The New York Times has published an editors’ note about its early coverage of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City (sorry about fake news)

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[janetjanet998]

On Oct. 17, The Times published news of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City, leading its coverage with claims by Hamas government officials that an Israeli airstrike was the cause and that hundreds of people were dead or injured. The report included a large headline at the top of The Times’s website. Israel subsequently denied being at fault and blamed an errant rocket launch by the Palestinian faction group Islamic Jihad, which has in turn denied responsibility.

American and other international officials have said their evidence indicates that the rocket came from Palestinian fighter positions. The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast. However, the early versions of the coverage — and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.

The Times continued to update its coverage as more information became available, reporting the disputed claims of responsibility and noting that the death toll might be lower than initially reported. Within two hours, the headline and other text at the top of the website reflected the scope of the explosion and the dispute over responsibility. Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict, and the prominent promotion it received, Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.

[janetjanet998]

Newsroom leaders continue to examine procedures around the biggest breaking news events — including for the use of the largest headlines in the digital report — to determine what additional safeguards may be warranted.

[janetjanet998]

No mention of the photo of a destroyed building implying that was the hospital

[Semper Vigilantis]

Wow! NYT admits to misinformation!?! Did I wake up in Bizarro-world?

[ComputerGuy]

Was this prominently displayed on page one?

[janetjanet998]

LOL

BBC News (UK)

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Readers added context
The BBC itself recently had to apologise for airing misinformation over a pro-palestinian protest.
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1715692424415039616

[no-to-illegals]

To be fair the note should have taken all the space of their first front page ….. have to believe the note was well hidden …..

[Stepan12]

I didn’t know the NYTgave misinformation. Walter Duranty assurred me there was no famibne.

[jocon307]

“No mention of the photo of a destroyed building implying that was the hospital”

Right, exactly. And presumably the photo was their choice, unless they just accepted some picture provided by Hammass and said: yeah we’ll run this.

They are entirely useless.

[Freeleesy]

NYT rehires Hitler-praising Soliman Hijjy to cover Israel-Hamas war
By Shannon Thaler

Published Oct. 20, 2023, 4:11 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/hitler-praising-soliman-hijjy-covers-israel-hamas-war-for-nyt/

‘How great you are, Hitler,’ posts journalist rehired by the New York Times
By Danielle Greyman-Kennarf Published: October 21, 2023
Freelance filmmaker Soliman Hijjy was rehired by the New York Times despite his history of antisemitism.
...Hijjy reappeared in the NYT bylines on October 12, only five days after the massacre that shook Israel.

Hijjy’s history of antisemitism

In 2012, Hijjy praised Hitler on a Facebook post, writing: “How great you are, Hitler,” while sharing Pro-Hitler memes in several other posts.

In 2018, Hijjy continued his social media praise of the genocidal Nazi leader, writing that he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust.” A photo of himself accompanied this post.

In 2020, the journalist justified war crimes committed against Israeli civilians by Hamas when he described the indiscriminate rocket fire as “resistance.”
Problematic reporting

NYT was one of the many newspapers falsely claiming that Israel was behind the explosion at a hospital in Gaza. Fox News confirmed that Hijjy was one of the professionals involved with the story.

While covering stories on the Hamas conflict, Hijjy has repeatedly failed to describe the October 7 attack as a terrorist attack, instead referring to it as a “Hamas attack,” The Algemeiner reported. Hijjy has also referred to “the Gaza health ministry,” not to the Hamas-terrorist-controlled Gaza health ministry, like other Times articles have done.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-769513

[Blennos]

Most of us here have long known not to trust any “news” coming from the NYT or the BBC or the AP or Reuters or the Washington Post or NBC or CBS or ABC or CNN or NPR or PBS or ...

Assume what they report is false until it can be verified in some other way.

[joma89]

The nyt is all fake news. They just do not like it when their fake news is so obviously debunked.

[BobL]

Thank God that the NY Times would NEVER lie the same way about the Hunter Laptop, Election Fraud, or the Ukraine War...

[maddog55]

News Editor Note...
They should have apologized with a front page headline story.

[Clutch Martin]

“Wow! NYT admits to misinformation!?! Did I wake up in Bizarro-world?”

It’s still bizarre, what happened was the NYT got caught lying not soon thereafter the actual incident. Those pesky satellite photos and other data that was collected real time was the undoing.

I’m actually quite surprised they ran an unapologetic apology at all.

[moovova]

NYT could’ve just cut to the chase and posted...

“We’re sorry. Not really.”

[bobbo666]

No, this is just the NYT saying that they are sorry you found out that they were just fabricating another lie. For years now they have, at their core, supported outfits like Hamas. And Antifa, and BLM, and any socialist group, etc.

Where are the folks who would have already blamed DJTrump for this?

[Ge0ffrey]

Must have been a lot of cancelled subscriptions.

[logi_cal869]

Newsroom leaders continue to examine procedures around the biggest breaking news events...

Perhaps they should simply revisit their own prior, pre-digital age procedures for vetting sources, information & events (aka 'journalism').

Regardless, only the gullible left will swallow this faux mea culpa.

[coloradan]

The fact they hire a person who praises Hitler is proof that cancel culture is actually just a weapon against their ideological enemies rather than an honest expression of things they will no longer tolerate.

Also note how the left (1) regularly compares those on the right with Hitler and Nazis, while (2) actually hiring or giving standing ovations to literal Nazis, or those who praise Hitler.

Remember, if it weren’t for double standards, some people wouldn’t have any standards at all.

[lepton]

Where was the correction posted?

This one really should have been front-page equivalent.