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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas (defector.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated.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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Snowden and Assange aren't half joking about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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] 1 points 3 days ago

The story is decent enough but holy shit the comments on that link are cancer