mcfarland, a former defense apartment official in the reagan administration and fred francis, former pentagon correspondent for nbz now with the firm 15 seconds.com. as news organizations grapple with covering this, how much impact is social media having? >> social media is the new bloody battlefield for this conflict. they show disturbing and gruesome images without a filter. and journalists are doing it, too, without having an editor to say, this is too much. >> k.t., i've noticed a turn in the last 48 hours especially, a lot of commentators now saying israel easily winning the conflict on the battlefield but losing the media war. true? >> sure. hamas understands that it's never going to beat israel militarily. so the only place it can fight and win is in the public relations scope. what are they doing? look at the split screen you see. you see an israeli official having to defend the deaths of the palestinian children and then you see the palestinian children. what you don't see is the media saying to a hamas spokesman is why are you putting women and children in the places where

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and fred francis, former pentagon correspondent for nbc now with the firm www. www.15seconds. >> how much impact is sole media have? >> that is the battlefield of the conflict unlike 2008 or 2012 now it is taking on this life of propaganda for the palestinians as they show the disturbing and gruesome images without a filter and journalists are doing it, too, without having an editor to say, this is too much. >> k.t., i notice in the last 48 hours people are saying israel is winning the conflict but losing the war in the media. >> hamas understands it will never boat israel so the only place do win is with the public relations. look at this screen, an israeli officials defending the deaths of the palestinian children and you see the palestinian children. what you do not see is the media saying to hamas, why are you putting children and women in the places where you know they will be killed? >> some have asked because there are not many hamas spokesman on the air. >> that is why, they put the picture of the dead children, and the israelis, they do not put the we p

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