Once again , the NY Times lies about Israel
Creative lies such as these:
The New York Times posted the photo of a child who allegedly died in Gaza in 2021, in fighting between Israel and Hamas, which rules Gaza and fired thousands of rockets into Israel. But it wasn’t a photo of that child. Hussein Aboubakr Mansour says it was “a random photo from ‘cute Muslim toddlers’ online photo stocks that have been circulating for many years. … Hamas and @nytimes are literally trolling the world.”
The same photo was used in 2017 for another child who allegedly died in Gaza, notes law professor David Bernstein. As he observes, the “angelic photo” supposedly of this child published in the New York Times in 2021, was previously used in 2017 for a child with a different name, who supposedly died in that year. As Bernstein notes, “this is what happens” when “the Times ‘reaches out’ to a terrorist-tied organization for information.”
Oh, and there’s also the use of a false map that the Times’ deputy opinion editor, when challenged, described this way:
This artwork is not meant to represent any historical boundaries and it is not meant to serve as a literal, factual map — our data graphics department would handle such maps. This was an illustration conveying a sense of shrinking space for Palestinians. It is art…
I’m sure that everyone reading the Times is aware that maps published there aren’t meant to be true, but are instead creative fiction. Maybe they should just consider, as a default position, the notion that everything published in the NY Times is creative fiction.
Unfortunately, they don’t know that, although most people on the right do. In fact, just yesterday I was speaking to a very intelligent Democrat-voting relative who mentioned that his main source of news is the Times. He is hardly alone.
More on that artistic map:
As Shany Mor points out, the map is highly misleading, because it radically understates the percentage of land held by Jews in 1946, prior to the creation of Israel as a country in 1947. It does so by wrongly “labeling every single patch of land not owned by” the Jewish National Fund in the 1920’s — when Jews owned a smaller fraction of land — as being “Arab or Palestinian” in 1946. As he observes, much of the land not held by Jews was desert land owned by no one…
The Times knows exactly what it’s doing, and has been doing this for decades. That’s how you get people such as Kamau Bobb, who are ill-informed on this and many other topics and probably haven’t a clue as to the extent of the deception.
I reached the conclusion several years ago that the NYTimes is filled with fiction. And equally as pernicious, they don’t cover some legitimate news stories (Hunter Biden’s laptop comes to mind, and the story of the Philadelphia abortionist who was killing women — that never appeared in the NYTimes), so you cannot believe WHAT they publish, and you should keep in mind that they are avoiding other stories that should be in America’s paper of record. And the worst part is, many news people on small media outlets, particularly TV, look to the Times for guidance on what should be in their news reporting each day. It’s a sad situation!
The last time I checked (ca. 2005), about 7% of the land area of Israel proper was privately owned, with half held by Jews and half held by Arabs. About 13% was owned by the Jewish National Fund. About 80% was state land, which could be leased to private parties. Much of that is in the Negev, where the land isn’t good for much but low intensity grazing, if that. As of now, about 15% of the surface area consists of arable land.
Designated ‘cities’ in Israel tend to be quite densely settled and about 70% of the country’s population resides on 3% of the surface area.
Oh, and as far as maps and photos in the Times, we’ve known for a long time that these are not reliable. Particularly when it comes to Israel — they clearly have a propaganda mission vis-à-vis Israel.
Again, it’s run by AG Sulzberger, who fancied the cretinous race-hater Nikole Hannah-Jones was just the person to re-write the country’s history curricula.
I despise, detest, and TOTALLY distrust the NYT (the WaPoo, too!) Also, the TV “news”.
— our data graphics department would handle such maps. — It is art…
Why stop at data graphics? How about some artistic video editing like this from “Wag the Dog.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDmDZi05dY
Laws, regulations and ethical standards are meaningless when blatant violation of them is without consequence. Nor does declining readership matter when billionaires fund the propaganda.
The First Amendment’s protection of free speech is intended to protect disagreement, individual and consensual opinion and exposure of factual truth. It is not a license to lie.
The Sulzberger family covered up the Shoah. may they all suffer covid encephalitis
When I was an undergrad Oh So Many Years Ago I managed to stumble into the best work-study job I could imagine—Cataloguing and shelving current periodicals in the school Library. This included all the major newspapers from around the world. I was a voracious consumer of information and got paid by the hour. I read every major paper, because I truly (and rather naively) wanted to become as informed as possible. And the NYT was of course the gold standard.
What struck me at the time (and in retrospect is obvious) is that I always felt like I was too stupid to fully appreciate or even understand what was written in the Times. “Why do they say it that way?””what does that mean?””What am I not getting this?”
I assumed that it was just me not being smart enough to follow what the smart people were saying.
And I am a credentialed smart person. Imagine how those less brilliant than I ? feel and respond when confronted with the NYT line.
They have been a propaganda outfit for a very long time. And while the current crop of lefty shills may appear obvious to us, they fool an awful lot of people.
@avi:
“The Sulzberger family covered up the Shoah.”
And the Holodomor.
And the Great Leap Forward.
Maybe the Armenians have a gripe with Pinch, too? I don’t know.
“may they all suffer covid encephalitis”
It would seem that the Quality of Mercy has taken several round trips through my morning coffee’s filter paper. Or are you preserving the Other Cheek for your Close Up? 🙂
“they fool an awful lot of people.” Boatbuilder
Indeed they have and do. That said, at this point those who still claim the mass media to be honest are either willfully blind or know the truth and in principle, embrace the meme that “the ends justify the means”. In either case, they are complicit in the enabling of tyranny. Because whenever the means used are dishonest, the resultant end is tyranny.
“There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.” Richard Nixon
Good piece on the maps. Thanks.
@ boatbuilder: “And I am a credentialed smart person.”
Ah, that makes 17 of us (or is it 77 of us?!) 🙂
The observations about the Times are buttressed by this post, citing historical precedent as well as current events.
Teaser excerpt – the story begins with the debunking of the Russian bounties and Sicknick’s “murder”:
https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/how-the-new-york-times-publishes-lies-to-serve-a-biased-narrative/
He gives fascinating details about Hitler’s man in the Times Berlin bureau, and Duranty in the USSR; then talks about the alleged bounties paid by Russians on American soldiers in Afghanistan, which is now recognizable as the usual MO of the Times.
Which is why the Vanity Fair piece on the Lab Leak kept throwing out “it’s all Trump’s fault.”
Some reputation.
This Constant Trump Blaming is a kind of weird inversion of the way that back during the Cultural Revolution, you couldn’t open an exhibition or pen an introduction to a book on silkworm breeding or publish a scientific paper without beginning with a supposedly relevant, exhorting/approving quotation from his Little Red Book.
I’ll never forget first encountering this in the Translators’ Introduction to the Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang translation of Dream of the Red Chamber. Two very cultured people who met and married whilst at Oxford and went back to build the New China. Having to write this kind of grovelling Mao crap in the front of such a wonderful literary work must have been galling. Mind you, by the time they got around to finishing their translation they’d had worse things happen to them.
@AesopFan:
“Some reputation.”
Call me when the Writing’s on the Wall.
I’m minded of the saying that the Market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
If the New York Times were an internet platform ….
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2021/06/big-techs-no-free-speech-amendment.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28Daniel+Greenfield%2FSultan+Knish+articles%29
Dan Greenfield has a very grounded and sensible big picture understanding of What is Good for the Jews. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by him that I’ve vehemently disagreed with… and he’s not shy about laying it on a bit thick around (say) Purim or when the missiles start flying. But nothing wrong with rooting for one of your teams (Unless you’re Australian — in which case, Please Get a Room).
What matters is that he is reasonably aligned with the traditional values of the legacy population he coexists alongside with: good on immigration, good on attacking cultural degeneracy, isn’t a rabid fan of exporting jobs, and is not afraid of calling out fellow-Jews who are bad news in these departments.
Of course one reason he is so good is because he CAN be. If a non-Jew tried any of his call-outs from the same Right-Wing perspectives, no prizes for guessing what they would be called and what would happen to them. I guess he needs to be cloned. More please!
Babbling, obsessed
“…the Other Cheek….”
Well, yes; but in fact, the real question is (in this case at least), how many cheeks does one have to turn? (Cue the Fourth Turning?)
In any event, I believe the explanation in this case is that the curse that was meant to be invoked is:
“…may they all suffer from hemorrhoids the size of cabbages.”
Forsooth, I blame the spellchecker….
And back to that glorious slugfest between the NYT and the BB (AKA the “knock ’em down drag ’em out” between Parody and Satire?), it appears that in the end, the victors may well be…the lawyers.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2021/06/04/new-york-times-scrambles-after-babylon-bee-sics-its-lawyers-on-them-n1452007
Nonetheless, according to the “Times” (which should probably change its name to the “Sometimes”, or maybe even the “Never”) has accused—actually ACCUSED—the defendant of having been known to “[traffic] in misinformation under the guise of satire”.
Would seem that all the Bee has to do is accuse the NYT of having been known to consistently “[traffic] in misinformation under the guise of reporting”.
Open and shut—if there’s any justice wafting through the land. (Of course if the DOJ gets involved, then all bets are off….)
“…keep in mind that they are avoiding other stories that should be in America’s paper of record….”
Indeed, my “favorite” is their total blackout on the Russiagate hoax(not that they’re the only ones, certainly).
(To be fair, having reported on Russiagate would have—mightily—gotten in the way of “The Narrative”(TM); and Russiagate was a story (well, fairytale) that had to be propagated for as long as it could so as to have as decisive-as-possible an impact on the 2018 mid-terms. One may well wonder what kind of fit the poor “Fit-to-Print” dears will have to suffer regarding the latest Fauci debacle. Heh, just kidding—they’d no doubt prefer to ignore it, ‘cept they can’t really, so they’ll spin it as wildly as they can in the good doctor’s—and China’s—favor…and to DJT’s detriment. Besides, it doesn’t really matter at this point since the OGRE has been successfully deep-sixed….so they can be as incoherent as they wish…)
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC
Related:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/04/because-they-got-away-with-russiagate/
“…may they all suffer from hemorrhoids the size of cabbages.”
In that case, let me just state for the record that Some of my Best Friends are…
*sits down carefully*
Shofar sho good!
Companion article – this is directly related to the fake “art” maps in the Times.
https://besacenter.org/can-the-farhud-a-slaughter-of-jews-by-their-longtime-arab-neighbors-happen-again/
Be interesting to see what the Times said back then.
We know what they are saying now.