Atrocious reporting from NewstalkZB

By Lucy Rogers

NewstalkZB reported today that Amnesty found that Hamas committed genocide on October 7 2023: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/mass-killing-of-civilians-on-october-7-amounted-to-the-crime-against-humanity-of-extermination/

I am glad to see that Amnesty caught up eventually, but I was appalled by the following sentence at the very conclusion of the article:

“Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza has killed at least 70,369 people, according to figures from the territory’s health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.”

Gaza’s health ministry is Hamas, i.e. the organisation that Amnesty found guilty of genocide in the very same article. The article deliberately omits that.

I think NewstalkZB reshares a lot of garbage when its own reporting is of higher quality. It should reconsider the impact that stuff like this has on its number of subscribers.