New York Times-Style Journalism
NYT spurns truth and full disclosure.
by Stephen Lendman
Like other major media scoundrels, New York Times writers, op-ed commentators and editorials fail the test. They're biased, shameless and irresponsible, especially on issues of war and peace.
Times tradition dates from 1896 when Ochs-Sulzberger family members took control. Thereafter, it's played the lead print role distorting, censoring, and suppressing truth and full disclosure.
Its shameful record includes:
- supporting wealth and power interests;
- backing corporate interests against popular ones mattering most;
- cheerleading imperial wars;
- ducking major issues like government and corporate crimes, sham elections, America's duopoly power, an unprecedented wealth gap, and lost civil liberties and social benefits; and
- backing regime change in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Iran and Syria, mindless of international laws prohibiting it.
The record of the "newspaper of record" produces misinformation masquerading as real news, information and opinion. Its slogan "All The News That's Fit to Print" fails on truth and full disclosure.
Its war against Iran is longstanding. Against Syria, it's more recent. It promotes regime change in both countries. On January 31, Times writer Rick Gladstone attacked them in his article headlined, "As Syria Wobbles Under Pressure, Iran Feels the Weight of an Alliance," saying:
Pro-Western anti-Assad insurgents increased "pressure on (him) to step down...." As a result, "his main Middle East supporter, also finds itself under siege, undermining a once-powerful partnership and longtime American foe."If Assad falls, "Tehran would lose its conduit for providing military, financial, and logistical support to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza." Both Israeli opposition groups "considered terrorist organizations by Washington, have vast arsenals of rockets and other weapons."
