News of Al Jazeera “journalist” Anas Al-Sharif’s death in a targeted Israeli strike prompted a wave of mournful mainstream media coverage. CNN’s Brian Stelter led his “Reliable Sources” newsletter with the story on Monday—subject line “Al Jazeera in mourning”—quoting a colleague who described Al-Sharif as “a household name for many in the Arabic-speaking world” who had documented “the horrors that we are seeing in the Gaza Strip.”
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