Charlie Hurt notices something was missing from Washington Post’s story correction

“Fox and Friends Weekend” co-host Charlie Hurt lit into The Washington Post Wednesday, saying its social media post about an article covering claims about an alleged massacre missed the point.

In a post on X Tuesday, The Washington Post said its earlier versions of an article about an alleged incident where Israeli troops fired on Palestinians receiving relief supplies and a previous social media post “didn’t meet Post fairness standards” due to a failure to weigh Israeli denials of the incident. Hurt said the issue was accuracy, not whether the Post was fair to the Israeli military.

“The thing that baffles me about this more than anything is the actual correction. The idea would say it violates our fairness standards,” Hurt told “America’s Newsroom” co-hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. “No, it violated accuracy standards. The story was wrong. It wasn’t that it was unfair.”

WATCH:

“I really do think that so many of the problems in particular with the media on the left right now is that they look at everything in terms of who is winning and who is losing, what is fair and what is not fair,” Hurt, a former opinion editor with The Washington Times, continued. “Everything is from a perspective. Actually, why don’t you just do the work and tell us what’s accurate and focus on getting the story right, not getting it fair or unfair? Just focus on getting it right.”

Israel has carried out military operations in Gaza since Hamas carried out a deadly terrorist attack on multiple locations in southern Israel Oct. 7, 2023, that killed over 1,200 people. A study released in December by the Henry Jackson Society noted that media organizations often relied uncritically on data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, despite multiple errors.

“Everything that – every story they look at today is through the lens of some sort of their own partisan worldview,” Hurt said. “That’s how you wind up with wrong stories and the reason you got it wrong isn’t because it was unfair and gave too much heat to Israel, it is that it was inaccurate. You were wrong about it. Fix that.”

The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Latest posts by Harold Hutchison (see all)

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.