[lit-ideas] Re: Bullying Iran - New York Times

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:30:36 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

FAIR is advocacy journalism?  Advocacy of what?  My FAIR postings said that the 
NYT, WP, ABC, etc. get their news from government, which is to say, White 
House, sources.  They don't dig up facts; they print what they're told by the 
administration.  You have read nothing in those FAIR postings.  




-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 4, 2007 11:19 AM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bullying Iran - New York Times
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>AA:
>>>Seems like reading doesn't get in your way either.  I didn't write 
>>>Dangerous Nation.  Robert Kagan,  Fred Kagan's brother, wrote it.  Robert 
>>>Kagan works for the American Enterprise Institute.  Never mind.<<
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>What we're calling for from you is evidence.  Not opinion.  I can produce a 
>long list of editorials and opinion pieces from the NYT that oppose the war 
>in Iraq and warn against any temptation to invade Iran.  The NYT is the 
>newspaper of record for this country.  It is not an organ of advocacy 
>journalism as are most of the sources you cite.  I like reading articles and 
>magazines that support my opinion, but I don't confuse them with the factual 
>record.  The NYT's mission is  not to support or contradict your personal 
>opinions.  Are you correct in your claim that the NYT failed to critically 
>analyse reports and policies of the Bush Administration in the initial days 
>and weeks of the invasion?  Yes, you are.  Like the majority of people in 
>this country they got it wrong.  Especially in accepting Judith Miller's 
>reports without due scepticism.  That's a terrible failing but it's not 
>surprising -- what's surprising is that they recognized their error, 
>publically acknowledged it and apologized for their credulity.  For three 
>years now, the editorial page of the NTY has been filled with dire warnings 
>about the war and our policies with Iran.  Read them, you'll agree with them 
>and you'll find in them proof positive of how bright you are.  But as 
>evidence, the editorial page is meaningless, what matters is whether the NYT 
>is digging out the truth about what's going on beneath all the government 
>reports.  Are they doing that now?  Only time will tell, but I trust them 
>more than I do Mother Jones even though I enjoy reading Mother Jones more.
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>Mike Geary
>Memphis
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