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NYT Assigns Reporter to "Islam Beat"
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| Stephen Spruiell
Posted on 06/26/2006 9:46:48 PM PDT by hipaatwo
The NYT has assigned Neil MacFarquhar to cover a new national beat: Islam. The TimesWatch topic index on MacFarquhar turns up instances in which MacFarquhar refused to label groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad as terrorist outfits, writing instead that the groups have been "'labeled' so by Israel and the U.S.," or calling individual members "Palestinian opponent[s] to [Israeli] occupation." MacFarquhar tells the San Francisco Chronicle:
It's a new beat for the Times: an immigration story, with a lot of immigrants from Muslim countries; a ... story about the difficulties they have integrating in the U.S.; a civil rights story, with a lot them facing difficulties in the wake of 9/11; and a cultural story, with Muslim artists coming from around the world. It's a nice mix. It's not designed to be a terrorism or theological beat. It's more about people.
Will this be anything other than a space for groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations to air their various grievances? Or will it be more like the "conservative beat" the NYT created in 2004 — a sort of condescending look at an outside group the NYT doesn't really understand.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; mooselimbs; muslim; muslims; nytimes; treason; wot
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posted on
06/26/2006 9:46:50 PM PDT
by
hipaatwo
To: Mo1; Peach; Txsleuth
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posted on
06/26/2006 9:47:13 PM PDT
by
hipaatwo
To: hipaatwo
Gotta hand it to the NY Times. In a matter of months, this paper will have all the credibility and political rantings of the local FREE Rag Sheet of the left here in Los Angeles: L A Weekly. It has to be given away because noone will buy it. Sounds like the Old Gray Lady is about to live the same fate. Or we can only hope
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posted on
06/26/2006 9:54:04 PM PDT
by
antonico
To: hipaatwo
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posted on
06/26/2006 9:59:17 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePb6H-j51xE&search=Democrats)
To: hipaatwo
I'm sure the articles will be written by CAIR.
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posted on
06/26/2006 10:02:04 PM PDT
by
ozoneliar
("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
To: hipaatwo
and the MSM wonders why circulation keeps falling..
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posted on
06/26/2006 10:04:26 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info)
To: hipaatwo
Hope he's wearing Body Armour on his Back!
Pray for W and Our Troops
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posted on
06/26/2006 10:08:20 PM PDT
by
bray
(Hey Zaqueeri, say hello to Hitler, Stalin and Mohamhead)
To: hipaatwo
The Islam beat would have a lot to cover.
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posted on
06/26/2006 10:11:13 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: hipaatwo
Neil MacFarquhar MACFarquhar? So, the guy's from Scotland? ppppppphhhhhhhhhlllllllllbbbbbbbppppppp!
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posted on
06/26/2006 10:27:30 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
To: hipaatwo
At least they assigned a man. :)
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posted on
06/26/2006 10:42:23 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: hipaatwo
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posted on
06/26/2006 11:11:57 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(There is no way we can lose if we stay in Iraq and no way we can win if we cut and run.)
To: hipaatwo
the Times's new publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr ... was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
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posted on
06/26/2006 11:13:56 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
To: hipaatwo
Muslim civil rights abuses? Too New Yorkers have forgotten 9/11. Won't this be special.
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posted on
06/27/2006 3:38:10 AM PDT
by
Peach
(Iraq/AlQaeda relationship http://markeichenlaub.blogspot.com/2006/06/strategic-relationship-between.)
To: msnimje
ISLAM BEAT
"All the irony fit to print."
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posted on
06/27/2006 4:26:46 AM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: hipaatwo
" a ... story about the difficulties they have integrating in the U.S.; a civil rights story, with a lot them facing difficulties in the wake of 9/11; and a cultural story, with Muslim artists coming from around the world. It's a nice mix. It's not designed to be a terrorism or theological beat. It's more about people."
There is no doubt the heart of the times lies with our enemies.
These people don't have difficulties integrating, they have difficulties trying to assimilate us into their cult. Although they seem to have acquired the NYT.
The wake of 9/11 didn't make muslims victims, it gave us 3000 reasons to know the hate that is the "heart" of islam
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posted on
06/27/2006 4:33:05 AM PDT
by
Kakaze
(American: a Citizen of the United States of America........not just some resident of said continent)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
More Islam Beat:
NYT ROTOGRAVURE SECTION
By Neil Spinmeister
"BIT'S 'N PIECES"
____________________
(Top photo) Patriotic vendors prepare to set up fireworks
display booth at the Fourth of July Parade.
'It's a family tradition,' they said.
(Bottom photo) Neighbors works feverishly to rescue
woman trapped in sinkhole. 'She was standing next
to a big pile of stones and everything
just started caving in,' a witness said.
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