{"id":257561,"date":"2024-03-25T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=257561"},"modified":"2024-03-20T04:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:47:23","slug":"its-journalistic-malpractice-to-say-gazans-are-starving-without-saying-israel-is-starving-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/its-journalistic-malpractice-to-say-gazans-are-starving-without-saying-israel-is-starving-them\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Journalistic Malpractice to Say Gazans Are Starving without Saying Israel Is Starving Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The editors of <\/em>The New York Times know exactly what they\u2019re doing packaging a story about Israel\u2019s deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it\u2019s a troubling prediction about the weather. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

19 Mar 2024 <\/em>– The mass media are printing some amazingly depraved headlines about a new UN-backed report<\/a> on starvation in Gaza from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, who says half the enclave\u2019s population is now at the highest-possible threat level for starvation.<\/p>\n

The New York Times has a real corker out titled \u201cFamine Is Projected for Northern Gaza, Experts Say<\/a>\u201d, subtitled \u201cA global authority on food security said that in the coming months, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the severest levels of hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n

A casual news consumer could get multiple paragraphs into this article assuming that people in a place called Gaza are suffering from some kind of famine caused by natural events, like a drought or something. Not until paragraph four would they encounter the word \u201cIsraeli\u201d, and not until paragraph five would they encounter the line \u201cIsraeli\u2019s bombardment and a near-total blockade.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a time when only 20 percent of news readers<\/a> ever make it past the headline of a given story, this is an extremely destructive and propagandistic act of journalistic malpractice. The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they\u2019re doing packaging a story about Israel\u2019s deliberate starvation<\/a> of Palestinian civilians like it\u2019s a troubling prediction about the weather.<\/p>\n

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Just when you think @nytimes<\/a> coverage of Gaza couldn\u2019t get worse, they sink to new lows. Now they\u2019re describing famine in Gaza as if it\u2019s an inclement weather projection, rather than a weapon of war deployed by Israel to collectively punish Gaza\u2019s entire population. pic.twitter.com\/nAlZPQdmJg<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tariq Kenney-Shawa (@tksshawa) March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n