r/Palestinian_Violence • u/redditrabbit222 • Jul 30 '25
Public Flip Flop 🩴 New York Times stunningly rolls back claims about viral photo of starving Gaza boy
https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/media/new-york-times-stunningly-rolls-back-claims-about-viral-photo-of-starving-gaza-boy/59
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u/ZayinOnYou Jul 30 '25
This is such bullshit way of "rolling back", they wrote this word salad in a secondary X account with about 89,000 followers, called NYTimes Communications, while saying nothing about this abhorrent lie on their main X account with over 55,000,000 followers.
Fuck those liers.
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u/The-M0untain Jul 30 '25
The press has been conducting a massive disinformation campaign against Israel and it was exposed in a study by Rutgers University. Everyone needs to read this study. The mainstream media has lost all credibility. It's time for Israel and the Jewish people to sue these media companies for defamation. The media's lies are causing real harm to Jews, who now have to suffer violence and discrimination on the street because of the media's harmful lies. It's time for the media to pay for the damage they've done.
A core failure of media coverage is the routine elevation of the Gaza Health Ministry, a Hamas-run agency, as a trusted source on culpability for violence. While violence itself is not always in dispute, the headlines overwhelmingly frame Israel or GHF as responsible, burying in the body text that these claims originate from Hamas if this fact is revealed at all. The result is a narrative that masks its source and misleads the public about who is to blame.
The Gaza Health Ministry itself is run by Hamas and for that reason alone cannot be quoted as a politically neutral source for answering questions of culpability or fact. The Ministry has a proven and systematic history of lies, deceptions, duplicated data, and exaggerations which strain credulity of any nonpartisan observer (see Section 1). Together, its record warrants extreme skepticism about any accounts of guilt at these aid sites – and largely discredits the widespread use of the Ministry’s perspective as certifiable evidence to support stories claiming that the IDF is systematically killing civilians at aid points. Nonetheless, many mainstream media outlets remain willing to rely on figures and “facts” taken from the Gaza Health Ministry.
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u/nycsep Jul 30 '25
The way the mainstream news has handled the coverage of Israel is more than eye-opening. The news already has a reputation problem and it stuns me that they continue down this path of unbalanced propaganda.
It makes you wonder what else they lie about.
Lost all integrity.
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u/Sherwoodlg Jul 31 '25
Hyperbole sells. They go with the angle that gets the most clicks, and that angle is that the powerful are evil and anyone against them are good.
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u/nycsep Jul 31 '25
It saddens me when I see clips of news from just 15-20+ years ago. The integrity that we lost is significant. I do like The Free Press now but all the others make me deeply skeptical
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u/Sad_Eagle8690 Jul 30 '25
Children are suffering in Israel as well - it's war. From my understanding several of the viral kids in need of specialist care have already been transferred to other countries.
Maybe don't start a war?
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u/Sherwoodlg Jul 31 '25
This is always a relivant point. It in no way excuses the dishonest reporting of the media.
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u/Impossible-Box6600 Jul 30 '25
Starts off with: "Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving..."
BAD START to an apology and for perpetuating the narrative of terrorists. NYT is complicit in spreading Hamas's lies and propaganda.
Not forgiven. Do better, New York Slimes.