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Ink Stained Wretches

The Interview: Lahav Harkov on News Coverage of the Israel-Gaza War

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, Eliana flies solo and sits down with Jewish Insider’s Lahav Harkov for a conversation about her path through Israeli and American media — and what the press got wrong and (less often) right about the Israel-Gaza war. Wretch on! If you have a story you want to discuss with us, email us at wretches@nebulouspodcasts dot com. Show Notes: New York Magazine: Everything We Know About the Gaza City Hospital Blast  The Washington Post: Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers  Reuters: Gaza mother's hopes for return of long-jailed son dashed The Atlantic: The War That Would Not End  60 Minutes: Freed Israeli hostages Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel, Tal Shoham describe horrors of being held captive by Hamas  CNN: Hersh Goldberg-Polin: The ‘happy-go-lucky’ Israeli-American who became a symbol of Israel’s enduring hostage heartbreak  The Atlantic: What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel  Tablet: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is there anything you would have done differently?

0:02.0

We've reported a true story.

0:04.0

Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq.

0:10.0

Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past.

0:16.0

Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hatton.

0:18.0

Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. Hi, I'm Eliana Johnson,

0:25.5

flying solo this week without co-host Chris Steyerwalt. Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where

0:33.1

typically we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media.

0:38.4

However, this week I am excited to welcome Jewish Insiders, Lahav Harkov, to the podcast.

0:47.7

Lahav is the senior political correspondent of Jewish Insider, and she is an American is an American Israeli, Israeli-American.

0:57.2

I think the dominant, you know, Israeli-American and American-American journalists covering Israel and

1:04.1

Israeli-American relations. And I'm going to let Lahav give, you know, talk a little bit about

1:10.8

her background.

1:11.6

But the two of us have been talking about doing this for like six or eight months to talk about American news coverage of the Israel Gaza War.

1:21.4

And we're going to talk about a bunch of articles.

1:23.2

So depart from our traditional format.

1:25.7

But Lahav, thank you so much for taking the time. Great to have you.

1:29.9

Thanks for having me on. I love the podcast. Thank you. Wonderful to have you. So I want to start

1:36.7

just asking you a little bit about yourself. You were raised in the U.S. and you live in Israel now, how did you end up over there and how did you get

1:49.6

into journalism? And then I wanted to ask you, you know, you obviously grew up in the States,

1:56.0

but live in Israel. How do those like dual identities, if you consider them, you know, that sort of inform

2:03.5

the reporting that you do now? So the answer to your first two questions is basically my

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