New York Times Buries Bill Moyers

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7103

New York Times Buries Bill Moyers
by Barry Yourgrau | Apr 27 2007


Two days ago, PBS broadcast "Buying the War," Bill Moyers' devastating hour and a half long indictment of the US news media's complicity in helping sell Bush's invasion of Iraq.

You'd think, given the gravity of the issue and the status of Moyers, that the newspaper of record would review the program.

You'd be wrong. Welcome to the post-David Halberstam NY Times. Where they wrote up the rapper-Imus nexus and some "controversial" book about mothers who stay at home. And a PBS show about Roosevelt.

But nada about this country being conned into a war: a conjob in broad daylight, that is, with cameras running.

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[AX10]

1. The New York Times is aiming for the New York Post's audience.

[burythehatchet]

8. just as CNN aims for Fucks' Noose audience of dim bulbs

[ShortnFiery]

2. OMG, not the infamous and most detested (by the right wing), New York Times?!?

:eyes:

Their war pig editors gave us Judy Miller's LIES. :puke:

[burythehatchet]

9. the framing is remarkable isn't it?

[MannyGoldstein]

They Already Apologized For Being Tools of the Admin

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0526-15.htm

They know that they were very bad.

But realize too that it was The Times that broke:
1. Joe Wilson's op-ed about the Niger yellowcake lie, which led to the Plame affair
2. The Bush Admin's destruction of the Fourth Amendment via warrantless wiretapping - even after Bush personally asked them to quash it in an oval-office meeting.

The Times isn't perfect - but, on whole, they are excellent.

[ShortnFiery]

4. But they haven't changed one iota, have they?

[MannyGoldstein]

6. They've Changed Enormously

Since Howell Raines and Judith Miller were let go, they've been great.

[me b zola]

12. You're missing the point...

If their apology is sincere, then they wouldn't have a problem with Moyers' program.

[quiet.american]

3. Guess they didn't like the light he shone on Judith Miller's role in the propaganda.

If there were a professional punishment for journalists similar to that of being disbarred, she certainly deserves it.

[enid602]

5. TIMES

The fact that the TIMES did not immediately contradict or swiftboat the program suggests they could not come up with any criticism.

[Cha]

7. Not like 37 years ago when

they printed The Pentagon Papers..what's happened?

[Morgana LaFey]

10. If they didn't report it, did it happen?

If they DID report something, does that mean it DID happen? (Judith Miller firmly in mind here.)

[Downtown Hound]

11. No surprise here

The media is thy enemy. They will never allow the truth to come out in America, it's too dangerous to them.

[brentspeak]

13. What's wrong with the NY Times today: Arthur Sulzberger Ochs, Jr.

He's the publisher of the Times only because of his name. Other than that, he's a total stooge.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. and THAT is why I cancelled my subscription a couple of years ago - & I made sure to tell them why.

[AnnieBW]

15. Did Judy Write the Review?

Did Judy Miller write the review?

[EFerrari]

16. The NYTs is burying itself.

I just did a search for all the A28 actions and guess what? The Nation, Raw Story, the Indys. In other words, the future of journalism.

[babylonsister]

17. and then there's this. Could it be getting better? I HOPE it has to.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x278024

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x780421