<p>Several editors and reporters cautioned The New York Times against running with the Gaza hospital story based solely on a Palestinian source, but senior editors reportedly ignored the warnings.</p>
<p>According to a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/new-york-times-gaza-hospital-story?redirectURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F10%2Fnew-york-times-gaza-hospital-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published by Vanity Fair on Tuesday, the story was discussed on an internal Slack channel — where several editors and a reporter raised concerns about the veracity of the information, particularly when the source was considered.</p>
<p>Shortly after the first version of the story was published — titled &#8220;Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinian Officials Say&#8221; — one senior editor tagged two others in the Slack channel #Israel-briefings and proposed a more direct version of the initial story lede.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we can be a bit more direct in the lead: At least 500 people were killed on Tuesday by an Israel airstrike at a hospital in Gaza City, the Palestinian authorities said,&#8221; the editor wrote, prompting one of the tagged individuals to reply, &#8220;You don’t want to hedge it?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Better to hedge,&#8221; a junior reporter who was on the ground in Israel agreed.</p>
<p>The senior news editor shrugged off the criticism, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;re attributing&#8221; — suggesting that because they had attributed the headline&#8217;s claim to Palestinian officials, they were not culpable for any part of that claim that might turn out to be inaccurate.</p>
<p>One of the outlet&#8217;s international editors pushed back, saying that the front page headline — despite the attribution — went &#8220;way too far.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How is it different than the blog hed?&#8221; another senior editor objected, adding, &#8220;They both say Israeli strike kills, per Palestinians.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The international editor pushed back, saying, &#8220;I think we can’t just hang the attribution of something so big on one source without having tried to verify it and then slap it across the top of the [home page]. Putting the attribution at the end doesn’t give us cover, if we’ve been burned and we’re wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>The information from the &#8220;Palestinian officials&#8221; did, in fact, turn out to be false. Instead of an &#8220;Israeli strike,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-intel-gives-new-high-confidence-assessment-about-what-happened-with-gaza-hospital-explosion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosion was caused</a> by a rocket fired by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-hamas-write-this-cbs-trashed-for-gaza-hospital-story-that-still-blames-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">terrorists inside Gaza</a> — and rather than striking the hospital itself, the rocket fell on a parking lot. The estimated death toll was not the 500 or so civilians and children that the original sources claimed, but was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-lied-number-of-estimated-deaths-at-gaza-hospital-hit-by-rocket-lower-than-palestinian-claims-reports-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">likely between 10 and 50</a>.</p>
<p>The NYT <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-concedes-too-much-reliance-on-hamas-claims-for-hospital-blast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted to recover</a> after nearly every aspect of the initial story was debunked, issuing a statement claiming that they had &#8220;relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified.&#8221;</p>
<p>The note added, &#8220;The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.&#8221;</p>

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