the journalistic failures surrounding Iraq were so vast and numerous that it felt hard to diagnose, but after Gaza it feels simpler. the institution is distinctly racist towards Arabs and Muslims - not in some abstract structural way but in the sense that NYT leadership views them as inferior

Well it's their fault for living on top of our oil and gas and minerals and where we want to run pipelines! /s

It feels like an extension of the conservative conception of groups which the law "protects but does not bind" and "binds but does not protect" but replace "law" with "journalism standards"

it really does seem like "the arab world has a right to complain" as an idea is like suicide basically to them

Yeah it's far past the point of accidents of mistakes and has strongly reared into the malicious intent category.

Tbh I think this was never very subtle, as one part (among many!) of what was going on circa 2001-06 or so

Where is T.E Lawrence when need him 😔 (guys i know he died in the 1930s dont tell me)

I wish media would make a list of who was right about Iraq and listen to them. Stop quoting the people who were egregiously wrong about Iraq.

NY Times leadership saw that the head of The Atlantic personally tortured Palestinians & started to feel that they needed to one-up him

The Very Smart People giddily conjuring the specter of 9/11 in the beginning not as a caution, but to prime the pump was kind of a give away.

Glad they employ something like 7% of all journalists. We're not fucked as a society.