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Since Israel launched its war on Gaza, a long and growing list of news outlets have fired, canceled, or otherwise sidelined reporters who criticized Israel.
MSNBC canceled The Mehdi Hasan Show, arguably the only cable news show regularly willing to question Israeli policy. The Los Angeles Times barred 38 reporters from covering Gaza after they signed an open letter criticizing media coverage of the war. The New York Times stopped commissioning the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator Mona Chalabi, leaving her to self-publish her work unpaid on Instagram.
Meanwhile, CNN runs all of its Gaza stories past a Jerusalem-based bureau that operates under the shadow of the Israeli Military Censor, and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently sparked outrage by comparing Arabs and Muslims to insects and spiders.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has found that at least 88 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza by IDF forces. Just this morning, photojournalist Mohammad Yaghi was killed alongside his wife and children by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza.
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