The New York Times is failing Canada

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The New York Times is failing Canada
"Portraying the protest as an act of collective grieving rather than a bacchanal of vandalism and constitutional hooliganism was a choice," writes columnist Max Fawcett.
4:56 PM · Feb 24, 2022

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/02/24/opinion/new-york-times-failing-canada

During the four long years of Donald Trump’s presidency, many Canadians looked to the New York Times as an important beacon of reason and decency. Now that Canada is having its own Trump-esque moment, one that’s been amplified by the Trumpist instruments of Fox News and Facebook, the Times appears to have abandoned its post. Instead of serving as a crucial bulwark against the spread of misinformation and populist fear-mongering, it’s now unintentionally aiding and abetting it.

On two separate occasions, the Times made fundamental errors of fact that skewed the way millions of people saw what was unfolding in Ottawa. First, they claimed in a tweet that the invocation of the Emergencies Act was a de facto suspension of civil liberties, one that it eventually walked back after nearly every constitutional expert in Canada pointed out its mistake.

Then on Saturday, as police were clearing out the remaining protesters, it ran a headline suggesting “police arrested demonstrators at gunpoint” despite that happening only once when police suspected explosives were inside a vehicle. The Times eventually softened the headline, but the damage was already done, and the story itself remained conspicuously biased towards the perspective of the protesters.

But the recent episode on the events in Ottawa of its widely followed The Daily podcast might have been the biggest problem of all. To add insult to injury, it was a Canadian — Catherine Porter, the New York Times’ Canadian bureau chief — at the heart of it.

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1. Top down thinking requires orderliness and neatly tied thinking where there is neither.

Never admit you have no idea of what's going on. Just wing it for a good story to control the masses.