Posted on 07/05/2008 9:42:36 AM PDT by Jbny
There’s a distracting occupational quirk among New York Times writers who file stories on Iraq. See if you can spot it in these examples pulled from the past year or so.
The parade was a response to one held last year in Ramadi by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an insurgent group linked to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni insurgent group that American intelligence officials say has foreign leadership. –October 24, 2007
. . . in search of 200 insurgents with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the largely homegrown Sunni insurgent group that American intelligence says is foreign led and now represents the principal threat to stability in Iraq. –January 9, 2008
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Whole lota cutin’ and pastin’ going on among those Nytimese people?
LOL!
“Putz”
Bump! This post deserves better than to sink unnoticed.
NYT's first report on July 3rd of the Colombian rescue was below the fold and relatively small:
Then they woke up to the fact that more objective media were reporting this with prominence it deserved. Here's their front page for July 4th:
My take: The lefty editors hated the idea of reporting a big win for Uribe and a big loss for the Marxist FARC. Semi-sanity was imposed by their reading/viewing other media.
Usually Day One of any big story has the big splash with subsequent in depth reportage given smaller prominence.
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