New York Times Launches Leak Investigation Over Report on Its Israel-Gaza Coverage
New York Times Launches Leak Investigation Over Report on Its Israel-Gaza Coverage
Management has questioned staffers, including Daily producers, after The Intercept revealed internal debate over a yet-to-air episode on Hamas weaponizing sexual violence. Such a probe is highly unusual, say staffers, one of whom dubbed it a “witch hunt.”
The Intercept: “Between the Hammer and the Anvil” The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
Israel promised it had extraordinary amounts of eyewitness testimony. “Investigators have gathered ‘tens of thousands’ of testimonies of sexual violence committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, according to the Israeli police, including at the site of a music festival that was attacked,” Schwartz, Gettleman, and Stella reported on December 4. Those testimonies never materialized.
“It doesn’t make any sense,” said Abdush’s sister, that in a short timespan “they raped her, slaughtered her, and burned her?” Speaking about the rape allegation, her brother-in-law said: “The media invented it.”
“There is nothing,” Schwartz said she was told. “There was no collection of evidence from the scene.”
The Intercept: New York Times Puts “Daily” Episode on Ice Amid Internal Firestorm Over Hamas Sexual Violence Article As the Times faces scrutiny for its coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, it has capitulated to the pro-Israel media watchdog CAMERA.
Maybe NYT should question how a Zionist ideologue with no experience was put in charge of this important story, or how her uncorroborated opinion piece got past the editors and sold to the public as real news.
But of course they wont, and the damage is already done. Genocide deniers will be pointing to this discredited article in perpetuity.
Say Mistakes Were Made, fire the pre-designated fall gal, switch a few chairs around, and move on to the next Big Lie. This was no more a mistake than the Iraq WMDs was.
Its not too late to put a huge correction warning at the top of the article with an apology
To steal an infamous quote... Israel lied, people died.