He and his team saw it coming.
In late May, Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum issued a report about “Israel’s Imminent Attack on Iranian Nuclear Sites.” This wasn’t a matter of a lucky guess, or one of those instances in which people make all sorts of predictions and one of them happens to come true. It followed an extensive analysis of specific events that were underway, and war game simulation.
In the new episode of They Stand Corrected, he tells me:
“The way that we see the Israel-Iran conflict playing out has about a 95% accuracy rate for how we played that out.”
Yet some big mainstream news outlets still refuse to listen to him. He explains why, and discusses some of the biggest media fails he has seen.
“There's still sort of a media firewall which exists within some other media outlets, whether it be CNN, ABC, some of the mainstream network news, that are more interested in reporting around commentary on the story rather than the underlying elements of why one side is incorrect,” Gregg says. “And I I think that gradually, as media diversifies to new stream media, towards podcasts like yourself, that the audience will follow where the facts are rather than just going to traditional outlets which are reporting what they think is what's going on rather than what's actually going on.”
In this episode, you’ll hear about a particularly egregious act of journalistic bias by CNN, and a helpful explanation from a group called Honest Reporting. Also, why words from President Bill Clinton 30 years ago carry such important resonance today.
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