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The problem with the New York Times’ Gaza coverage

6 June 2021

6:00 PM

6 June 2021

6:00 PM

While war raged between Israel and Gaza, the New York Times published a powerful montage of 64 minors said to have been killed in the conflict so far.

Under its famous motto ‘All the news that’s fit to print’, and with the headline ‘They Were Only Children’, America’s paper of record informed us that ‘they had wanted to be doctors, artists and leaders’, and invited us to read their stories.

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