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The New York Times Coverage of the Israel-Hamas War: Random Errors or Endemic Malaise?

9 Oct 2024

And the source was the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, not “Palestinians.” Israel denied the report and produced a recording of a conversation between PIJ fighters who admitted that the failed launching had caused the explosion. [...] The Times admitted the error by erasing the paragraph that described the false comparison to Ukraine from its website, but without disclosing the correction. [...] The evidence did not match the Times’s claims either before or after the correction, and phrasing the correction as if the error had been a mere typo was also misleading. [...] The Times tried to conduct an internal investigation to find the leakers who felt that “the suffering of Gazans isn’t getting the same attention” – but the investigation ran up against the union, which alleged that “the company was targeting a group of staffers of Arab and Middle Eastern descent”. [...] The Undersecretary-General of the UN and the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict had also published a report about Hamas’s sexual crimes against Israeli women that reached the same conclusion: that “conflict- related sexual violence — including rape and gang-rape — occurred across multiple locations of Israel and the Gaza periphery during the attacks on 7 October 2023.” Sheryl Sa.

Authors

Judith Levy

Related Organizations

Bar-Ilan University
New York Times
Pages
9
Published in
Israel

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