The New York Times has a Nicholas Kristof problem
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently voted not to exclude from its list of journalists those who are either in militant groups or backed by state-sponsored media. The question of trust and reliability when it comes to news and information from conflicts involving terrorists continues. Just a few weeks back, Nicholas Kristof wrote a dubiously […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists recently voted not to exclude from its list of journalists those who are either in militant groups or backed by state-sponsored media. The question of trust and reliability when it comes to news and information from conflicts involving terrorists continues.Just a few weeks back, Nicholas Kristof wrote a dubiously reported opinion piece about the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli detention that stitched together unreliable sources into a blood libel against the Jewish people. It was unsurprising to me. As an Iraqi immigrant, these claims were similar to the denigration of Jews I heard all the time growing up in the Middle Eastern subculture.
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