The Guardian’s readers’ editor responds to speculation on various websites and blogs that a report, accompanied by photographs, of an attack on a Red Cross ambulance (which prompted Melanie Phillips to write this entry hailing the downfall of the “mainstream media”) in July this year was a hoax, as alleged by various websites including pro-Israeli lobby sites known for crying bias. While there are some inconsistencies in the way the story was reported across the media, the fact that an ambulance was attacked by Israeli munitions still remains.
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“While there are some inconsistencies in the way the story was reported across the media, the fact that an ambulance was attacked by Israeli munitions still remains.” Only the facts have been changed to make it more interesting.
Assalaamu alaikum,
Sorry to change the subject, but did you read Martin Amis’s three-part “The Age of Horrorism” in Sunday’s Observer? I found it really obnoxious and ignorant; has there been any reaction to it?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk.....32,00.html