On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:34 AM The Intercept < [email protected]> wrote:
> Over the last few weeks, The Intercept has exposed massive holes in the > New York Times’s marquee front-page exposé on alleged sexual violence > committed on October 7. > ------------------------------ > > > Over the last few weeks, The Intercept has exposed massive holes in the > New York Times’s marquee front-page exposé on alleged sexual violence > committed on October 7. > > Instead of addressing the gaping flaws in the story and issuing a > correction, the Times has launched an *internal “witch hunt” targeting > employees based on their national origin, ethnicity, and race* to track > down anyone who may have talked to The Intercept about the story, according > to the union that represents the Times newsroom employees. > > The Intercept is continuing to investigate and expose false reports and > anti-Palestinian bias in major news outlets like the New York Times. *But > as a nonprofit news organization, we rely on donations from readers to help > fund this vital reporting.* > > *Will you make a donation to help support the hard-hitting investigative > journalism of The Intercept? > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/45661?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=9&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ>* > > *If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your > donation will go through immediately:* > > DONATE $15 → > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/11760?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=10&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ> > > DONATE $25 → > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/11761?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=11&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ> > > DONATE $50 → > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/11762?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=12&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ> > > DONATE $100 → > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/11763?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=13&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ> > > DONATE ANOTHER AMOUNT → > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/11764?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=15&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ> > > The controversy around the New York Times’s shabby October 7 reporting > isn’t just some inside baseball media story. The Times’s December 28 report > on sexual violence in the Hamas attack has had a massive impact on the > policy debate in Washington and helped stifle growing opposition to > Israel’s brutal assault on the civilian population of Gaza. > > *But major problems with the story emerged almost as soon as it was > published.* > > One of the reporters who bylined the story was found to have “liked” > social media posts calling Palestinians “human animals” and urging Israel > to “turn the [Gaza] strip into a slaughterhouse.” > > Later, the same reporter admitted that her initial reporting had been > unable to uncover a single complaint about sexual violence during the > October 7 attack from Israeli hospitals, rape crisis centers, trauma > recovery facilities, and sexual assault hotlines. The Times reporters then > turned to reported eyewitnesses — some of whom had already been exposed in > the press as being unreliable narrators. > > The Intercept revealed that the Times’s flagship podcast “The Daily” > shelved an entire episode based on the December 28 story amid an internal > firestorm about the strength of the paper’s original reporting. > > Now, even the spokesperson for Kibbutz Be’eri, the village where the Times > specifically claimed rapes had occurred, has told The Intercept that two of > the victims singled out in the Times report “were not subjected to sexual > abuse.” > > To be clear: The question has never been whether individual acts of sexual > assault may have occurred on October 7. The central issue is whether the > New York Times presented solid evidence that Hamas deliberately and > systematically deployed sexual violence as a weapon. And to this day, > neither the Times nor any other institution has presented compelling proof > to back that explosive assertion. > > It’s vital that we get to the truth behind this story and the allegations > of sexual violence on October 7, and we’re asking you, our readers, to chip > in whatever you can afford to help us continue our reporting. > > *Will you make a donation to The Intercept and help support our ongoing > reporting on the war in Gaza? > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/45661?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=18&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ>* > > STAND WITH THE INTERCEPT → > <https://join.theintercept.com/go/45661?refcode=em_intercept_20240313_nm_gaza-nyt-witchhunt&t=19&akid=8897%2E13502%2Eal3EvJ> > Thank you, > The Intercept team > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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