New York Times

The New York Times’ Anti-Bibi Campaign

The New York Times started  'campaigning' against Bibi before the elections and continued after his surprise victory. But when a front page 'news' analysis was redacted to remove mitigating quotes from controversial remarks by the prime minister, the publication further cemented its growing reputation as the advocacy journal of record.

New York Times News Pages Go Into Editorializing Overdrive

Today in inappropriate editorializing: News reporter Diaa Hadid purports to knows what Benjamin Netanyahu thinks (deception!) and what Mahmoud Abbas thinks (negotiations!), while Jodi Rudoren turns partisan opinions into New York Times fact.

NY Times Corrects on Jerusalem Arabs’ Voting Rights

CAMERA prompts correction of a New York Times article which erroneously reported that Jerusalem Arabs do not have full voting rights. In fact, they are entitled to Israeli citizenship, which grants them full voting rights.

The Death of Adele Biton and The New York Times’ Justification of Lopsided Reporting

On Feb. 17, 4-year-old Adele Biton died as a result of complications of pneumonia. Two years earlier she was critically injured in a Palestinian stone-throwing attack and had never fully recovered. But when NYT correspondent Jodi Rudoren wrote a nearly 2000-word front page feature on Palestinian stone-throwers, she found no room to mention the attack that maimed the toddler. In an interview following Adele's death, Rudoren defends her lopsided reporting.

A Convict’s Tall Tale is All That’s Fit to Print

Feb. 12 update: The newspaper has published a correction.

After a Palestinian was charged and convicted of transferring funds to Hamas, he and his supporters insisted he was arrested for drawing anti-Israel cartoons. The New York Times apparently prefers that version, and didn't bother pointing out that even the cartoonist's lawyer has been open about the actual charges.

The New York Times Rewritten

The bias in New York Times news coverage is a routine occurrence, appearing both in obvious ways, for example, with factual distortions, and in more subtle ways, with reporters coloring news stories with opinion. CAMERA has rewritten some of these passages to present a more objective and factual version.