While Iranian state television and the IRNA agency immediately attribute the incident to an “Israeli-American attack,” the Israeli military spokesperson Nadav Shoshani urges caution. He emphasizes that both Israel and the US must carefully investigate the incident first, as no operations in that area are known to them. Yet this is precisely where the dangerous paradox of modern reporting becomes evident. Why, in this case, do people blindly trust media whose lack of credibility is factually proven?
In hardly any other country in the world is the press censored as massively as under mullah rule. Reporters Without Borders ranks Iran 176th out of 180 in the press freedom index—meaning the regime even ranks behind the Palestinian-controlled territories at 163. When unverified propaganda from violent rulers carries more weight than the painstaking verification by rule-of-law states, journalism has abandoned its core standards. Whoever sells local reports from areas without press freedom as facts is engaging in a form of intellectual capitulation. It is time to refocus on the truth before the visual violence of staged images finally...
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