[lit-ideas] Re: the latest body count
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:19:47 -0400
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> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 7/21/2005 12:54:06 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: the latest body count
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> > The NYT has already publically apologized for their journalistic
> > failures in covering the war.
>
> If they did, I missed it. What they apologized for, I believe, was their
> non-coverage before the invasion of the sham 'reasons' Bush adduced for
> going to war, and for their not digging in and finding out the real
> state of affairs in Iraq, until it was too late. This failure, of
> course, they shared with every other US newspaper, magazine, or
> television network. There was an eerie dead zone in the media until
> practically the last minute?during which the public had nothing to go
> on but Chairman Rove and General Rumsfeld's pronouncements.
>
A.A. The NYT leads the pack. They are the paper of record. There is no
excuse for this. They consistently put profits and agenda ahead of facts.
In my opinion they are closet Bush supporters and Republicans. Why else
lead an attack on Clinton during Whitewater publishing one false allegation
after another as if it was fact, dragging the country through all that mud.
Why else no nose for news during Bush's push to invade Iraq, even as the
entire world was protesting against it. They are like pharma in that they
care about their shareholders, not their readers. In addition to which,
they promote ideologies. I can't believe people still read them for news.
Andy Amago
> Robert Paul
> The Reed Institute
>
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