News Brief: NYT Bars Quakers From Using "Genocide" in Ad and Liberal Squeamishness Over the "G" Word

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this News Brief, we talk to Joyce Ajlouny of the American Friends Service Committee, discuss a recent episode where the New York Times refused to run an AFSC pro-ceasefire ad with the word "genocide" in it, and detail the broader battle within liberalism over labeling the US and Israel's "war" as genocide––and what it would entail if our media did.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.
0:07.8	I'm Adam Johnson.
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0:25.1	We will be back very shortly with new episodes of citations needed after our winter break.
0:31.3	But in the meantime, Adam, we wanted to talk about one of our favorite topics, the New York Times and their liberal
0:39.0	squeamishness about certain words at certain times.
0:43.0	As you've written, Adam, over the past year plus, almost a year and a half, the Times in
0:49.3	its coverage of the genocide in Gaza kind of vacillates in its language, oftentimes editorially and in
0:56.8	its straight news reporting, avoiding the term, say, genocide.
1:01.5	Well, yeah, I mean, they're never going to use that.
1:03.2	Clearly, right?
1:04.2	But allowing that word in other contexts sometimes.
1:08.1	Yet, this still remains really inconsistent. And as you recently wrote, Adam,
1:14.6	even front-page coverage of Gaza has waned. I think some of the criticism of the Times is not
1:21.3	necessarily that they wholly avoid articles on Israel's ongoing onslaught, but the language they use where they place the
1:30.8	articles, that is really telling about their perspective and what they want their readers to know
1:35.9	or what they don't want their readers to know.
1:38.4	Well, yeah.
1:38.8	Well, increasingly, it's less a qualitative criticism and more quantitative criticism.
1:43.0	They are just not covering it as much
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