(Jewish Group) NYT says its story about Gaza poetry class 'did not accurately reflect' views

New York Times says its story about Gaza poetry class ‘did not accurately reflect’ professor’s views on Israeli poetry

A professor in Gaza whom the New York Times profiled as “calmly teaching Israeli poetry” has in fact derided Israeli poems in class, according to a 266-word editor’s note the newspaper appended to the original story Tuesday.

The article, written by the paper’s Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley and published last month, “did not accurately reflect” Refaat Alareer’s views of Israeli poetry, according to the note.

“Had The Times done more extensive reporting on Mr. Alareer, the article would have presented a more complete picture,” the note read.

The article, billed as a “Gaza City Dispatch,” featured Alareer, a Palestinian professor of literature in Gaza, as he taught a poem by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. It casts Alareer’s teaching of Israeli poetry — and his praise of it — as an anomaly in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

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The NYT has really become a crap shoot in regards to veracity and commitment to information.