An Aug. 22 WorldNetDaily article by Drew Zahn details how Michael Savage’s website “was forced to shut down for nearly an hour” due to a “computer hacker, who had snuck into the webpage’s server.” Zahn added, “The website’s repair crew told WND the hacker had broken in through a feedback portal, requiring the site to be shut down before any further damage was done.”
What Zahn doesn’t report: Savage’s website is hosted by WND. That’s a conflict of interest that should have been disclosed, but WND frequently violates journalistic ethics by failing to offer such disclosure.
Zahn also lists a number of people who appear with Savage on a list of people banned from Britain. Conspicuously absent from Zahn’s list is Mike Guzovsky, aka Yekutiel Ben Yaacov, a one-time source for WND reporter Aaron Klein who is a sympathizer of the outlawed far-right Kach/Kahane Chai movement in Israel. WND whitewashed Guzovsky’s identity, changing the description of him from a “extremist” to a “nationalist,” and Klein himself has responded by touting Guzofsky as merely a patriotic Jew who leads “workshops to teach self-defense to Jews” and fails to acknowledge Kahane’s violent history or his condoning of fellow Kahanist Baruch Goldstein’s 1994 massacre of 29 Arabs at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Indeed, WND has not mentioned Guzovsky’s name, let alone his placement on that list, since May 16, even though WND has done numerous articles on Savage’s ban that reference other members of the list.