A July 29 Guardian article “Famine under way in Gaza, UN-backed experts say“, in the outlet’s morning newsletter, used a Reuters photo.
However, it turns out that the original Reuters caption of the photo, from July 24, (on Reuters site) explains that the boy was suffering from cerebral palsy, a pre-existing condition which causes digestive issues, and weight loss.
So, in order to advance their desired narrative of mass (Israeli-caused) starvation in Gaza, editors deceptively changed the Reuters caption so that the child’s pre-existing condition causing his severe malnourishment wouldn’t be revealed.
We complained to the Guardian’s readers’ editor two days ago, but haven’t received a reply.
The Guardian’s manipulation of that photo caption was first revealed in an investigation by The Free Press which shows eleven other examples of viral photos of children alleged by various mainstream outlets to be suffering from starvation, but who, in fact, had serious pre-existing conditions which help explain their emancipated appearance.
The FP journalists were clear that all the facts they gathered about the children’s conditions was open-source information – meaning that reporters, if they wanted to do serious fact-checking about the children in question, could have also discovered the truth about the real cause of their emaciated appearance.
The fact that they chose not to highlights the ideologically-inspired agenda which drives so much reporting of the war caused by Hamas’s antisemitic massacre on Oct. 7th, 2023.
