{"id":107774,"date":"2023-10-13T17:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=107774"},"modified":"2023-10-13T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:55:52","slug":"22-09-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=107774","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just Canceled My Subscription,\u2019 \u2018Disgusting\u2019: Readers Revolt at New York Times War Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018Just Canceled My Subscription,\u2019 \u2018Disgusting\u2019: Readers Revolt at New York Times War Coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ira Stoll<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Filipino Worker Injured in Rescue Operation, 5 Others Missing in Israel<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0has greeted the Hamas terrorist onslaught against Israel that killed more than 1,000 with a thermometer-like chart depicting a competition between \u201cIsraeli and Palestinian conflict-related deaths,\u201d as if Israeli children and grandmothers murdered in cold blood were somehow morally equivalent to Israel\u2019s self-defense killings of terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n

One former\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0columnist, Max Fisher, celebrated the appearance of the game-show style graphic on the newspaper\u2019s website home page. \u201cA sign of how much US popular and journalistic attitudes have changed,\u201d Fisher\u00a0posted<\/a>\u00a0on X\/Twitter. \u201cI did this exact chart at Vox during the 2014 war and got screamed at for weeks. David Frum accused me of agitating for murder of Jews. Ted Cruz condemned. Now it\u2019s on the NYT HP without a blip.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not entirely without a blip. One\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reader, David Rusenko,\u00a0posted<\/a>, \u201cJust canceled my @nytimes subscription. Shockingly biased coverage on the front page right now. All photos of damage or injury are Palestinian, and photos representing Israel are of tanks, the iron dome, and people hiding safely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rusenko went on: \u201cZero mention of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Israeli civilians and the gleeful filming as their bodies are paraded around the streets. And to add insult to injury, they have the gall of featuring a graph of the relative deaths from the last 15 years, implying that either the attack was justified or minimizing the current deaths. Disgusting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) hasn\u2019t left the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0off the hook. Cruz\u00a0retweeted<\/a>\u00a0radio host Mark Levin\u2019s cautionary words: \u201cWatch the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, which covered up the Holocaust while millions of Jews were being exterminated. Watch how it turns on the Israeli Jews as Israel acts to wipe out Hamas. Watch how most of the rest of the media line up behind it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The senator also\u00a0warned<\/a>, \u201cHamas uses civilians as human shields. When Israel strikes back, the useful idiots at the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and CNN will denounce Israel for murdering civilians. Don\u2019t believe the lies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At least in the initial coverage, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u2018 main errors have been more of moral equivalence than outright denouncing Israel. But there was some of the latter, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0staff editorial<\/a>\u00a0denounced Israel for cutting off electricity to Hamas-controlled Gaza and lectured Israel about international law. \u201cAlready the Israeli government is cutting off power and water to Gaza, and it ordered a siege to starve Hamas of resources. This tactic, if it continues, will be an act of collective punishment,\u201d the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0editorial said. \u201cAll sides involved in the conflict are bound by international law, and it is important to note that violations by one side do not permit violations by another.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The same editorial concluded with a call to \u201cwork toward an end to the cycle of violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of a \u201ccycle of violence\u201d doesn\u2019t accurately apply to the situation in Israel. Everyone outside the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0realizes that, from the left-of-center Israel Policy Forum (\u201cThere Is No Cycle of Violence<\/a>\u201c) to the right-of-center Middle East Forum (\u201ccycle of violence<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 implies a moral equivalence between the killing of Israeli civilians and Palestinian Arab terrorists. It confuses the arsonist with the fire department.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Times<\/em>\u00a0readers complained online about an imbalance, with the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0highlighting more pictures of suffering Palestinians than of suffering Israelis. \u201cThe NYT coverage is an absolute travesty. I\u2019m embarrassed that it took me this long to cancel my subscription. I only wish I could cancel it multiple times,\u201d Justin Reidy\u00a0posted<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other readers took to social media to complain, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yuri Sagalov\u00a0wrote<\/a>: \u201cNYT has 16 photos on the home page attached to this article. Scroll through them. 11 of them are of the action in Gaza. Of the 5 about Israel, one shows a dog that was rescued. None show or even *hint* at the gruesomeness of the civilian murders of the past 24-48 hours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli government has openly struggled with decisions about releasing gruesome photos of suffering Israelis, apparently balancing the risk that they might be seen as disrespectful or demoralizing with the need to accurately portray the horrors of what happened. Hamas, on the other hand, has enthusiastically promoted images of Palestinian suffering as a kind of cause-advancing publicity of supposed Israeli brutality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo disgusted with @nytimes coverage of the terror in Israel that I am giving up Wordle. It means nothing to them but I won\u2019t support them in any way,\u201d\u00a0said one<\/a>, drawing a reply of: \u201cAgree. NYT coverage sucks. I\u2019m going elsewhere for my news. WTF was going on earlier today where the photos on the landing page were 80% of the damage in Gaza and 20% of the damage in Israel?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ira Stoll<\/strong> was managing editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Forward\u00a0and North American editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular\u00a0Algemeiner\u00a0feature, can be found\u00a0<\/em>here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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