NYT DSM COVERAGE: 6 Weeks Late The Times Still Spins for *

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Okay, the worthy editors at the NYT finally gave the Downing Street Minutes some coverage this week. Sound of one hand clapping. This comes fully six weeks after the Times of London first published the story.

The NYT and the rest of the American corporate media continue to dismiss the story as nothing new, and the memos as insignificant. Quite untrue. The significance of the DSM are that these official UK documents prove -- to a very high legal standard -- that Blair and Bush had "fixed" intelligence, and were hard at work ramping up an invasion fully half a year before Blair and Powell brought their case to the UN. War was not the "last option", as was publicly claimed. Now firmly established, it was the plan all along, and heads of government on both sides of the Atlantic knowingly lied to get their legislatures to approve resolutions authorizing troops to invade Iraq. Those who voted for these measures can now say they were duped.

Here, folks, is the hard evidence of a campaign of deceit that, ultimately, would be required to remove the American President for "high crimes and misdemeanors." That, perhaps, is too much for the worthies in the Manhattan editorial suites to contemplate. Maybe they should start -- Blair has already announced he does not plan to be living at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's residence, when this session of the British Parliament ends in 2009 or 2010.

Well, a month and a half of concerted effort by Democratic grass-roots to get the story into the mainstream papers have begun to bear fruit. The New York Times, the bell-weather of the establishment media, actually carried stories these past few days.

Before that, the NYT practically ignored the story. The paper's search engine reveals that there was no news coverage in the NYT before June 7 that included the phrase "Downing Street Memo", and not a word except for the Times ombudsman on June 5 and Paul Krugman's May 16th column. (It's not clear what was printed on May 8 in the Magazine Desk column, since we now have to pay $$$ to find out:grr:) Krugman was again a lonely pioneer.

Here's the DSM record for America's "paper of record" (first 20 in NYT search engine - excludes pre-May 1, 2005 results with the same words):



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WASHINGTON | June 17, 2005
Antiwar Group Says Leaked British Memo Shows Bush Misled Public on His War Plans
By SCOTT SHANE (NYT) News


WASHINGTON | June 17, 2005
Antiwar Group Says Leaked British Memo Shows Bush Misled Public on His War Plans
By SCOTT SHANE (NYT) News



WASHINGTON | June 16, 2005
'Exit Strategy' Is More Than a Whisper in Washington, With Lawmakers Speaking Out
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG (NYT) News



WASHINGTON | June 16, 2005
Small Bipartisan Group in House Presses for Iraq Exit Strategy
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG (NYT) News



OPINION | June 15, 2005
Truth About the War, Before the War
(NYT) Letter



WASHINGTON | June 14, 2005
A Peephole to the War Room: British Documents Shed Light on Bush Team's State of Mind
By TODD S. PURDUM (NYT) News



WASHINGTON | June 13, 2005
Prewar British Memo Says War Decision Wasn't Made
By DAVID E. SANGER (NYT) News



OPINION | June 12, 2005
Don't Follow the Money
By FRANK RICH (NYT) Op-Ed



FOREIGN DESK | June 8, 2005, Wednesday $
Bush and Blair Deny 'Fixed' Iraq Reports
By ELISABETH BUMILLER (NYT) 979 words



FOREIGN DESK | June 7, 2005, Tuesday $
Blair, Due to Meet Bush, Will Push 2 Issues
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON (NYT) 1118 words



EDITORIAL DESK | June 5, 2005, Sunday
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; The New Public Editor: Toward Greater Transparency
By Byron Calame (NYT) Op-Ed 1454 words



EDITORIAL DESK | May 16, 2005, Monday $
Staying What Course?
By PAUL KRUGMAN (NYT) Op-Ed 740 words





FOREIGN DESK | June 10, 2005, Friday $
British Press Scolds Mrs. Blair Over a Speech in the U.S
By ALAN COWELL (NYT) 964 words



DINING IN, DINING OUT/STYLE DESK | June 8, 2005, Wednesday
RESTAURANTS; Chinese Gets Dressed Up for a Change
By Frank Bruni (NYT) Review 1207 words



MAGAZINE DESK | May 8, 2005, Sunday $
The Fathers' Crusade
By Susan Dominus (NYT) 7907 words


For all of you at DU who've worked so hard to get the DSM into the MSM, thank you, it's finally beginning to happen.:applause: For the editors of the Times, who apparently didn't learn anything from the paper's Iraq WMD mistakes -- you even have Judith Miller back writing stories. Putz. :grr: :thumbsdown: :bounce: