THE NEW YORK TIMES STEPS INTO THE BIGGEST BLAME THE VICTIM ARTICLE BY BEING INSENSITIVE TO THE 6 IRISH STUDENTS TRAGIC DEATH FROM A BUILDING COLLAPSE IT SEEMS - AS THE ARTICLE BRINGS IRE TO THE IRISH PEOPLE

A major US newspaper has apologised over what its own ombudsman said was an “insensitive” article about the death of six Irish students in a building collapse amid a flurry of complaints that said the report had blamed the victims.

The public ombudsman of the New York Times said she had received “hundreds” of complaints about the article on the building collapse and the death of the students. Five of the young people were from Ireland while the sixth was a joint US-Irish citizen who lived in California.

The Irish Ambassador to Ireland, Anne Anderson, was among those who criticised the report and published an open letter on Wednesday in which she said the inference of the article had caused “great offence”.

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