Posted on 02/25/2008 7:50:19 PM PST by jazusamo
The front page of the New York Times has increasingly become the home of editorials disguised as "news" stories. Too often it has become the home of hoaxes.
Going back some years, it was the Tawana Brawley hoax that she had been gang-raped by a bunch of white men. Just a couple of years ago, it was the Duke University "rape" hoax that they fell for.
In between there were the various hoaxes of New York Times reporter Jason Blair, who was kept on and promoted until too many people found out what he had been doing and the paper had to let him go.
Last month the New York Times created its own hoax with a long front page article about how war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were killing people back in the United States because of the stress they had gone through in combat.
That hoax was shot down two days later by the New York Post, which showed that the murder rate among returning war veterans was only one-fifth the murder rate among civilians in the same age brackets.
Undaunted, the New York Times has come up with its latest front-page sensation, the claim that some anonymous people either suspected an affair between Senator John McCain and a female lobbyist or tried to forestall an affair.
But apparently no one actually claimed that they knew there was an affair...
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
in before the ping? :)
:-)
Editorials state their opinions up front and have to back it up with facts. "News" hides opinion by redacting some facts and cherry-picking others.
The old gray lady with false teeth,and a Pinch for the far side of common sense.
Teacher's pet syndrome. As usual, Sowell "gets" the New York Times.
He’s a fine man.
It’s too bad the liberals mock him.
Agree, he got that exactly right.
This hadn't occurred to me, but I bet Dr. Sowell was a big hit with the ladies back then. Perhaps we need to get the opinions of some actual ladies around here...
Yes, but I’m not too sure it bothers him, he out thinks and out writes all of them.
Actually you are right...Pravda is far more truthful and objective than the Slimes on a whole host of issues.
As their circulation plummets, the Main Scream Media will effectively muzzle their own self. Can’t happen soon enough!
he's being generous. they don't "fall for" hoaxes, they promote them.
You're right about that - and thanks for the ping.
Absolutely.
oh he mentions that he is a ladies man (his wife of course) every time he subs for rush!
they create and then promote them
It can't be stated enough times ... well said, Invisible Hand
You’ve got him mixed up with Walter Williams whose wife just died.
>> “But it is doubtful if we have seen the last of the journalistic hoaxes.”
There is much to be said about the future of journalism should it retain its title as such. Sourcing, editorials, and syndication will continue to change and I believe for the better. The lease to the province of ‘news’ has expired.
More absolutely. :)
WW’s wife died? I’m sorry to hear it. But I have to say, in the years I listened to WW subbing for rush, WW often had some rude things to say about his wife. It was one of the things that started me turning off Ww when he filled in for Rush.
I hadn’t heard Thomas Sowell subbing for Rush. Thought it was Walter Williams.
ohhh that’s right...
ouch
I always took it as sarcastic humor.
BTTT
bttt
That has to be one of the smartest things I've ever read.
His comments about his wife were total sarcasm. I believed the relationship was quite the opposite. I always thought that he probably worshipped her, but this was his way to get at the feminazi’s.
I always took it as sarcastic humor.
How right you are. In radio, wife jokes are just that, jokes.
My favorite is when he said the most important thing his wife had to know is which end of the vacuum cleaner to hold.
Thomas Sowell for VP.
Unfortunately,He has too much integrity
and intellect for the job.
(Not to slight Dick Cheney).
I wonder where the Slimes got that idea from.
"there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood."
Good thinking, Smooth.
That could well be the turkey who planted that seed, I wouldn’t put anything past him.
You’re thinking about Walter Williams when He
substitutes for El Rushbo.
Still humorous,but we know who rules the roost
in the Williams coop.
It's not really all that different.
Kirk and Madsen openly espouse and refer to their own homosexual agenda as "unabashed propaganda," yet such characterization is found nowhere in the NYT, but rather, conservative and Christian politicians are routinely cowed into deafening silence at the mere thought of some Tammy-Baldwin- or Barney-Frank-type unabashedly, propagandistically calling them a moralistic, bigoted homophobe and it appearing in the NYT.
The entire Leftist coalition supports this lying propaganda aimed at school-based indoctrination and recruitment, and half the population continues to vote for politicians of that political "bent," and similar evil from lawmaker-killers of the world's most innocent.
Thomas Sowell (and others), tear this newspaper down!
But don't let me hijack the thread!
HF
an american treasure
In any newspaper . . . read the editorials for the news and the news for the editorial policy.
Well said!Of course, the planted axiom in that is that you don't need news that's less than a day or two old - and not even much of that.
The Market for Conservative-Based News
The declining credibility of the New York Times and of other tendentious media is, in one sense, a healthy thing. There has been too much public gullibility that has been cynically exploited by both the media and politicians.
Perfectly true.In another sense, however, it is a sad day for the country as a whole that there are shrinking sources of reliable news and informed and honest commentary.
Not true.I put it to you that the definition of subjectivity is believing in your own objectivity. And that it is just plain silly to look for "sources of reliable news and informed and honest commentary" among those who claim to be objective .
It's not as though Big Journalism was unbiased in some long-ago Eden. Journalism as we know it was formed with the advent of the telegraph and the Associated Press in the 1840s. In no time the AP was becoming monopolistic and, to deflect criticism of its role, was claiming to be "objective." And the AP was a government lapdog during the Lincoln Administration, taking government favors and censoring the news at the behest of the government. It may be hard to think of the consequences had it not done so. But for the people who were reading reports from the AP in their newspapers at the time, those newspapers were not "sources of reliable news and informed and honest commentary."
Then of course there was the role of the Hurst papers in fomenting the Spanish America War, and there is the coverup of the role of the Communist Party in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. The latter coverup, of course, is still in progress, with the use of the name of a flawed and human but responsible man as a byword for arrogant bullying of the innocent. That is precisely what Sowell is criticizing The New York Times for - but no newspaper or broadcast network calls their actions "McCarthyism." Because ultimately, the newspapers are not independent of each other - they are all part of the Associated Press, and are all thereby co-opted by the "objective journalism" scam.
The Market for Conservative-Based News
BTTT
(Speaking of Dan Rather...)
Bloggers and talk radio shot that one down.
Buckhead BUMP!
Citizen journalist BUMP!
BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
FR busted that one wide open! :) (Buckwheat, I think?) And Inc Pen did this:
I could go for that.
Well said, Diana!
There’s no doubt in my mind that fifteen or more years ago Rather’s incredible dishonesty would have gone unchallenged and supported by the vast majority of the media. John Kerry would have been elected president and George Bush would have gone down in history as a shirker.
Of course that was only the culmination of Rather’s dishonesty. I’ll always remember his ambush of General Westmoreland, Rather’s integrity was sadly lacking.
How I wish I would have been here at FR when the Rather, Bush thing was happening.
I agree with the subtext that ‘reliable news’ never existed.
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