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Aside from the racism of the column’s headline—note that it’s different to say that some individuals in an ethnic group are “crazy rich” than it is to say that a group as a whole is poor because they’re crazy—it’s just empirically wrong to suggest that Middle Eastern countries are poorer as a whole than Asian countries.
The New York Times has the ability to report on woes in other countries without recognizing that its own country has troubles that are similar or worse.
What counts as “far left” to the Washington Post, the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest human?
A New York Times op-ed argued that conservatives make better partners for liberals than progressives, because “one can debate how much to conserve.”
But when a journalist sets out—“guided by one main question”—to understand the roots of devastating violence in a particular city, and fails so utterly to take the overwhelming role of Washington intervention into account, the complete erasure of quite recent, utterly relevant events is startling.
None of the ideas described in a New York Times feature as “That Which Cannot Be Said” are remotely taboo; they’re the kind of things that are said routinely in outlets like the New York Times.
What counts as “far left” to the Washington Post, the newspaper owned by the world’s richest human?
Journalists know very well how to include the identity of the killers in the headline—when they think that’s information that’s important for the reader to know.
As the Trump administration pulls out of the multinational agreement about Iran’s nuclear energy program and generally tries to ramp up hostility toward Tehran, once again seeing a raft of news reports illustrated with photos whose essential visual message is that Iran hates freedom.
None of the supposedly taboo ideas listed by New York Times columnist Bari Weiss are remotely taboo; they’re the kind of things that are expressed routinely in outlets like the New York Times.
Despite his stated objective, the New York Times’ Declan Walsh seemed to go out of his way to avoid talking about how Libya has come to be a place where major cities are turned to rubble.
It’s not surprising that the US and North Korea view the history of Libyan disarmament differently, when the New York Times can’t even agree with the New York Times about it.
An op-ed about why Democrats should call themselves “liberals” and not “progressives” hits most of the main points of the New York Times’ ideology.
The rise of social media platforms like Twitter (launched in 2006) and Facebook (opened to the general public in the same year) allowed people to share news and opinions directly, giving them an opportunity to gravitate towards outlets and outlooks that resonate with them.
If you want the support of working-class whites without engaging in xenophobia or other forms of race-baiting, the obvious approach is to appeal to them as members of the working class. But Thomas Edsall seems to have another agenda.
The rise of social media platforms like Twitter (launched in 2006) and Facebook (opened to the general public in the same year) allowed people to share news and opinions directly, giving them an opportunity to gravitate towards outlets and outlooks that resonate with them.
Journalism lost one of its most valuable investigators when Robert Parry died on January 27, from pancreatic cancer, at the age of 68. He was the first reporter to reveal Oliver North’s operation in the White House basement (AP, 6/10/1985), and the co-author of the first report on Contra drug-smuggling (AP, 12/21/1985). He did some […]
Reporting on the epidemic of mass shootings, All Things Considered gave a platform to the gun debate’s equivalents of anti-vaxxers, and gave no scrutiny to their claim that more guns are the solution to gun violence.
Journalism lost one of its most valuable investigators when Robert Parry died on January 27, at the age of 68.
If, as a journalist, you inform people about illegal activities, you may be found guilty of committing those activities—unless, in a reversal of the usual burden of proof in criminal cases, you provide evidence that you were reporting “for a purpose inconsistent with participation.”
