Multiple NYT sources tell me that the paper is now cutting ties with Anat Schwarz after her social media history — “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse” — was exposed. Her explosive article shaped public understanding of 10/7 yet the team at The Daily has still been unable to produce an episode based on it, after producers found it full of holes.
She appears to have no journalism experience before being commissioned by the Times to team up with her nephew to do reporting for a major front page article that had an extraordinary impact on the course of the war. She and her nephew fed their notebooks to Jeffrey Gettleman, who flew in to write the story
We’ll have a full story up tomorrow. If you’re at the Times, I’m on signal at 202-368-0859
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Some fascinating politics underway in a Houston Democratic primary where the war in Gaza is becoming a central issue. This text message went out to a bunch of voters, claiming to be from Lizzie Fletcher boasting of her AIPAC endorsement and her strong support for “Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorists.” She does say that and is indeed backed by AIPAC, but she’s crying foul, saying her campaign didn’t send the messages.
The suggestion in her statement is that her opponent or an ally did it to highlight her link to AIPAC.
Her opponent Pervez Agwan denies having sent it.
But what’s remarkable about the whole thing is that none of what’s in the text message is untrue.
Meanwhile DMFI is in the race saying basically this exact thing in print advertisements in Houston’s Jewish Herald Voice
The White House just compared “anti-Israel protesters” — the phrase used by the Fox News reporter in his question — to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville.
When it is no longer deniable what is being done in Gaza right now — I don’t know when that time will come, but it will — there will be a lot of people with an enormous amount to answer for.
To compare the people protesting that to Charlottesville is unhinged.
This NBC “fact checker” is on the one hand telling Zeynep that there is no “media censorship” while on the other hand accusing her of “Greenwaldian” behavior for simply saying we don’t know how the pandemic started.
Ben, do you not understand that using your position as a major… https://t.co/fx8RNDFFpWtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Zeynep’s willingness early in the pandemic to challenge orthodoxy changed our conversation and arguably saved a lot lives. Ben — @oneunderscore__ — should look that up, and aspire to it, not attack it.
@oneunderscore__ Meanwhile somebody who is dedicated to being factual has somehow forgotten that discussing a lab leak was literally forbidden on facebook properties for a very long time. What is that if not censorship?
The NYT was confronted with newly released messages from scientists coordinating about how to mislead its own reporter. A moment of truth for the paper.
The old NYT would defend its integrity by putting a new team of reporters on the story with a mission to follow the facts… https://t.co/giNHkQQO1wtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
There are so many good reporters at the Times, but the editorial leadership has apparently given up
Several million people died worldwide and while we still don’t know the origin, but we know for sure that a group of scientists, working with our own government, coordinated to make the world believe a lab leak was “not plausible” while they privately thought it was likely. They… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Biden is now picking a fight with Australia (after offending them by cancelling a trip there over the debt ceiling) by re-opening a case against Australian journalist Julian Assange even as the country calls for his repatriation
The US, as you can see in the top left, is also suggesting that the Aussies are war criminals, and so might not be able to cooperate with our imperial forces, which operate only in the most ethical warring fashion.
This comes as we’re jockeying w/China for power in the region.
The irony, of course, is that Assange is charged with publishing classified information that implicated US forces in war crimes, which have gone unpunished.
The US absolutely can not ever be shamed by hypocrisy.
One of the things I’m most grateful for is that my kids are older now and I never did this, but it was always a fear of mine. I’m incredibly distractable, and I don’t think I’m inherently better than the people this has happened to.