News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition

In this news brief episode of Citations Needed, Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson discuss the media's coverage of the genocide in Gaza, particularly focusing on how major media outlets downplay the severity of the situation by highlighting pre-existing health conditions of Gazan victims, thereby obscuring Israeli responsibility. Joined by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, they critique The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC for issuing corrections or updates that emphasize comorbidities, framing preventable deaths as inevitable. They also analyze a Free Press article that accuses major outlets of journalistic malpractice by omitting context about victims' pre-existing conditions, arguing that such reporting employs eugenicist logic and inverts victimhood to silence critique and protect genocide.