They make it seem like he was part of a long tradition, when, if anything he was a short aberration. In the thirties this fabrication fabricated for Stalin. In the 50s, for Castro. In the 60s for Johnson/McNamara killing machine.
The Rag of Record has been sopping up leftist drool for all of the last 120 years and I only limit it because I am not familiar with their content in the 19th century.
Exactly right. Rosenthal's virtue is wildly overstated. It's true the NYT tried a little harder to make itself respectable when it was expected to make handsome profits, but it has always slanted Left. Cold War scrutiny kept them from going open Communist like they are now.
Agree whole heartedly!
Might want to check out the book, Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper