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Showing Original Post only (View all)60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Oct. 7 Mass Rape [View all]
A group of more than 60 journalism professors has written to The New York Times calling on the paper to commission an independent review of its report that members of Hamas committed widespread sexual violence on October 7. Numerous media outlets, as well as some of the papers own staff, have raised questions about the December 28 article headlined Screams Without Words, reported in part by a freelance Israeli journalist who had liked multiple posts on social media advocating for violence against Palestinians. The Times has even published subsequent reporting undercutting some of the key elements of the article, which was used by Israeli leaders and Western allies as justification for the brutal military campaign in Gaza that had already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians up to that point. It was very troubling to professors of journalism to see such a shoddy article be published without a retraction or an investigation, says Rutgers media studies professor Deepa Kumar, one of the signatories, author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire. She also says that as an academic, she is troubled by the mainstream medias depiction of student encampments as places of hate and violence. For those of us who have been to these encampments, we know that the atmosphere there is peaceful until the police show up and start to create chaos. These are fantastic spaces of learning.
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60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Oct. 7 Mass Rape [View all]
Uncle Joe
May 8
OP
Calling the survivors and victims liars is a disgrace is despicable. It only highlights what an hamas
JohnSJ
May 8
#2
What's wrong with an investigation? If you want the truth to come out, I see nothing wrong with it.
TeamProg
May 8
#12
It's not the "women" who would be investigated, it's the facts behind the STORIES. See the difference?
TeamProg
May 8
#17
It would be worthwhile to investigate and for the NYT to substantiate their sources...
Chakaconcarne
May 8
#22
It is shameful to assert there are no sources for this, after a mountain of evidence has been compiled.
SunSeeker
May 8
#37
Theocracy Now! shilling for authoritarian, extreme right wing religious fanatics.
lapucelle
May 8
#31
Funny how they never mention the livestreams and videos Hamas made of their actions
sarisataka
May 8
#15
So, they don't deny Hamas raped civilians, they're quibbling over what "mass" means!
SunSeeker
May 8
#21
DN is questioning the NYT reporting, which people here on DU do all the friggin' time
Chakaconcarne
May 8
#32
Except this seems to be a recurring theme, and it always is from the same groups. It doesn't matter what
JohnSJ
May 8
#35
Someone stating they are independent, does not mean they are objective. The only thing "independent"
JohnSJ
May 10
#49
Those 60 "journalism professors" did not review the evidence of Hamas systematic rape.
SunSeeker
8 hrs ago
#52