They're not depicting death or blood or anything that the viewer might go like, oh, no, this is too much for me.

No, it's a child looking back at you.

This week, images of starving Palestinian children blanketed the media.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Ladstone.

And I'm Michael Lohinger.

A New York Times story about starvation in Gaza with a photo of an emaciated child was attacked

for failing to say that the child also had a pre-existing condition.

This is one child when hundreds of thousands of children are in different stages of malnutrition.

So you focus on mistakes to blur the main image

that you don't want anyone to see.

Plus, the all but forgotten inventor

of the first family sitcom.

Gertrude Berg was the first showrunner.

There was a national survey

where she came in the second most respected woman in America

after Eleanor Roosevelt.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Lowenger.

After two years of unrelentingly bad news coming out of Gaza, the coverage has suddenly taken on a new urgency.

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