Instead of any serious journalism examining Deflategate's logical flaws and Exponent's dubious role in the scandal-mongering, the Times presented Exponent as the real martyrs in the case, reporting "Exponent still receives emails from adamant critics, and its role in Deflategate has cost it several prospective clients, the company said."
A Troubling Pattern
Granted, the Deflategate silliness is minor compared to other cases when the Times misrepresented key chapters of U.S. history, concealed government wrongdoing and generated propaganda used to justify wars. But all these examples point to a pattern of journalistic behavior that is not journalistic.
Today's Times is not the brave newspaper that published the Pentagon Papers, the secret history of the Vietnam War. It is no longer the place where a Seymour Hersh could expose the CIA's "crown jewels" of scandals or where a Raymond Bonner could reveal massacres of civilians by U.S.-backed militaries in Central America.
Not that those earlier days were by any means perfect -- and not that there isn't some quality journalism that still appears in the newspaper -- but it is hard to imagine the Times today going against the grain in any significant or consistent way.
Instead, the Times has become an apologist for the powerful, conveying to its readers and to the world a dangerous and dubious insistence that the Establishment knows best.
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