Can You Trust the NY Times?
The most prominent news source in the world is the New York Times. Isn’t the Times the gold requirement of journalism?
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The most influential news source on the planet is the New York Times..
Every day, hundreds of papers, and television and cable news stations around the globe follow its lead– literally..
Why wouldn’t they?.
Isn’t the Times the gold requirement of journalism? The place where the truths of the story exist without predisposition or agenda?
Really, the response is no..
The New York Times has consistently failed to provide the public with unbiased journalism when it comes to episodes of significant historic significance. Instead, it has picked to make false stories– typically with catastrophic repercussions.
It has actually done this in service of its own monetary and ideological interests..
This returns, a minimum of, to 1932..
That year there was a terrible scarcity in the Ukraine. Between 5 and 7 million Ukranians starved to death. The disaster had nothing to do with bad weather condition and whatever to do with the ruthless routine of the Soviet totalitarian Joseph Stalin..
Walter Duranty, the Times foreign correspondent in Moscow, understood all of this and covered it up. His reports flatly rejected there was any starvation at all..
The American media took its lead from the Times star reporter. Did America’s political elite, consisting of newly-elected President Franklin Roosevelt who personally satisfied with Duranty to go over “the circumstance” in the Soviet Union..
Duranty had another admirer, Josef Stalin. The brutal autocrat had absolutely nothing but appreciation for the New York Times guy: “You have actually done a great job in your reporting of the USSR … due to the fact that you attempt to tell the truth about our nation.”.
Had Duranty exposed the truths about Stalin and the famine, the American people would have better understood the true nature of the Soviet Union. Instead, lots of were tricked..
When it came to reporting on the persecution of Jews in Germany leading up to World War II, the Times was even worse. If the Times didn’t believe the genocide of the Jews was a significant story, it should not be one.
In 1957, the Times turned this script. It took a minor story– a disobedience in Cuba– and turned it into a major one. While doing so, it helped ruin an entire country..
New York Times reporter, Herbert Matthews, located an all-but-defeated rebel named Fidel Castro at his mountain hideout..
From this interview came a flurry of front-page New York Times posts hailing Castro as Cuba’s democratic savior. The Times transformed the down-and-out Marxist revolutionary into a worldwide experience. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Times made Castro. Without its support, the Cuban revolution would have almost certainly stopped working..
An extremely similar phenomenon played out a few years later on in Southeast Asia. This time rather of making a hero out of a bad guy, the Times made a villain out of a hero..
With the paper’s blessing, a brash, young Times reporter, David Halberstam, chose that South Vietnamese elected leader Ngo Dinh Diem was a murderous madman. Captured up in the dominating leftist notion that the American war effort was unethical, which the North Vietnamese communists were the real freedom fighters, Halberstam composed piece after piece developed to reduce Diem. The one that did it was his reporting that the Diem government had massacred 30 Buddhist monks who were objecting Diem’s policies..
Just it didn’t take place. Halberstam produced it out of entire fabric, basing it on confidential sources and rumors..
When a United Nations group later examined the killings, they discovered that all the “killed” Buddhists were alive and well.
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The most influential news source in the world is the New York Times. When it came to reporting on the persecution of Jews in Germany leading up to World War II, the Times was even worse. If the Times didn’t think the genocide of the Jews was a significant story, it must not be one.
From this interview came a flurry of front-page New York Times short articles hailing Castro as Cuba’s democratic hero. With the paper’s blessing, a bold, young Times reporter, David Halberstam, chose that South Vietnamese elected leader Ngo Dinh Diem was a murderous madman.
