“Water Apartheid” Was Really Just a Burst Pipe, But the Media Don’t Care - by Daniel Pomerantz

...In short, The Independent knew the truth but nonetheless chose to write an emotionally suggestive piece of essentially libelous fiction and then published it as if it were journalism. The IBT, it seems, didn’t even bother to learn the truth at all.

Daniel Pomerantz..
Honest Reporting..
16 June '16..

Mark Twain supposedly said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” and that is exactly what happened today.

The Independent, International Business Times, Radio New Zealand and the Times of London have all picked up a blatantly incorrect Al Jazeera story.

In an outrageous example closer to fiction writing than journalism, The Independent incorrectly portrays Israel as intentionally denying water to Palestinians in the West Bank.

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