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Stop acting like the NYT is a credible source of news. They died a long time ago.
I donāt want to come across as supporting the NYT, but this sounds like the memo is a style guide against biased language which is pretty common.
News is supposed to give you information, not persuade you to take an opinion and normally a style guide helps do that in a consistent voice. Iād be interested in seeing the entire memo.
That being said it seems like the NYT does a poor job of following its own guidelines in presenting unbiased news.
The linked article makes very clear that style guides are common.
However, the specifics of this style guide also happen to follow pretty exactly how Israel likes things presented - there is no āPalestineā, they didnāt turn the Palestinians into ārefugeesā, they didnāt āslaughterā the 15000 children that they killed, with the opposite standard for the Palestinians.
That being said it seems like the NYT does a poor job of following its own guidelines in presenting unbiased news
I donāt have a copy of the entire style guide so I canāt comment on the specifics of how they intend to cover Israel. Could you share your copy of the style guide so we can have the specifics that you mentioned?
I just read the linked article.
Apparently you have a copy of the linked article that I donāt have access to since the article I read only has snippets of the style guide as reported by anonymous sources.
steer clear of the term ārefugee campsā to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous IsraeliāArab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.
It really doesnāt seem the guidance aims for not persuading you to take an opinion
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israelās war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms āgenocideā and āethnic cleansingā and to āavoidā using the phrase āoccupied territoryā when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.
While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paperās deference to Israeli narratives.
āI think itās the kind of thing that looks professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,ā said a Times newsroom source, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, of the Gaza memo.
The latest Palestinian death toll estimate stands at more than 33,000, including at least 15,000 children ā likely undercounts due to Gazaās collapsed health infrastructure and missing persons, many of whom are believed to have died in the rubble left by Israelās attacks over the past six months.
In the cases of describing āoccupied territoryā and the status of refugees in Gaza, the Times style guidelines run counter to norms established by the United Nations and international humanitarian law.
as each has a slightly different status.ā The United Nations, along with much of the world, considers Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem to be occupied Palestinian territories, seized by Israel in the 1967 ArabāIsraeli war.
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Iām amazed the Intercept is still in business.
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2024/the-intercept-is-running-out-of-cash
Itās happening to far too many journalism outlets, whether we agree with their messaging or not. Soon we will only have meganews.
Support independent journalism like TYT or Democracy Now.
This is why itās important for capitalists to buy things like Twitter and force the selling Tik Tok. These things threaten the monopoly on information.
In this case the founding doner walked away from a non-profit. But, I know what you mean, itās the price of technology
Incidental details tell only one story.
Fucking Spacerās Choice.
