Burying All Sense of Context
While writers are free to focus on the experiences of one side, Wedeman’s report distorts the story by crossing multiple journalistic red lines. Readers are only introduced to residents of Gaza, without any attempt at balancing their experiences with those of Israelis suffering under the relentless rocket barrages fired from Gaza at Israel.
Speaking of which, only in the thirteenth paragraph does Wedeman make clear that the scenes of destruction and chaos he describes taking place in Gaza occur in the context of a conflict between Israel and Hamas, in which the latter has shot rockets at Israeli cities. Even then, the phrasing used misleads readers into thinking that Israel initiated the shooting: