Every day it seems like there’s more and more evidence that the most influential paper on the planet, The New York Times, simply carried water for the Bush propaganda effort in Iraq
Much of the Sherman article looks at dissension within the Times, principally on the part of Washington reporter James Risen, at around the time Judith Miller was writing her badly mistaken pre-war articles about WMD starting in September 2002.
Several current and former Times staffers recalled Mr. Risen’s complaints about his time at the Washington bureau, Sherman writes. His intelligence sources were telling him that Ms. Miller’s sources were wrong about the presence of W.M.D. in Iraq. One person who was in the bureau at the time recalled that Mr. Risen said that his intelligence sources were saying the administration’s W.M.D. intelligence was ‘political.’
Two of the sources recalled Mr. Risen saying his efforts to get the bureau to question the paper’s W.M.D. reports were rebuffed. The same two recall Mr. Risen complaining that he was having trouble getting his more skeptical line of reporting onto the page.
If that’s the reaction of the “liberal” newspaper…
Attorney General of the UK has blocked any further publication of a leaked memo of a conversation between GWB and Tony Blair, in which TB talked GWB out of bombing the Al-Jazeera TV station.
Hey, if the NYT is supposed to be on our side, I propose doing away with it lock, stock and barrel. Every bit of it. Ain’t I a great guy. Here’s this big conservative propaganda weapon and I say ditch it ALL – right now. No more conservative propaganda from Herr Enron Krugman, Friedman, Krystoff, Frau Dowd (kind of like that), etc. Yes I’m willing to erase it all in a NY second. We’ll split the carcass up into two parts: one for true liberals and one for true conservatives.
Dugger, My Birdcage, if I had a birdcage, would be too good for the NYT
Add Bob Woodweird to the ‘Cult of Curveball’ and you have completed the purge of ‘liberal media bias’ mythology. Did anyone notice the courageous appearance on the “Larry King Live’ and the inevitable hardball questions he knew he would face. It is all too pathetic when journalists ‘get into bed’ (excuse me; I mean embedded) with the status quo within the Beltway.