"First there is no famine, then there is". To be fair, the Times is just honoring its long, storied tradition of publishing hoaxes concerning starvation

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“There is no truth to rumors of famine in stalin’s new russia”

And now:

NYT Photographer Gets Pulitzer for Hoax Photo

This is the perfect metaphor for the state of prestige journalism today. 

The NYT and the photographer Saher Alghorra were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a photograph purporting to show a Gazan child who was starving to death due to Israeli sanctions. 

The photograph did not show that. Instead, it showed a child in Gaza who was suffering from a genetic disease. The NYT had to retract the story and admit the photos they printed did not show what they purported to.