Posted on 02/22/2023 7:08:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The New York Times announced Monday that it won a George Polk Award for its "news report" about Hasidic Yeshivas, which was exposed to have been part of a political operation targeting the religious group, through an investigation published by Breitbart.
The Times bragged on its website how its report that "exposed how private schools in New York's Hasidic Jewish community were failing to provide students with an adequate education, despite receiving more than a quarter of a billion dollars in public funds annually," was given the once-prestigious award.
However, the Times story -- alleging Hasidic students "[know] nothing" and grow up "barely [able] to support their own families" -- was revealed to have been carefully curated by omitting relevant information, shunning sources directly involved with the schools, and declining to publish pertinent on-the-record statements, producing a weapon used by secular political interest groups to attack the pious community's most sacred institutions.
The Times apparently timed its story to coincide with a Board of Regents vote to regulate the religious schools, and amid the public pressure, the board unanimously decided to impose state edicts on the schools to control curricula.
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Thanks Marv.
The debunking itself was invalidated because it was done by a conservative (read Nazi/fascist) news organization, Breitbart. Liberals apply the genetic fallacy here.
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I'm surprised NYS doesn't already control the secular curricula.
When I attended NYC Catholic schools in the 1970s, we were told our textbooks were provided to us by NYS (the same textbooks that public schools used). That those books were the only support we received from the state.
The religious books were provided by the church, and paid for by our tuition.
So the state already controlled the secular curricula when I attended.
Huh, I went from Yeshiva to MIT and tutored fellow students in math using what I learned as a young teen.
I’m calling BS on the story.
Sure different schools have different priorities, but, as usual the NYT has an agenda and uses a broad brush.
Why not, they still have their Pulitzer for the debunked reporting from Stalin’s Russia on the Ukrainian Holocaust!
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