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Leaked NYTimes memo shows pro-genocide bias is even worse than we thought
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The Intercept reports:
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.
The New York Times’ management encouraged its staff to use the word “terrorists” (as opposed to “fighters” or “militants”) when referring to Palestinian military actions such as the October 7 al-Aqsa Storm raid, but never in reference to Israeli massacres of civilians. Like all other US mainstream outlets, the Times has “reserved terms like ‘slaughter,’ ‘massacre,’ and ‘horrific’ almost exclusively for (the handful of) Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians, rather than for (the vastly larger number of) Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli attacks.” This kind of bias has been reported for many years by IfAmericansKnew.org, which has cited studies showing that each Israeli death gets dozens or hundreds of times as much NYT coverage as each Palestinian death.
In today’s woke environment, it’s socially acceptable to blame the Times’ biased coverage on “white racism.” According to the woke interpretation, the Times’ management is made up of whites who order their somewhat darker-skinned staff to side with the white Israeli settlers against the brown-skinned Palestinians. Reports of a rebellion by ethnically-diverse NYT staff against their rabidly pro-Israel white management have been circulating since October 7, and it is widely assumed that whoever has been leaking NYT secrets to The Intercept probably has Global South ancestry and non-lily-white skin.
Though it’s OK to blame white racism for biased NYT coverage of Palestine, anybody who blames Jewish racism (i.e. anti-goyism) will quickly be labeled a racist themselves! This despite the fact that everyone knows that The New York Times has been a totally Jewish-controlled operation since its founding, and that its rabid bias in favor of the genocidal Jewish State has gotten more extreme over the years. Anyone who doubts that the Jews who run the NYT and the rest of mainstream media are deliberately skewing their coverage to protect their beloved Jewish State needs to read Jewish ex-NYT-journalist Philip Weiss’s “Do Jews Dominate in American Media? And So What If We Do?”
Nobody is allowed to touch this third-rail topic in Western media. But Iranian media is another story. That’s why I try to make a point of mentioning it on Press TV interviews, including last night’s. Below is a rough transcript.
Press TV News Review
Joining us now for the program is Scott Bennett, former U.S.Army Psychological Warfare Officer from San Francisco, California, and Kevin Barrett, editor at Veterans Today joining us out is Sadia Morocco. Gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you both to the program here. Always a pleasure to check in with both of you. I guess I will start with yo