A former New York Times employee accused the paper of having a systemic “anti-Israel bias” which infects its reporting and produces “biased and unreliable” stories that misinform its readers, according to a new lawsuit.
The whistleblower — who worked on the paper’s video desk from 2016 until earlier this year — is a Jewish woman who asked to remain anonymous. She pointed to at least 15 examples where the paper’s alleged bias against Israel sabotaged its work, both before and after the Hamas terrorist attack in October 2023. She also said the paper’s HR department was hostile when she pointed out its coverage was inappropriately slanted.
“Highlighting the deep inversion of journalistic controls within The New York Times operations, the response to the Whistleblower from the Human Resources department about the reporting of many instances of anti-Israel bias by fellow journalists was stark: ‘If you don’t like our values here, maybe you should go find a place whose values align with yours,'” the lawsuit claimed.
The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by the State Board of Administration of Florida on behalf of Florida’s retirement system and the National Center for Public Policy Research in the New York state court system; The Free Press was the first outlet to report it.
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