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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The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated.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 […]

Archived version without paywall: https://archive.is/yE3mF

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've read the NYT article, and I can't see anywhere where the author 'sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children's entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might be financially compensated by Hamas.' Instead they report that 'the advocacy group StopAntisemitism' 'sent a letter urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether Accurso is receiving funding to further Hamas’s agenda.'

The article as a whole seems pretty positive towards Miss Rachel, and uses her comments to point out how bad things are in Gaza, and insinuates that StopAntisemitism are the problematic ones.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the advocacy group StopAntisemitism' 'sent a letter

That's my problem with the article. This letter is meaningless. They might as well report "crazy people send crazy message and are promptly ignored". Why give them a voice?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

From the rest of the article I very much got the 'crazy people send crazy message' message, but I can see how that might depend on the reader.

You say the letter is meaningless, but I think we have to be careful. Sesame Street teaches kindness, inclusivity and caring, and I think the republicans would be only too happy for an excuse to tear it down.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 74 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Snowden and Assange aren't half joking about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day 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 30 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

This was the case long before Gulf wars.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago

Yeah fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

New York Crimes

[–] rc__buggy 17 points 1 day ago

That article is bullshit

https://archive.ph/fmFeS

There's the NYT article about Ms. Rachel. Nowhere in there do they accuse her of being funded by Hamas, they just soft-peddle the agitator group that DID accuse her.

Standard mayo sandwich bullshit, but they never even talked to Ms. Rachel, so how could they "ask her if she's paid by hamas"?

[–] Quacksalber 26 points 1 day ago

Someone needs to kick that interviewers face in. Being a lobbyist and asking loaded question is one thing, but being a journalist for a newspaper that understands itself to be a pillar of democracy and asking such an obvious bullshit question needs to be met with a harsh reaction.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

The original NYT article for those interested

[–] ReputedlyDeplorable 11 points 1 day ago

Oh, so how dare a (checks notes) children’s entertainer give a fuck about children!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I never really had much thought about Ms. Rachel but now that I have a little more information, she is a gem!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Lies always work better when surrounded by truth

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago

The nyt? Oh you mean the non stop American media propaganda machine nyt... that one??

Who pays their bills and bonuses???