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Article: The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: New York Times Buried Holocaust News, Book Reveals
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- U.S. Newswire
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- March 14, 2005
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PHILADELPHIA, March 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The New York Times
consistently buried news of the Nazi Holocaust in its back pages and
downplayed the Jewish identity of the victims, according to the first
scholarly study of how the Times covered the Nazi genocide.
Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important
Newspaper, by Prof. Laurel Leff, has just been published by Cambridge
University Press. Prof. Leff, a former reporter and editor who
teaches journalism at Northeastern University, is a leading member of
the Academic Council of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust
Studies. The Wyman Institute is organizing Prof. Leff's speaking
appearances around the country.
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