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Times Didn't Hide Holocaust, Just Buried It

(New York Daily News) Sidney Zion - It's a given that the New York Times ignored the Holocaust. Now we have a book that says it ain't so - that from the beginning to the end of World War II, the Times published 1,186 stories about the extermination of the European Jews. It just buried the stories inside. Buried by The Times, by Laurel Leff, a professor of journalism and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, proves that the Times not only knew about the Holocaust but printed many of the horrific details. In the six years of the war, just 26 pieces made the front page, half of them in 1944, when most of the Jews were dead. And only a half-dozen mentioned that Jews were the victims.
2005-04-22 00:00:00
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