60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Oct. 7 Mass Rape
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Published 2024-05-08
A group of more than 60 journalism professors has written to The New York Times calling on the paper to commission an independent review of its report that members of Hamas committed widespread sexual violence on October 7. Numerous media outlets, as well as some of the paper’s own staff, have raised questions about the December 28 article headlined “Screams Without Words,” reported in part by a freelance Israeli journalist who had liked multiple posts on social media advocating for violence against Palestinians. The Times has even published subsequent reporting undercutting some of the key elements of the article, which was used by Israeli leaders and Western allies as justification for the brutal military campaign in Gaza that had already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians up to that point. “It was very troubling to professors of journalism to see such a shoddy article be published without a retraction or an investigation,” says Rutgers media studies professor Deepa Kumar, one of the signatories, author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire. She also says that as an academic, she is troubled by the mainstream media’s depiction of student encampments as places of hate and violence. “For those of us who have been to these encampments, we know that the atmosphere there is peaceful until the police show up and start to create chaos. … These are fantastic spaces of learning.”
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All Comments (21)
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Finally Journalism professors speakbup about the NYT and it's lies
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Give credit to GrayZone for debunking the NYT baseless story.
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Whatever Israel accuses others of doing, Israel is doing. according to history.
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I feel like a fool. I believed that article. It messed with my emotions so badly, I cried every day for weeks. Many people use that story as justification for any and all violence against Palestinian civilians. The New York Times, once again, is complicit in genocide. It has a long history -- from the Ukraine famine that killed millions, to fear mongering about accepting Jewish refugees in WWII, to its minimal coverage of many genocides in Africa and Asia over the years.
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Terrible lies with terrible consequences for innocent people.
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How can one believe anything Israel says?
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“The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.” - Norman Finkelstein.
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F thé NYT
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This story was written by a filmmaker, Anat Schwartz. She was hired to make a lie sounds believable.
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NYT needed a filmmaker, because they needed fiction, not reality.
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By "controversial article" do you mean "straight forward fake news"?
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So much propaganda
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I'm not a journalist (but also not a dummy) and I SECOND this request. This is shameful and they need to do a full investigation and print it. I can't even take the NYT seriously anymore
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Grayzone continues to be the journalistic gold standard exposing these corporate institutions as dangerous liars
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Im glad to see Americans making their representatives accountable
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Shut down the New York Times!! REAL journalists need to speak up and shut this place down.
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Credit Grayzone.
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Shame on NYT good of Grayzone Electric Intifada and Mondowriss digging out this important truth
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Good job journalists! All professors and lawyers also have to stand up and voice out.
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Mainstream media and investigative journalism don't go together.
