Much of the international media had reported with relative caution in the run up to the crisis. Unlike during previous voyages organized by the Free Gaza Movement, which is closely tied to the extremist International Solidarity Movement, reporters have avoided describing the passengers with the inaccurate designation 'human rights activists,' and instead used the somewhat more accurate descriptor 'pro-Palestinian.' (A notable exception is the Wall Street Journal and its reporter Charles Levinson, who grossly misled readers by describing the passengers as "peace activists" Time Magazine's Tony Karon likewise failed to remain objective, opting to cast Israel's statements, and not the words and deeds of the anti-Israel activists, as a "P.R. machine ... gone into overdrive" and engaged in explanation that 'few neutrals are likely to accept.')
Now that blood has been shed, that media caution seems to be dissolving."
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