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From a reporter’s perspective, it’s crazy she corrected him on air. You can establish that the UN commission inquiry and several human rights orgs found genocide occurred in Gaza. But to say it is “factually incorrect” is not the job, nor is it accurate. Disputed? Sure. If someone killed a child and her mom said “he murdered my son” on air, you wouldn’t correct them and say “well he actually hasn’t been convicted of murder.” Attribution is like the first lesson of jrn school.
This 30-second clip is taken out of context. El-Sayed was talking about the Mackinac Policy Conference, an annual gathering of policy pros and insiders that he argues brings together well-connected and powerful people and shuts most voters out of politics.