Earlier today, Vox.com, which purportedly exists to boil down the facts into easy to digest explanations, published a post titled “What are Israel and Palestine? Why are they fighting?”
A Washington Free Beacon fact check of just the first of over two dozen pages found the Vox piece riddled with errors:
Four Pinocchios for Vox ‘Explainer’ on ‘Everything You Need to Know About Israel-Palestine’ http://t.co/BKJlEq5mSY
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/459114437287636992
https://twitter.com/MPeper/status/459122363011837952
That Free Beacon Israel/Palestinian thing on Vox is so damn funny.
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) April 23, 2014
It wasn’t funny to everybody. The author of the “Voxsplanation,” Zack Beauchamp, pointed out that the Free Beacon’s fact check didn’t … name a specific author:
https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/459094418042404864
Not exactly a sweeping defense of his “facts” in the Israel-Palestine piece at Vox.
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/459115778261143552
Motherfucker, you just got pantsed and your reaction is “why didn’t they put a name on it?” @zackbeauchamp
— RBe (@RBPundit) April 24, 2014
@RBPundit "Pantsed" That pretty well sums it up. Truth is hard. @zackbeauchamp
— BFilbert (@since1629) April 24, 2014
.@RBPundit @zackbeauchamp I'd be embarrassed to admit I was the one who wrote that crap at JuiceVox.
— realmyiq2xu2 (@realmyiq2xu2) April 24, 2014
@RBPundit @zackbeauchamp I suppose it's akin to asking if anyone got the license plate of the bus that hit you.
— marilyn maupin (@marilynmaupin) April 24, 2014
https://twitter.com/BwellGroup/status/459125368369057794
.@zackbeauchamp Oh, you wrote that steaming pile that got annihilated? LOL
— Jason B. Whitman, OD (@JasonBWhitman) April 23, 2014
.@zackbeauchamp pic.twitter.com/0Jbj09RmBB
— RINO Pundit (@RINOPundit) April 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/RyanLGustafson/status/459121416760082432
I feel sorry for you, @zackbeauchamp. You basically wrote a 5th grade book report and then got fact-checked by a tenured professor. #ouch
— Lefty Bollocks (@LeftyBollocks) April 24, 2014
@zackbeauchamp You should take a bow, Zack. Your piece is not the worst I have read on the subject. Very close, but not the worst.
— Dennis (@spongeworthy2) April 24, 2014
A possible reason the Free Beacon’s shredding of the Vox piece on Israel-Palestine listed “staff” instead of an individual author was offered:
@zackbeauchamp Or it took several people just to wade through all the inaccuracies.
— marilyn maupin (@marilynmaupin) April 23, 2014
Heh.