CNN, the once popular international cable network, and the prestigious New York Times, like the State of Israel, will never enjoy the legitimacy they once enjoyed on the world stage. The Intercept published a story revealing an internal CNN directive acknowledging that all of the network's news on Gaza and Israel was sent to CNN's Jerusalem bureau.

Israeli military observers insisted that CNN should write about Israeli bombs as “explosions” attributed to no one “so that the IDF would consider accepting or denying responsibility”