In City Journal, Eitan Fischberger reports on the alarming number of Hamas terrorists who simultaneously work as “journalists”. This advances Hamas’ strategy of shaping the global narrative by using Western news media as disseminators of its propaganda. Policymakers and media outlets, Fischberger warns, would do well to apply skepticism towards any report emanating from Gaza.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.