Karl Pfeifer exposed Israeli anti-Zionist Professor Moshe Zuckerman’s claim that “400,000 civilians” had been killed in Gaza - made during in an interview with Deutschlandradio - here. An editor at the radio station now says it was a “bad mistake.”

There’s more in the Jerusalem Post:

Vienna-based veteran journalist and media critic Karl Pfeifer slammed Deutschlandradio for its interview with Israeli historian and sociologist Moshe Zuckermann on Friday. Zuckermann told a widely-heard radio program that Israel had killed 400,000 Palestinians during the Gaza conflict.

At the time of interview, the reported number of deaths was about 400.

Speaking to the Post, Pfeifer criticized the radio interviewer, Birgit Kolkmann, for failing to “interrupt” Zuckermann.

“Any serious journalist would have asked the question” regarding the accuracy of the number of deaths, he said.

Pfeifer said Deutschlandradio only corrected its on-line transcript eight hours after the broadcast and he demanded that Kolkmann be sacked.

Thomas Wische, an editor with Deutschlandradio, told the Post that Zuckermann’s comment was a “bad mistake.” He said he spoke to Zuckermann following the revelation and that Zuckermann had been embarrassed by it.

Wische added that Kolkmann “did not notice” the error, and there is no “bad intention or ideology” behind the broadcast of 400,000 deaths.

But the broadcast can be heard on-line, and Wische said Deutschlandradio would not be modifying the live broadcast.

The emphasis in the last sentence is mine. This is astounding, isn’t it? An apparently reputable outlet describes a heinous lie as an error and then continues to allow listeners to hear it via an audio stream.

Until Deutschlandradio corrects the mistake by removing the audio stream, there is no reason, really, for anyone to believe that it was a mistake.