Sunday, March 16, 2025
Elder of ZiyonThat ended in February, 2024. Since then it has simply been called the "Gaza health ministry" with no reference to the terrorist organization that controls it.
So it was interesting to see how the NYT covered the airstrikes by the US in Yemen today:
The strikes killed at least 31 people and wounded 101, “most of whom were children and women,” said Anis al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Houthi-run health ministry.The casualty figures could not be independently verified, and the United States has not given any estimates for the number of people killed or wounded in the strikes.
Those are reservations that have been largely missing in NYT coverage of specific attacks in Gaza since last February.
Yet even with those caveats, the NYT could have easily cast more doubt on the claims of the Houthi health spokesperson.
Al-Ashahi claimed that that every one of the claimed 31 killed and 101 injured were unarmed civilians, a claim that strains credulity given the Houthis’ military role and the strike targets (e.g., Sanaa military sites.)
Another piece of context that casts doubt on Houthi claims is that here is the graphic on al-Ashahi's X account that the NYT linked to:
The Hassan Nasrallah fan is hardly an objective, sober doctor who would just report the facts, which is how the Times has been treating Hamas health spokespeople.
So while there is some seeming skepticism of the Houthi claims, the newspaper does not fully inform its readers of how likely it is that the Houthis are lying.
Perhaps the reason is that they don't want people to start retroactively questioning the New York Times' credulous coverage of the claims of another bloodthirsty Islamist group that it has been quoting uncritically for over a year.
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