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CNN anchor apologizes for saying freed Israeli hostages were 'treated better' than Gazans (nypost.com)

submitted 3 days ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologized Monday after claiming that Israeli hostages freed from Hamas captivity were “treated better” than Gazans — remarks that provoked furious backlash from Israel supporters.

The longtime international correspondent retracted her statement on air just hours after Hamas released the final 20 living hostages under a cease-fire agreement brokered by the United States and Egypt.

Amanpour’s mea culpa came after she earlier told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that the hostages “were probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had.”

“That was insensitive, and it was wrong,” Amanpour said during a broadcast on Monday.

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[–] thakritik@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

But she's not wrong tho

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

You try to keep hostages alive.

You try to keep victims of genocide dead.

The math works out.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

remarks that provoked furious backlash from Israel supporters

Fuck israel supporters

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 13 points 3 days ago

Nobody wants to do that.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago

She wasn't wrong. IDF got so salty when they were told they couldn't rape anymore. Didn't stop em much though

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Was she wrong? I would have assumed the same thing she assumed.

Even with how they were treated, how does it actually stack up to the treatment of gazans?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago

She was not wrong, it was completely factual. But she was harassed by the Zionist lobby group ''Honest"Reporting' and then pressured by her Zionist bosses at CNN to cave.

Speaking basic truths on Israel's barbarity is not allowed in Western media. Only Palestinians may be dehumanised.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

I don't think her apology was because of whether she was factually wrong or not.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure since she was referring to massacred Gazans, the still living and now returned hostages did indeed have it better. But of course the billionaire news network owners can’t have her speaking truth to power. Fuck CNN.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And for those upset it's nypost https://www.jpost.com/international/article-870397

Not that jpost much better

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like NYPost for these posts, because they are so pro-Israel that they sometimes publish these headlines without the propaganda sauce on them, thinking anti-Israel folks will interpret it the same way.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but world comm didn't cause so put link I posted there here.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They are kind of right because NYPost is a rag outlet. I just find the headline funny.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Yean I know, 90% of the time that's correct. Of course all the other major publications are headed the same direction