“US factchecks New York Times for sanitising Pahalgam massacre as militant shooting instead of Islamist terror attack”, Organiser, April 25, 2025:
“The brutal terror attack on April 22 in the tourist haven of Pahalgam, J&K, has not only left 26 civilians dead—including women and children—but has also triggered a transatlantic diplomatic storm over media bias, narrative sanitisation, and the global war on terror.
As Bharat mourns its dead, the United States government—across branches and parties—has launched a searing critique of The New York Times (NYT) for what it calls a “dangerous editorial distortion” in covering the carnage. The NYT’s headline, “At Least 24 Tourists Gunned Down by Militants in Kashmir,” drew sharp condemnation for describing the perpetrators as “militants” and “gunmen” instead of what they are: Islamist terrorists affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based proscribed group.
In an extraordinary public rebuke, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee took to X and posted a screenshot of NYT’s headline—striking out the word “militants” and replacing it in bold red with “TERRORISTS……..”
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