Amid the internal battle over the New
York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a
set of directives.
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
displaced Palestinians expelled 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... READ MORE https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/
The analysis found that, as of November 24, the New York Times
had described Israeli deaths as a “massacre” on 53 occasions and
those of Palestinians just once. The ratio for the use of
“slaughter” was 22 to 1, even as the documented number of
Palestinians killed climbed to around 15,000.
The latest Palestinian death toll estimate stands at more than
33,000, including at least 15,000 children — likely undercounts
due to Gaza’s collapsed health infrastructure and missing persons,
many of whom are believed to have died in the rubble left by
Israel’s attacks over the past six months... READ MORE https://theintercept.com/2024/01/09/newspapers-israel-palestine-bias-new-york-times/
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Read our complete coverage
Israel’s War on Gaza
Israel’s
2023 bombings and invasion of the Gaza Strip have cost thousands of
Palestinian lives and displaced countless others. But the war didn’t
start with Hamas’s October 7 attack. The Intercept’s coverage delves
into Israel’s occupation, how the U.S. government enables its
repression, and the free speech fight over pro-Palestine activism at
home. https://theintercept.com/collections/israel-palestine/
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