Radio ABC: "During the six years of World War Two, the New York Times published 1,186 stories about what was happening to the Jews of Europe .... or about 17 stories a month.
Sounds like a pretty good coverage, except that very few stories about the mass extermination of Jews by the Nazis, and the terrible events leading up to that tragedy, ever made it to the front page.
The reasons why this most influential of America's papers downplayed news of the Holocaust and Hitler's "Final Solution" are varied and complex.
In her acclaimed book Buried By The Times, Laurel Leff has analysed The New York Times's coverage of the Holocaust and reveals some of the motivations behind the way the newspaper covered the genocide." Listen here
