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Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” (theintercept.com)
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The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.

The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by internally displaced Palestinians, who fled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paper’s deference to Israeli narratives.

Almost immediately after the October 7 attacks and the launch of Israel’s scorched-earth war against Gaza, tensions began to boil within the newsroom over the Times coverage. Some staffers said they believed the paper was going out of its way to defer to Israel’s narrative on the events and was not applying even standards in its coverage. Arguments began fomenting on internal Slack and other chat groups.

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[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There goes the last of NYT integrity

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically the very last of it would be gone if NYT staff didn't give all of this info to The Intercept.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

NYT made sure to harass their Arab employees to find out who's leaking this info:

Union Accuses NYT Of Racially Targeting Staff In Leak Probe Over Paper’s Israel Reporting

In a letter sent Friday to Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, Susan DeCarava, president of NewsGuild of New York, said that union-backed journalists who raised concerns about the paper’s approach to covering Gaza were being “targeted for their national origin, ethnicity and race, creating an ominous chilling-effect across the newsroom and effectively silencing necessary and critical internal discussion.”

The Times launched an internal leak probe, which was first reported on by Vanity Fair, after The Intercept published an exposé in January revealing that the newspaper’s flagship podcast, “The Daily,” had canceled a planned episode of a Times investigative report alleging Hamas militants “weaponized sexual violence” when they attacked Israel on Oct. 7. According to the exposé, the episode was shelved after the December report could not pass a fact check and had faced questions of credibility from staff and the public.

In response to the exposé, the Times’ leadership launched a weekslong investigation to find the alleged whistleblower who leaked information to The Intercept. In her letter, DeCarava said that guild members “asserted their protected right to union representation” when they were called into meetings with management’s investigators.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago

Even more evidence that the journalists at NYT are fighting back against the corporate leadership.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I thought whistleblowers were meant to have immunity. Also, the assumption that only people of Arab descent would find the treatment of Palestinians detestable... Absolutely bonkers.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Style guides similar to this are pretty standard. This much bias in them is not.

[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

They can't lose their integrity if they never had it in the first place