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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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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't even think about the recent rape stories, my mind went straight for the Iraq war.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The rape stories were absolutely massive in manufacturing consent for israels Genocide. Israel denied a UN forensic investigation into their fake rape accusations. We now know that those were works of fiction, mostly from ZAKA which made up the 40 beheaded babies. But then right when support for israels Genocide hit a low, Jeffrey Gettleman teamed up with two israeli ex IDF soldiers to write a massive propaganda piece.

Almost every other major Western owned supposedly credible propaganda outlet copy pasted it despite glaring problems being pointed out shortly after its release. Reuters The Guardian, Wapo, You name it and they were manufacturing consent for Genocide. There was no evidence anywhere, but it didn't matter. Israel got enough public support to start massacring Palestinians again.

This article from The Intercept contained a sentence that summarized it very well: Netanyahu’s War on Truth - Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians

At the center of Israel’s information warfare campaign is a tactical mission to dehumanize Palestinians and to flood the public discourse with a stream of false, unsubstantiated, and unverifiable allegations.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminded me of the dead babies in incubators. What a classic, it's true that we are in the era of remakes!

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dead babies in incubators you say? That's the IDF special

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget about burning babies, another Zionist special!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/palestinian-boy-mohammed-abu-khdeir-burned-alive

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/7/31/palestinian-baby-burned-to-death-in-settler-attack

https://mondoweiss.net/2018/06/settlers-celebrate-palestinian/

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-07-16/ty-article-magazine/testimonies-from-the-censored-massacre-at-deir-yassin/0000017f-e364-d38f-a57f-e77689930000

And putting babies in ovens, something that the Zionists keep accusing Palestinians of doing over and over and over again! (You might have heard this claim now but they have been saying the same thing for decades - repeat a lie often enough and it becomes truth).

[–] snek@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And just when you think you've seen the worst of it...

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't find the baby in the oven one, but it's out there somewhere if you want even worse. It did happen during Zionist raids on Palestinian villages.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same here, lol. It's been a long time since the NYT was a reliable news source, especially with regards to anything involving the Middle East.