As ticked off as I am about the initial coverage of the Al Ahli Hospital explosion, I'm equally ticked off at myself. I'm supposed to be an educated person. Why did I not stop to think that "Gaza health official" meant "Hamas health official" and that in any case a "health official" is not your go-to source for technical military informa…
As ticked off as I am about the initial coverage of the Al Ahli Hospital explosion, I'm equally ticked off at myself. I'm supposed to be an educated person. Why did I not stop to think that "Gaza health official" meant "Hamas health official" and that in any case a "health official" is not your go-to source for technical military information (like how an explosion got started)?
I did go around all day thinking "we don't know yet, we don't know yet", but in the part of my brain that doesn't think in sentences, I was preparing for Israel to be the perpetrator.
Turns out eternal vigilance is also the price of not screwing up the critical-thinking thing. And the more emotional and outside-the-pale a situation is, the more careful we need to be. (Yeah, "we"; I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.)
Something tells me we'll have plenty more chances to practice.
As ticked off as I am about the initial coverage of the Al Ahli Hospital explosion, I'm equally ticked off at myself. I'm supposed to be an educated person. Why did I not stop to think that "Gaza health official" meant "Hamas health official" and that in any case a "health official" is not your go-to source for technical military information (like how an explosion got started)?
I did go around all day thinking "we don't know yet, we don't know yet", but in the part of my brain that doesn't think in sentences, I was preparing for Israel to be the perpetrator.
Turns out eternal vigilance is also the price of not screwing up the critical-thinking thing. And the more emotional and outside-the-pale a situation is, the more careful we need to be. (Yeah, "we"; I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.)
Something tells me we'll have plenty more chances to practice.