Protesters storm New York Times offices over anti-Gaza bias

Palestine solidarity protesters took over the lobby of the New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan, denouncing the paper for its journalistic malpractice and biased coverage, which they called ‘the NYT-backed war on Gaza.’ This action coincides with the paper’s annual ‘State of the Times’ conference. Activists also blocked a shipment of the New York Times from leaving the printing plant in Queens yesterday. The New York Times has come under scrutiny for major bias towards Israeli narratives in the ongoing war on Gaza. Recent analysis by The Intercept found that The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza showed a consistent bias against Palestinians and paid little attention to the unprecedented impact of Israel’s siege and bombing campaign on both children and journalists in the Gaza Strip.

Protesters take over New York Times headquarters over Gaza coverage

Palestine solidarity protesters took over the lobby of the New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan, denouncing the paper for its journalistic malpractice and biased coverage, which they called ‘the… pic.twitter.com/iwdCW7bPKi

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Pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the building of the New York Times to protest the US newspaper’s bias towards Israel in the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.

An Anadolu correspondent reported that protesters gathered in front of the newspaper’s building in the Manhattan area of New York City, wearing shirts that read “Freedom for Palestine” and chanting slogans and saying “consent for genocide is manufactured here”.

Nearly 100 protesters managed to enter the building’s lobby despite the tight security measures by the police. Some activists were subsequently arrested.

In January, the Intercept collected more than 1,000 articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times about Israel’s war on Gaza and tallied up the usages of certain key terms and the context in which they were used. The tallies reveal a gross imbalance in the way Israelis and pro-Israel figures are covered versus Palestinians and pro-Palestinian voices — with usages that favour Israeli narratives over Palestinian ones, it reported.

Watch: Activists block New York Times printing plant

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