Just following in Uncle Walter's footsteps.
Posted on 09/11/2022 3:06:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Hey, no bias there!
This week the world learned of the passing of England’s 96 year old Queen Elizabeth II. A couple weeks ago Russia’s 91 year old Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Communist Soviet Union, passed away. And the difference in coverage in the media was, shall we say, interesting.
The New York Times published an essay by one Maya Jasanoff. Jasanoff is described as “a professor of history at Harvard, is the author of three books about the British Empire and its subjects.” The title of her essay:
Mourn the Queen, Not Her Empire
Among other things Professor Jasanoff says this on the Times pages beneath a photo of the Queen with the leaders of the British Commonwealth:
“What you would never know from the pictures — which is partly their point — is the violence that lies behind them. In 1948 the colonial governor of Malaya declared a state of emergency to fight communist guerrillas, and British troops used counterinsurgency tactics the Americans would emulate in Vietnam.”
Fighting communist guerrillas is bad? Hmmm. Also, 1948? Elizabeth didn’t become queen until 1952.
Contrast this with the Times obituary of Gorbachev’s death.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91
Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, he weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, presiding over the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
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Maybe The NY Times has a bunch of communists there.
Woke Fascists
Give those guys another Pulitzer! Propping up Big Brother is double-plus good!
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Queen Elizabeth was queen for nearly half of the 20th century. Gorbachev was in power for 7 years (1985-1991). Hardly any important figures from the 20th century are still around. There’s Jimmy Carter (President for 4 years and a kind of annoying mosquito ever since), Bill Clinton (President for the last 8 years of the century), and a few “well-known” people who didn’t actually run any governments (the Dalai Lama, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, a few others)—pretty much all from the last third of the century only.
The Times has been an enemy to democracy and pro communist for decades. No big surprise they haven’t changed and they never will.
Just following in Uncle Walter's footsteps.
It is not called “Pravda on the Hudson” for nothing.
That is the title the NYSlimes should best be known by.
Precisely.
Oh, but i know the NY Times to be useful. Usually find an unread stack in the recycling bin, i pickup a clean fat copy. My African Grey screams “Paper, Paper”, and shreds folded new pages that fall to the bottom of his cage before he poops his opinions.
MAYBE????
They did the same thing when Mother Teresa died 1 week after Diana. It was disgusting.
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