Wake up, girls, new McLennon just dropped!
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The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.
The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.
The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.”
While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paper’s deference to Israeli narratives.
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Despite the memo’s framing as an effort to not employ incendiary language to describe killings “on all sides,” in the Times reporting on the Gaza war, such language has been used repeatedly to describe attacks against Israelis by Palestinians and almost never in the case of Israel’s large-scale killing of Palestinians.
In January, The Intercept published an analysis of New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times coverage of the war from October 7 through November 24 — a period mostly before the new Times guidance was issued. The Intercept analysis showed that the major newspapers reserved terms like “slaughter,” “massacre,” and “horrific” almost exclusively for Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians, rather than for Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli attacks.
The analysis found that, as of November 24, the New York Times had described Israeli deaths as a “massacre” on 53 occasions and those of Palestinians just once. The ratio for the use of “slaughter” was 22 to 1, even as the documented number of Palestinians killed climbed to around 15,000.
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It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes
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joe dimaggio: stop telling people i’m dead
paul simon: sometimes i can still hear his voice
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(in a job interview) i guess if i had to say my one strength it would be skipping the ad break on a podcast episode on the first try. yeah there's no button i just guess the number of minutes and i'm always right. oh you meant like work strengths? none
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The Crow (1994) dir. Alex Proyas
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Last night rewatching The Crow (1994) I was haunted by thoughts of a remake. I mean I still think no one ever should remake such a lightning in a bottle perfect film. But, if you gun to the head absolutely had to, I think the obvious way to approach this would be to make a version where Shelly Webster is the protagonist. You don't have to change almost anything, just make it so that Shelly is the one brought back from the dead to take revenge instead of Eric, and at least it would be an interesting approach to the source material (and also I wanna see a strong muscled, goth, Asian woman taking revenge, can you blame me). Anyway stream The Crow (1994)
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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about
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august 10, 1947
Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson is born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
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