The Truth, Nothing but the Truth
Laurel Leff, Arthur Neslen
In Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, Laurel Leff examined the many decisions that were made along the chain-of-command of the New York Times that ultimately resulted in minimising, misunderstanding and diluting the reporting of the Holocaust.
She described how journalists in New York, London, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Bucharest and Jerusalem reacted to news as it reached their bureaus. Leff, along with Arthur Neslen who was until recently the London correspondent for Al-Jazeera and their only Jewish journalist, grappled with the question of how journalists understand and evaluate horrific unprecedented events.
Laurel Leff is a professor of journalism. She was a professional journalist for 18 years reporting for the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald.
Arthur NeslenArthur Neslen worked for the BBC between 2001 and 2004 and used to be the London correspondent of Al Jazeera.net. He has written for The Guardian, The Independent, TheObserver, the New Statesman and Private Eye. He is the author of Occupied Minds, A Journey through the Israeli Psyche.
Jon Silverman
Jon Silverman is Professor of Media & Criminal Justice at the University of Bedfordshire. He’s the former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent who won the Sony Gold award for his reporting on Nazi war crimes inquiries in the 1990s. He’s the author of three books on subjects ranging from crack cocaine to paedophiles and is currently writing a book for Oxford University Press on the UK’s war crimes investigations, 1945-2000.
