There goes the last of NYT integrity
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Technically the very last of it would be gone if NYT staff didn't give all of this info to The Intercept.
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.
Even more evidence that the journalists at NYT are fighting back against the corporate leadership.
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Style guides similar to this are pretty standard. This much bias in them is not.
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Friendly request to put NYT on the ban list for propaganda outlets
Just the other day I was on this stupid website getting attacked because I dared to say that NYT was not a particularly reliable outlet, and that they should be taken with extreme skepticism if they use anonymous sources.
I was told five months ago by a user here when debunking the NYT's fake rape article that "I should learn a thing a thing or two about media literacy". Because "the New York Times is highly reputable! Unlike those fake news outlets like Mondoweiss and TheGrayzone!"
That did not age well.
I didn't even think about the recent rape stories, my mind went straight for the Iraq war.
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.
Reminded me of the dead babies in incubators. What a classic, it's true that we are in the era of remakes!
Dead babies in incubators you say? That's the IDF special
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/
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).
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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.
See this is why I actually hate that people are pushing that bullshit ground news site so hard.
People will become reliant on what it tells them about a publication which does not mean an accurate representation. But then they can parade around bragging they know what the true middle is and are so enlightened.
Plus they take a subscription fee however they have no journalists and don't pay back to the publications they scrape from, but instead let you follow a link to their site at least to get some revenue.
The run a news link aggregator with a "bias" catcher on it that's pre-determined by tags for an algorithm to parse. It's just for libertarians to feel like they are winning against the news I swear.
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Gonna go on a slippery slope and say that if they can't be trusted to properly report on a genocide, their other reported material should also not be held to any decent standard because there is clearly a lack of guidance and internal process to prevent poor media writing.
Not to mention there are so many better sources and OSINT stuff these days. Reuters and AP by themselves already provide the sourcing for most of these media outlets, might as well bypass the paraphrasing and potential for bias.
"Real journalism is publishing something that someone else does not want published; the rest is just public relations."
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The media later: why doesn't anyone trust us and believe in wild conspiracy theories?
They destroy their own credibility and then cry foul when the extreme right uses this to spread hate propaganda.
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NYT to reporters: "Please refrain from using language that accurately describes the situation"
"In order to maintain objective journalistic principles!"
This should have been obvious to anyone watching. Their coverage was tripping all over itself to avoid accurate descriptions of the atrocities ongoing in Gaza.
That would be a quality black humor skit. A reporter walks down the street and finds a blow up torso. "This guy must've fallen out a window or something". He continue walking and sees people getting lined up. "Just rounding up some thieves". As he passes they all get shot. "what was that?". Add a few more horrific images and eventually the reporter finishes his report with "as you can see, no violence is happening in Gaza".
Not just them either.
My personal hate is the word "settler", which invokes an image of somebody taking previously useless land and making it fit for human habitation, but apparently has been redefined within the borders of Palestine to mean "armed invader".
Don't hear much about those Russian "settlers" visiting Ukraine...
My personal hate is the word “settler”, which invokes an image of somebody taking previously useless land and making it fit for human habitation, but apparently has been redefined within the borders of Palestine to mean “armed invader”.
North American Natives probably resent that sentence....
It is very rare for no humans to make use of land at all. Whenever someone "settles" it, they are taking it away from someone else. Usually force gets involved at some point, even for nomadic tribes. It's why colonialism has a bad rep these days.
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Settlers have always been invaders. It’s just that it seems different in this context because we’re watching it happen instead of reading about it in text books
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Oh, the free world at it again.
When a country populated with brown people is too weak, it's bullied to not arm itself or pursue any other kind of strategically significant development, in economy and society too.
When it's sufficiently strong and useful not to be bullied, it can do anything up to genocide, and not even have its hand slapped.
I'm becoming too sympathetic to Iran, Hezbollah and all that guerilla-mafia network over time. They look scary, but commit fewer crimes than people condemning them. Naturally "crime" here is not "crime as judged by a court", but something of the "theft", "murder", "torture", "rape" kind.
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I can see pushing to avoid the use of genocide and maybe even ethnic cleansing. But occupied territories? What the fuck else could they be considered?
And for the record, I think Israel's actions are pretty clearly ethnic cleansing at the very least.
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There is a lot of Western guilt about failing the Jewish people in WW2. Seems that this extends to turning a blind eye when it comes to Israel.
Always has been. Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel are intrinsically linked to anti-semitism.
There is a lot of Western guilt about failing the Jewish people in WW2.
Not really. Western ruling elites supported Zionism after WW2 for the exact same reason they supported it before WW2 - to have a place they can dump the (so-called) "Jewish Problem." The west is no less white supremacist and antisemitic today than they were in 1824 - the west is just desperate to distance itself from the atrocities it's colonialist logic resulted in during WW2.
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Whenever you're wondering why fake news took off so easilly and swindled so many to believe in complete total bollocks, consider the possibility that "liberal" newsmedia like the New York Times has long been pushing propaganda, weakening trust in the authoritativeness of the Press and in practice plowing the field that far right news outlets sowed.
It would've been a lot harder for the likes of Fox News to manipulate the political beliefs of Americans if the likes of the New York Times hadn't been doing "opinion forming" in favour of specific political idelogies rather than Journalism since well before Fox News came to the scene.
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The new york times approves of the genocide. Why else restrict the use of the word?
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Manufacturing consent.
Just like they avoided honest journalism this whole time.
This conflict has been great in seeing which media outlets are bought out by the establishment and are propaganda
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I was discussing Western media's coverage of the genocide and my cousin said that he thinks nyt is a very "unbiased" source. Fucking hilarious.
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The memo... “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.”
I think she meant May.
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Ryan Grim is doing great work.
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