My NY Times Problem -- and Ours

This week, the paper of record callously, and somewhat blithely, committed at least two grave journalistic errors in relation to Israel and Gaza. One, the hiring of an avowed Hitler-worshipper to cover a Middle East hotspot, has yet to be righted. The other, propping up propaganda that blamed Israel for last week’s deaths at a Gazan hospital, kept smears online for six days, unfixed, un-apologized for, unexamined and largely uncorrected, notwithstanding the white flag of an Editor’s Note that was finally posted this morning

I spent 27 years of my life at the New York Times and its brazen self-assuredness and moral blindness in moments like these is breaking my heart.

[This isn’t error. Regurgitating Hamas propaganda was a choice made by the NYT. The “odd, odd, easy-to-miss, three-line correction to one of its updates” provides far more evidence of the NYTs complicity and sympathies with terrorist propaganda than anything they accepted in reporting that Israel struck the hospital in the first place. Why should we give them the benefit of doubt that these were errors when the NYT refuses to fully correct or account for said “errors”? — Ed]