The US newspaper of record, displayed in all libraries and used by students in junior high, high school, college and university is as much a corporate whore as are the sordid sex, crime, and scandals featuring news tabloids.
They all monger war for the giant corporate governance of America, now openly led by the industrial-military complex of conglomerates with interconnected interests and ownership control interlocked with the big six that own the TV channels and radio stations.
But the ancient good 'ol boy family that owns and operates the NY Times enjoys prestige by virtue of the sophisticated language and literary merit of the America's number one newspaper. This ostensibly elevates NY Times prostitution for big business above the rest of corporate owned media efforts. Time, Newsweek and US and World Report magazines run a modicum of competition for the Times preeminence with slick photo opts, which, when necessary have the power to either drive fear into the hearts of their readers or make Americans look wonderful and distract them from whatever current crimes against humanity business interests require the US be undertaking under false justifications.
The Times retains the highest academic standing and is respected for its 'cultured' methods of innuendo and half-truths in misrepresenting or clothing capitalist goals and intentions. Its stands far and above the tabloids boorish, blunt in the face, use of giant bold print screaming headlines calling US enemies 'Dirty Rats' as applied to 'Reds', 'Commies', 'Cong', and to internal enemies like 'Pinkos', 'Peaceniks', 'Traitors', 'Sympathizers' in order to slander US citizens demonstrating against US killing field foreign policies.
The NY Times skewers the national priorities within parameters of 'flexible' presentation of what it chooses as important news, almost never allowing and light of information to fall on human degradation or suffering caused by the system of privileges it, as a co-elite, is beholden to protect from criticism. But to keep its reputation as a source of documentation, it must show true situations from time to time.
For a half-year, the Times had, surprisingly, been showing photos of Iraqi and Afghani children in the arms of their fathers dying from US air strikes. But in December it was suddenly back to support for the occupations, highlighting occupation success stories and statistics. Christmas day the Times front page featured a color photo of a US soldier dressed as Santa Claus "touching down in Iraq" as the caption read, from an attack helicopter. (Happy Jesus Birthday America! from the NY Times)
Presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich is making himself a corporate governance troublemaker, having introduced bills of impeachment and speaking out unequivocally in favor of ending the wars of occupation.
Dec. 30, 2007, NY Times prints across the open pages 16 - 17 photos of Democratic and Republican candidates under the title: "After a Long Campaign, Issues Emerge and Presidential Candidates Shape Their Stances" Candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s name and photo is amazingly just plain missing, and not even a mention of his 'stances', though each and every other candidate is covered in detail!
Damn! Can one call the NY Times and complain? No, not since many years.
Well, how 'bout calling the Federal Elections Commission? No. In the US there is 'free press'. The Times is 'free' to eliminate from consideration anyone it pleases. The TV channels previously eliminated anti-Vietnam War Senator candidate Mike Gravel from the debates. On his last permitted debate Gravel said, "they died, and they are dying now, in vain!" The last time your author called the FEC to ask how the commission could have accepted Ralph Nader, a bonafide federal funds receiving candidate, being blocked from participation in TV debates, there was at least a nervous response, "Yes, we have some uneasiness about Nader's exclusion and we intend to look into this more." That was in back in 2000. America has since progressed in delimiting 'democratic' elections.
No! The NY Times says Kucinich is a non-reportable candidate, and that's that. As the sad saying goes, ‘That's all she wrote.’ - candidate Chris Dodd (who?), does appear on page 16, with photo and with his not so unique 'stance' on each of the listed issues. But then Chris Dodd has not been making waves.
One imagines that the mindless and amorphous monster, the NY Times prostitutes itself for, has heard just about enough of Kucinich's impeachment bills. The Times has religiously grossly under-reporting the swelling, impeachment movement around the nation. So much for ethical journalism regarding national and domestic affairs in America.
Further regarding the NY Times reporting according to its motto, "All the news that is fit to print", on page 8 we read yet another NY Times 'informative' reporting about the lack of complete democracy in Hong Kong.
As in previous articles it features US and British criticism of China. But how to hook American understanding to a preposterous British concern for its erstwhile colonial subjects, when during its hundred year imperial reign of part of China, Britain allowed a prominent sign at the entrance to Hong Kong Island Cathedral Park that read, "No Chinese or Dogs Allowed.")
The Times dutifully reports the present 'incomplete' democracy in Hong Kong elections without ever admitting that the half of the seats in the Legislative Council, which are not directly elected by Hong Kong citizens at large, are indeed elected by Hong Kong citizen members of the societal constituencies representing various sectors of the community. These Functional Constituencies are: Rural Assembly, Agriculture and fisheries, Insurance, Financial services, Transport, Accountancy, Finance, Education, Legal, Information Technology, Medical Health services, Architectural, surveying and planning, Real estate and construction, Social welfare, Real estate and construction, Tourism, Commercial (2 seats), Industrial (2), Import and export, Wholesale and retail, Textiles and garment, Sport, performing arts, culture and publication, Catering, District Council, Labor (3), Tourism.
One takes it for obvious that the powers that be are want to have the US public know about the existence of a electoral system which includes trade, business and occupational representation, wherein Western conglomerate international satellite media has less influence on local considerations that it presently has on the masses represented within enormous geographical constituencies of parliaments. In the US, it is the role of powerful and highly paid lobbyists to represent particular interests, and the more money the more lobbing power, influence and corruption prejudicial to the public's interest; and the Times leads no investigative crusade to protect the public interest.
Musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.
Yes, you're entirely right about the NYT. But the NYT
simply illustrates how the entire corporate media works. The same propaganda mechanisms are used from the "sophisticated" top of the market (NYT, PBS) to the crude & blatantly thuggish bottom (FOX, NY Post).
Just to offer a quick example: On New Year's Day, I went to see the new Tom Hanks / Julia Roberts movie "Charlie Wilson's War." This movie lays out a version of events in Afghanistan in 1979 -- portraying the nature of both the USSR & CIA involvement there.
As best one can tell from the film, the USSR sent tanks & troops to Afghanistan out of pure wickedness & sadism. The film shows Soviet pilots laughing as they strafe defenseless Afghanis "just for the fun of it." If you didn't know before entering the theater that actually, there was a somewhat progressive government in Kabul that had requested Soviet assistance to defend it against an uprising by Islamic fundamentalists, you wouldn't learn it from the film. The film offers only one way to view the Soviets: pure mindless "evil."
By contrast, what does the film show about the motivations of the CIA? Why, naturally, the CIA intervenes only because they are so noble, driven by "compassion" for Aghanis, & are so horrified by the "evil" of the Soviets. There is a scene of a refugee camp showing Afghani children who have lost arms and legs and parents to Soviet cluster bombs. US congressmen and CIA guys are viewing all this, and are deeply moved by it, and resolve to find hundreds of millions of dollars of secret funding, to fund the Afghan mujahideen "freedom fighters" (who later became the Taliban & Al Qaeda), in order to defeat the evil Soviets.
Incredibly, there is no suggestion whatever that the US ever uses cluster bombs! These same latent exploding devices that children pick up because they seem toy-like -- the film gives the impression that they are "horrible" and that they maim & kill innocent children -- but in the world of this film, only the Soviets use them!! Never the US!!
By the time you walk out of the theater, you are well entertained (after all, Tom Hanks is supremely likeable, Julia Roberts is pretty, & the film's dialog is crisp & witty). But underlying it all is the conception of "USSR = evil" and "CIA = nobly-motivated good guys," a bit roguish, perhaps, but definitely on the side of the angels. There's just no other way to see it.
And that's what drives the NYT, & all the rest of the corporate media, too.
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Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1231 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 12:08:32 PM
Imaginary history by false Hollywood and NYTimes lies.
Truman assented to setting up a central intelligence office, on the strict condition it be kept in-house -- NO field agents -- only a desk job where true intelligence for the president from 17 existing agencies in the field, (Naval Intell., State Dept. Intell., 15 more), brought their reports to be collated, summarized, stapled and delivered in the Oval Office. Out of work ex-OSS playboy power-crazed Dulles, dreamed of running agents, and of being a legend-in-his-own-mind SuperFascist one. Dulles fished his friend Ian Fleming's fiction from the drunk tank, sexed it up, extorted Howard Hughes's Hollywood harlotry toward setting up the silverscreen illusion of a dazzling Dulles-mythic agent, (Bond, James Bond), with 'license to kill.' CIA has no such license. No one is above the law. Brainwashed movie-goer's fell for the CIA-spiked lies claiming moral superiority ... as long as it showed naked Playboy sexuality, so virtuous. All circa 1953 -- put your mind back then.
(Notice Dulles sucked-up to Senator Prescott 'nazi banker' Bush, and got his out-of-work bomber wingnut flyboy George a job at CIA sometime before 1953, maybe at inception in the rookie class of 1948. G. 'Herbert' Bush is CIA ever since.)
Tom Hanks-in-his-own-mind Herbert instigated Afghanistan annihilation, (years before the Soviets got there), as Herbie was accomplice 'good-cop/bad-cop' with Henry the K.(iller), teamed in fomenting Pakistan atrocities. Bush arranged all the Bhutto murders, starting in '71 and pinning the blame on his mental-ill puppet son, dumb-o Dumbo Dubya. Dot cretin. Poppy & Babs's 'special needs' boy.
Kissinger was the high priest of imperialism and neocolonialism, animated by an instinctive hatred for Indira Gandhi, Aldo Moro, Ali Bhutto, and other nationalist world leaders. Kissinger's British geopolitics simply accentuated Bush's own fanatically Anglophile point of view which he had acquired from father Prescott and imbibed from the atmosphere of the family firm, Brown Brothers Harriman, originally the US branch of a British counting house.
Kissinger was also dedicated to economic, diplomatic, and military support of Israeli aggression and expansionism to keep the Middle East in turmoil so as to prevent Arab unity and Arab economic development while using the region to mount challenges to the Soviets. Kissinger's soul-mates were figures like Gen. Ariel Sharon, the harbinger of endless wars in the Middle East. In this he was a follower of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Balfour. In the 1973 Middle East war which he had connived to unleash, Kissinger would mastermind the US resupply of Israel and would declare a US-world wide thermonuclear alert. In later years Kissinger would enrich himself through speculative real estate purchases on the West bank of the Jordan, buying up land and buildings that had been virtually confiscated from defenseless Palestinian Arabs.
In 1970, Yahya Khan, the British-connected, Sandhurst-educated dictator of Pakistan, was forced to announce that elections would be held in the entire country. It will be recalled that Pakistan was at that time two separate regions, east and west, with India in between. ... Yahya Khan delayed the seating of the new national assembly and on the evening of March 25 ordered the Pakistani army to arrest Mujibur and to wipe out his organization in East Pakistan. The army proceeded to launch a campaign of political genocide in East Pakistan. Estimates of the number of victims range from 500,000 to three million dead. All members of the Awami League, all Hindus, all students and intellectuals were in danger of execution by roving army patrols. A senior US Foreign Service officer sent home a depatch in which he told of West Pakistani soldiers setting fire to a women's dormitory at the University of Dacca and then machine-gunning the women when they were forced by the flames to run out. This campaign of killing went on until December, and it generated an estimated 10 million refugees, most of whom fled across the nearby borders to India, which had territory all around East Pakistan. The arrival of ten million refugees caused indescribable chaos in India, whose government was unable to prevent untold numbers from starving to death.
From the very beginning of this monumental genocide, Kissinger and Nixon made it clear that they would not condemn Yahya Khan, whom Nixon considered a personal friend. Kissinger referred merely to the "strong -arm tactics of the Pakistani military," and Nixon circulated a memo in his own handwriting saying "To all hands. Don't squeeze Yahya at this time. RN" Nixon stressed repeatedly that he wanted to "tilt" in favor of Pakistan in the crisis.
"And I knew that George Bush, our able UN ambassador, would carry out the President's policy," wrote Kissinger in his memoirs ...
Soon later, in a '74 - '76 timeline, ('76 was Herbert's one-year term as CIA King), Pakistan mysteriously happened to get The Bomb, an incitement of nuclear destabilization on the south flank of Soviet sovereignty.
Soon later, Afghanistan came next ...
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meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 26 diaries, 507 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 1:53:30 PM
All Charl Wilson War Viewers write to Hanks/Roberts for Lies
Thank you Richard, Why don't you write to Tom Hanks and Julie Roberts and tell they should have reseached the topic before allowing their popularity and the affection of their fans to be used by the film makers to deceive the public about their CIA funding the Afghan hill tribe terror against the socialist Kabul government six months before the Soviet intervention? In case you scaned my article and missed it, I quote below one paragraphs:
The Times has hid the blowback nature of 9/11. ‘The chicken’s coming home to roost’ from the Carter administration's June-1979 secret funding, arming and training the fundamentalist Mujahadeen uprising against a modern socialist, women liberating Kabul government, when there were no Soviet troops in Afghanistan, precisely in order to frighten and sucker the Soviets into intervening six months later in December. Funding assassinations of teachers for teaching girls, made the US the first to use Islamic terrorism as a cold war tool. Type ‘Brzezinski brags’ into Google, and 29 pages of articles pop up to click on, including the text of the Advisor to the President’s 1998 interview with a French newspaper. As opposed to the Times, the Internet has ‘all the news that ISN’T fit to print’, including the CIA funding with Saudi agents thousands of extremist Wahabi sect Islamic schools in Afghanistan, helping Osama bin Ladin and backing the fervently puritanical Taliban, favored by the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. The NY Times prints articles praising how the US improved the life of Afghan women, but not the truth about the condition of women's lives in Kabul before twenty thousand extreme Wahabi Madrasahs were funded by the CIA and the Saudi secret service in the Persian speaking nation of Afghanistan.
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Jay Janson (83 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 93 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 3:39:46 PM
I did indeed see that passage, & you nailed it. (In fact,
that's what made me think of the movie.)
You wrote "The NY Times prints articles praising how the US improved the life of Afghan women, but not the truth about the condition of women's lives in Kabul before..." 20,000 Madrasahs were funded by the CIA.
The hypocrisy of the NYT there is mindboggling, but typical, & instructive. They crow that the US liberated the women, because the women can now go to school & walk around without burkas. But they leave out the "little" detail that the women were only forced to wear burkas & kept home from school, because of the fundamentalists the US helped bring to power. So in effect, the US "liberated" the women only after helping to repress them. We helped bring down a govt that had liberated them. // The Soviets were fighting Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan. Today the US is fighting many of the same people, or their children.
The irony & contradictions are overwhelming. It makes me think of the Spanish Civil War. There, Americans who volunteered to fight for democracy & against fascism in the International Brigades were not honored or welcomed by their government when they came home. On the contrary, they were called "premature anti-fascists" & got put on an FBI watch list. You might suppose (if you listened to the media) that the US is "against fascism." But it really isn't. It's only against fascism such a policy advances strategic goals. If these goals can be better served by supporting fascism (or turning a blind eye to it), then the US does that. Somehow it was "good" to fight Hitler and Tojo, but "bad" to fight Franco!?!?
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Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1231 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 7:48:03 PM
Well-written article. I like the allusion to 'literate-speaking hooker floozy,' turning tricks, loveless, and unloved. Jack the Ripper, mass murderer, is more like it, when we remember the souls who have been killed -- in extreme prejudice and with malice aforethought, by all the stabs inflicted in Times' unfit print.
BOYCOTT the paper. BOYCOTT every advertiser. Call advertisers and complain.
The power of the press is crushed beneath the Power of the Purse. Ours. Closed.
There is no rehab restoration for old-aged, old-world propagandist powersickness. It must perish. There is only new-born, new-life for us in reality to make.
The end of Times turns into time for humankind.
If, anymore, you don't have a subscription to cancel, then heckle your acquaintances who do, to join the old-Times BOYCOTT, and condemn each advertiser that inks their name. Last century can die and the new century can go on. Here -- the internets -- well-written or in video verite, help institute the new.
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meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 26 diaries, 507 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 12:08:35 PM
Actually that's not what he said. In the very first sentence
of the article, the author says, "The US newspaper of record...is as much a corporate whore as are the sordid sex, crime, and scandals-featuring news tabloids."
When he later says "It (the NYT) stands far and above the tabloids boorish... use of giant bold print," he's only talking about the newspaper's style. In other words, the NYT is like a high-class whore, doing the same thing street hookers like the NY Post & FOX TV do, but more stylishly.
Haven't you seen people "dying because of tabloid lies"? Do you remember the famous NY Post front page showing the French & German UN ambassadors as weasels, during the run-up to the Iraq invasion? That kind of stupid nationalist propaganda has certainly helped to get lots of people killed.
Everything that FOX TV does is "tabloid." And the fact that the NYT has now hired Bill Kristol, a FOX regular, as a columnist -- this by itself proves the article's main point -- that apart from style, there's not much difference between the the NYT and a street hooker. It's just like hiring Limbaugh or Hannity, except that Kristol is more polished & can pass himself off as an "intellectual."
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Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1231 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 7:13:32 PM
I saw a race riot clearly started by the police to break up a civil rights demonstration back in 1966. The New York Times reported exactly the opposite the next day. Then I went to a debate on the Vietnam war a couple of years later. Both debaters were war lovers. The New York Times reported exactly the opposite. It has taken me years to lean that investigtion is the best form of cover up. Just know that you are being lied to, but just go ahead.
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John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1408 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 6:34:26 PM
NYT also blackouts climate stuff, North Pole rain etc.
March 27-28/04, only hurricane in South Atlantic on record blew into Southeast Brazil, killing 3 on land after putting 12 at sea into water. Reuters had it, so NYT definitely received. I confirmed via e-mail w/ Assistant Ombudsman that Times did not report, no explanation and certainly no apology. (Actually, first response was machinelike "do your own research", when I pointed that I had, could find no NYT reference, was only trying to confirm, he acknowledged they'd ignored. Have cartoon with his quote at <http://furrylogick.com/page_5>.
Since then, they've ignored snow in Buenos Aires for several hours last July 10th, first in 90 years (Reuters had), earthquakes in West Greenland for first time recorded, acknowledged as due to lessening ice weight per long known standard geology, small so far (1-3 Richter scale, UK Observer early September), Greenland 22c temp last July, with long period of 17c, (5c has been past normal that area in July), reported in UK Independent early October. Also mentions rain at North Pole. UK Independent also has very pretty piece re Greenland ice from the sky, reporting many melt holes, morels, big enough to fly a helicopter into as the water swirls down to the pressed below sea level bedrock below.
They also ignored LA Times article in June '06 that reported that bedrock was possibly 3 islands, not 1, and hundreds of drill-like holes beneath a then "unblemished surface"leading down to the bedrock. LA Times didn't pursue, but did at least report.
If more wanted, see my lone diary entry, google "global warming policy is not complicated" (on Beyond Partisan), plushtown, and/or "furry logick", stuffed animals bloviating.
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plushtown (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 9:09:24 AM
It was not possible for me to watch the debates tonight. There was nothing to watch. Without Dennis Kucinich there everything was moot. I'm sure they all mouthed the same garbage that they have been mouthing for so long that they should just make a recording of it all if anybody were interested. There is not an original thought in any of their heads. As time has passed they have tried to take a page from Dennis' book and sound as if they were intersted in the American people but by now even the people have cought on to their deceit and subterfuge. I hear that Hitlery was booed tonight. MY, My!
As I listened to the appearance by Kucinich on CSpan in New Hampshire, an idea came to me. Since everybody I know is a supporter of Kucinich and nobody believes that he has a prayer of being the nominee of the Democratic Party, I suggest that we all write in his name in November when the election finally arrives.
There has to be some way of this election to be on the up and up. The MSM has done their job very well. They have tried to black out Kucinich but he keeps on trucking, thank God. There must be some justice in this world. There must be a way for us, the people, to get our way and elect Kucinich for our president. There has never been a time when we needed him more.
So, my good friends, lets make our voices heard and elect Dennis in spite of the whores, the MSM, the insurance companies, the war mongers, the huge corporations who have destroyed the middle class, the stupid people who don't bother to learn about civic duty, and of course, the criminals in the White House who will be impeached!
Stranger things have happened. Dennis' campaign has always been a grass roots issue. If we can communicate this idea to enough people, he will win. Crazy? Maybe, but sometimes crazy is good. It's only the fate of the whole world at stake so give it a thought and pass this along.
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Caronome (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 241 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 10:50:21 PM
IT is hard to tell what will happen between now and the election.
The soviet union was ended over CHERNOBYL, not because their imperial ambitions outstripped their resources - although this may have had some affect on overseeing their monolithic nuclear plant ..
something similiar may happen and people may be more open to change. The women in the soviet republics simply went in and took over the radio stations and TV stations because they had simply had ENOUGH.
HiLIARy has certainly had the democratic machine (and Diebold) deliver on her "behalf" . but her getting her finger on the nuclear trigger as Commander in Chief of the world's hugest superpower is not a foregone conclusion!
People may not be quite as stoopid as it would appear. I have HOPE.
I can onlyl see a return to the rule of law as an antidote to the BuZh war crimes .. and I can only see Dennis as the one who can administer a program enough to undo the Global War on Terror nightmare to which we are all AFFLICTED.
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ladybroadoak (38 articles, 20 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 391 comments)
on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 11:52:38 PM
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