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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas (defector.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26082031

The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disastrous when applied to a recent article which sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might […]

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[–] RowRowRowYourBot 76 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The New York Times is a trash news source. I wish more realized this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

People seem to have either forgot or just not know the NYT has always had a neocon, jingoist, America BEST superiority complex when it comes to anything approaching 'foreign policy'.

Does... everyone remember when they spent a whole lot of time amplifying the Bush admin's bogus claims and outright lies justifying the GWOT, Iraq invasion 2 electric boogaloo?

Hyped up the 'threat' from Iran, to functionally make Obama and the Dems seem weak on foreign policy?

And that's just in my lifetime...

Any whoosie, I'm sure that's all just a coincidence and is in no way related to the CIA's vast, documented history of involvement in and manipulation of US domestic media publications.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My grandfather used to half-jokingly call them the CIA's press wing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Snowden and Assange aren't half joking about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Judith Miller sucks.

From Wikipedia:

Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948)[1] is an American journalist and commentator who is known for writing about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion, but her writings were later discovered to have been based on fabricated intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The weird part is that they're not; NYT does a lot of good journalism, sometimes even on Palestine, but then they go around and pull shit like this.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Were ypu around for the invasion of Iraq in 2003? Maybe the elections in 2024? The NYT has been a dedicated propaganda source attempting to direct the conversation more than it tries to inform for decades now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

This was the case long before Gulf wars.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do you remember Judith Miller and the leading role the NYT took lying the US into the war in Iraq? Whatever "good" journalism the NYT does, it's just to buy them the legitimacy they need to spread the lies that matter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If there were a doctor that saves 99% of his patients but actively kills every 100th then that isnt a very good doctor.

For a newspaper the acceptable frequency of lying about and protecting genocidal maniacs is zero. If you fail this absolute basic level of journalistic dilligence your entire newspaper becomes worthless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm with you. Great journalists doing vital reporting around the world. However, the Times as a company is shit, the editorials as garbage, and the prioritization of stories is neocon AF

News is a critical industry; like anything it is corruptible and in a capitalist system corruption via greed is inevitable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

New York Crimes