Buried by the Times

Buried by the Times a book by Laurel Leff, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, is an account of the New York Times' coverage of Nazi atrocities against Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. The book makes the argument that the paper's publisher deliberately chose to "bury" such news in the back pages for ideological reasons. According to the book Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who was publisher of the Times from 1935 to 196... More

Buried by the Times a book by Laurel Leff, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, is an account of the New York Times' coverage of Nazi atrocities against Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. The book makes the argument that the paper's publisher deliberately chose to "bury" such news in the back pages for ideological reasons. According to the book Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who was publisher of the Times from 1935 to 1961, took the position that Jewishness is solely a matter of belief, that it does not and ought not to have any ethnic or national component, no ethnic peoplehood. He opposed the creation of a Jewish state. His political commitments were to the United States and to universalism. He did not want the Times to be or even appear to be too Jewish. According to Leff, Sulzberger went out of his way to ensure the Times would not portray Jews as the particular victims of Nazism, gave very little print to the news of genocide targeting Jews as it emerged...

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