Book Reveals: New York Times Buried Holocaust News

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[deepFR]

The New York Times consistently buried Holocaust news in its back pages and downplayed the victims' Jewish identity. So states the first scholarly study of how the Times covered the Nazi genocide. Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper," by Prof. Laurel Leff, has just been published by Cambridge University Press.

Among the book's key findings, according to The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, are the following:

* Holocaust news was consistently relegated to the Times' back pages. Of the 1,186 articles that the Times published during 1939-1945 about Europe's Jews, only 26 (about two percent) of them appeared on the front page, and even those articles "obscured the fact that most of the victims were Jews."

* New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, an assimilated Jew of German descent, feared that the newspaper would be engaging in special pleading and thus deliberately downplayed news of the Holocaust and the Jewish identity of the victims.

* The Times only rarely published editorials about the annihilation of Europe's Jews, and only once ran a lead editorial about the Nazi genocide.

* Because of its importance, the Times helped set the tone for the rest of the media's coverage of Holocaust news; the Times "might have been able to help bring the facts about the extermination of the Jews to public consciousness ... [instead,] the Times helped drown out the last cry from the abyss."

* When the Nazi death camps were liberated, the Times' coverage downplayed the fact that the victims and survivors were overwhelmingly Jews.

Author Prof. Leff, a former reporter and editor who teaches journalism at Northeastern University, is a leading member of the Academic Council of The Wyman Institute. The Wyman Institute is organizing Prof. Leff's speaking appearances around the United States.

Stuart Eizenstat, formerly the U.S. ambassador for Holocaust-era issues, called the book "engrossing and important," adding, "One can only wonder in great sorrow how many lives might have been saved if the nation's and the world's conscience had been touched by full and complete coverage by the Times of what remains the greatest crime of world history."

Marvin Kalb, elder statesman of American journalism, said that Buried by The Times "stands tall in scholarship, style and importance ... it is an exceptional study of one of the darkest failures of the New York Times..."

Prof. David S. Wyman, author of The Abandonment of the Jews, praised Buried by the Times as "the best book yet about American media coverage of the Holocaust, and an extremely important contribution to our understanding of America's response to the mass murder of the Jews."

The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, located on the campus of Gratz College near Philadelphia, is a research and education institute focusing on America's response to the Holocaust

[deepFR]

NYT wrong then, and wrong today.

[nopardons]

bttt

[LoudAmericanCowboy]

As much as prominent Jewish leftists want to deny it, most Jews, at least the ones I know, HATE and BOYCOTT the NYT. Yes, we believe in a liberal media too.

The NYT used to be Republican at one point.

[leadpenny]

I wonder what is said in the book about the "influence" of the FDR administration on what most newspapers printed?

[Yehuda]

"As much as prominent Jewish leftists want to deny it, most Jews, at least the ones I know, HATE and BOYCOTT the NYT. Yes, we believe in a liberal media too. "

Here in NYC, most Jews by birth (who worship the mental illness of liberalism instead of G-d) ALL READ THE TIMES.

The only Jews I know who DON'T read the Times are either religious and/or are very right of center.

[zarf]

Haven't we had enough of this Holocaust crap?

How many damn memorials do we need?

The Holocaust has been franchised to the point that it should be renamed McMassacre.

It has now become a pathetic, generic symbol of "man's inhumanity to man" with the Jewish experience during that sick period slowly sinking into the muddle of McVictimization.

The Holocaust is becoming a shield in which modern day Jew haters can defend themselves from claims of Anti-Semitism while bashing the Jews at the same time.

[dts32041]

Actually this shows a pattern from the NYT, Didn't they also cover up the Stalin purges of the Kulaks in the 20's and 30's and the Rwanda problems in the nineties.

Do you see a pattern here.

[thoughtomator]

Yep, continuing right up to the present day... Sudanese genocide news, back pages, obscuring the Islamic character of it in every story. Covering up for despotic regimes the world 'round, that should be the new slogan for the NY Times.

[BykrBayb]

Um, wow. I didn't realize all those people weren't worth remembering. Okay, we can all just forget about it now. No big deal. Thank you for putting it all into perspective. /sarcasm

[Zivasmate]

"Holocaust news was consistently relegated to the Times' back pages. Of the 1,186 articles that the Times published during 1939-1945 about Europe's Jews, only 26 (about two percent) of them appeared on the front page, and even those articles "obscured the fact that most of the victims were Jews."

This is unbelievable in context with how just about every day for the past 20 years, the Times features a FRONT PAGE column of the plight of some allegedly mistreated ethnic minority.

This has been an unabashedly anti-Semitic paper for 60 years. And, incredibly, it is gobbled up by most liberal Jews in New York City. Amazing!

[leadpenny]

Haven't we had enough of this Holocaust crap?

In general or what happened in the 30s and 40s in particular?

[zarf]

In general or what happened in the 30s and 40s in particular?

The 30's and 40's in particular.

[bad company]

Haven't we had enough of this Holocaust crap?

No we haven't.

[Enterprise]

What a profound example of how a paper can direct events by what it prints, and what is suppresses!

[elhombrelibre]

Yes, they did cover up those purges. The specific reporters name was Walter Duranty; he hailed the success of Stalin's collective agriculture in the Ukraine while the people there starved from a man-made famine. Kulaks was a name given to private farmers who'd been modestly successful. Stalin simply called all who disagreed with collectivism Kulaks. Also, he meant to suppress Ukrainian nationalism. This is one of the great untold stories of Soviet history, at least not told well to the general public. It's almost as poorly known as Operation Keel Haul where US and UK forces delivered hundreds of thousands of captured Russian prisoners after WW II to Stalin against the wishes of the prisoners. These prisoners were often shot within hearing distance of the US and UK forces who delivered them. Others went to the Gulag. Few survived.

[elhombrelibre]

I don't know what we gain by forgetting any of the enormous crimes inflicted on people. If it's a subject you have no interest in, no one will force you to pay attention. Surely you don't expect the survivors to not commemorate those they lost, do you?

[elhombrelibre]

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[Alouette]

Haven't we had enough of this Holocaust crap? How many damn memorials do we need?

The Holocaust has been franchised to the point that it should be renamed McMassacre.

The appropriate way to memorialize the Holocaust is not by building museums, but by building schools, synagogues and yeshivos so that the next generation of Jewish people will be firm in their faith and observance. Not another freakin damn shrine to the dead.

Anti-Semites love Holocaust memorials. They look at the exhibits featuring piles of dead Jews and feel great satisfaction.

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[FreeReporting]

Holocaust crap ???

No. We respect and honour our dead.

[DTA]

>>>>>>Do you see a pattern here.<<<<<

The only genocide NYT will write about is FAKE GENOCIDE, as demonstrated by numerous NYT articles about Bosnia and Kosovo 'genoicides'.

The real genocides such as Ukraine, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda were downplayed while they happened.

[MacDorcha]

Hehe, sorry, just laughing at a mental picture here...

A jewish cowboy....

Is that a wide-brim skullcap?

Ok, enough with the smart assedness.

I have to agree with you, the Jews I know (though most I know are liberal for some un-goddly reason) admit that the NYT is a liberal media. It's amazing though, that they admit that.

It may be the conservative influences in my area that let most of the liberals I know become incredibly self-aware.

[MacDorcha]

While I agree about the social outlook on it, I think an increased awareness of it will quell the dissenting ranks into understanding what true evil is.

Maybe then they'll (most of them anyway) gain the ability to distiguish between Republican and Nazi. And then furhter (hopefully) recognize that socialism and liberalism were at the heart of nazi-ism.

With any luck, they'll abandon the DNC and come to the Light Side.

[Cinnamon Girl]

The New York Times' deliberate disregard of the Holocaust they knew full well about is clearly explained in "The Abandonment of the Jews", by David S. Wyman, published in 1984. And yes, it talks about how FDR blew off the Holocaust as well.

[litehaus]

Duranty, I think, was the man............

[hobbes1]

ctually this shows a pattern from the NYT, Didn't they also cover up the Stalin purges of the Kulaks in the 20's and 30's and the Rwanda problems in the nineties.

And the Silent American Holocaust as well.

[Zionist Conspirator]

It has now become a pathetic, generic symbol of "man's inhumanity to man" with the Jewish experience during that sick period slowly sinking into the muddle of McVictimization.

It's been completely de-Judaeofied and turned not only into the generic symbol you mention, but also one of what "religion" does to "free-thinking dissenters."

Holocaust-centrism has altered the foundations of Jewishness and made it all but impossible for the Israelis to expel the hostile non-Jews or create a truly Jewish state governed by Halakhah. After all, "what did the Holocaust teach us?"

Funny how the massacres of the ancient Jews by pagans has been completely forgotten or mythologized. After all, those massacres can't be used in the above manner.

[Salem]

"The appropriate way to memorialize the Holocaust is not by building museums, but by building schools, synagogues and yeshivos so that the next generation of Jewish people will be firm in their faith and observance. Not another freakin damn shrine to the dead. ... Anti-Semites love Holocaust memorials. They look at the exhibits featuring piles of dead Jews and feel great satisfaction."

And that is why I like Alouette!

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[pharmamom]

I wonder if the Slimes will review this book? </irony>

[onyx eyes]

I don't understand. (you). You want, the Holocaust to be thought of as only the massacre of Jews? I guess, that is what you are saying. Not the generic "man's inhumanity to man".

In reality it is both. But the only way that it can be properly remembered and honored, is the old way, that we were taught, (some yrs ago) in school. Back then, people were taught or learned about it, as what they nowadays call a "Hate-Crime".

[LoudAmericanCowboy]

Haven't you ever heard of Kinky Friedman from Texas?

[processing please hold]

Is the Times ever going to just die and go away?

[unfortunately a bluestater]

What do you mean by the "Silent American Holocaust"?

[eclectic]

Haven't we had enough of this Holocaust crap?

Apparently not enough. YOU still don't get it...

[eclectic]

Your post does not make any sense at all. The Holocaust "de-Judeified"? Gimme a break...

[Zionist Conspirator]

I don't understand. (you). You want, the Holocaust to be thought of as only the massacre of Jews? I guess, that is what you are saying. Not the generic "man's inhumanity to man".

Churban 'Europa' (the "Holocaust") is part of Jewish history, just like the Egyptian slavery, the conquest of the Holy Land, the destruction of the Temples, etc. It has been detached from Biblical/Jewish history and made a separate, secularist "revelation."

The only legitimate lesson the world can learn from the Holocaust is the evil of opposing HaShem, the True G-d. Sorry, but I utterly reject all secular "morality" and "ethics" whatsoever.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Your post does not make any sense at all. The Holocaust "de-Judeified"? Gimme a break...

I am sorry that my point is so difficult to understand.

Whether or not the Holocaust has been "de-Judaeified" depends on how one defines Jewishness. It is true that "the Jews'" status as the unique victims of the Holocaust has always been stressed, but who are "the Jews?" Are they the Biblical Israelites who taught G-d's morality to the world while effacing paganism from the Holy Land, or are they merely the victims of chr*stianity, the implication being that they are the victims of religion and morality? My point about the Holocaust being "de-Judaeified" was that it has been detached from Jewish History (by which I mean the history that begins at Creation and forms the heart of the Bible) and made into a foundational myth of secularism.

But if you didn't understand this the first time, you won't understand it this time either. I hope to write an essay on this subject at my web site in the near future, be`ezrat HaShem.

[Snickersnee]

It was easy to get Americans' blood up for war after Pearl Harbor -- the sentiment for revenge against the "dirty Nips" probably ran in polls on the order of 90 for, 10 against. But in 1940-1941 you could not get a majority, or even a decent plurality, of Americans to agree to go to war in Europe because the Jews were being put into ovens. That was a European problem. Britain is standing alone? Sounds like a British problem. Hitler attacks Stalin? Great -- they deserve each other. The point is, Hitler had to be beaten, yes, even before the Japanese, and the Jewish-owned (and deeply self-conscious of it!) NYT could not allow it to appear that American boys were being fed into the ETO meat-grinder just because of the Jews. That wouldn't wash.

I refuse to believe that the reason for this is native American anti-Semitism. It is more likely an appreciation of the horrors of 1914-1918 that tempered American attitudes toward military involvement on the Continent.

[hobbes1]

More commmonly known as Abortion.

[Nam Vet]

Why don't I find this surprising?

Nam Vet

[Nam Vet]

We don't need a ton of memorials, we just need NOT to forget it. I'm not Jewish, but I'm insulted by your a$$-hole remarks. I think a clarification is in order on your part.

Nam Vet

[onyx eyes]

....well....it is obvious, you can tell, I'm not Jewish. The fact that I've always loved people who are Jewish, and had friends of same, wouldn't matter a whit to you, I'm sure.
Just tell me, what is this thing with G-d. the hyphen in the middle of the word God? And below that another writer types chr*stianity, in his post.

Anyway, I still say, that it's education that makes the difference in how a historical event is thought of and remembered. I've been taught or brought up to believe that yes, it was six million Jews that perished in that horror. But, yes, they are my sisters and brothers, also.

[Loyal Buckeye]

"New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, an assimilated Jew of German descent, feared that the newspaper would be engaging in special pleading..."

The reason is "special pleading"??? What in the heck is that?

[RoadTest]

“Anti-Semites love Holocaust memorials. They look at the exhibits featuring piles of dead Jews and feel great satisfaction.”

I never looked at it that way. I just knew I didn’t like going to them. I think you’re right, though.

It’s like the Catholic Church always showing Jesus dead, nailed to the cross where they can control Him.