NYT Pulls A Gannon on Downing Street

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http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1114

NYT Pulls A Gannon on Downing Street
At yesterday’s press briefing, Scott McClellan made the assertion that if you opposed the Iraq War, well, you don’t really count. The President doesn’t care what you have to say. Apparently neither does the New York Times. The stalwart of the “liberal media” covered the Conyers hearings with the headline “Antiwar group says leaked British memo shows Bush misled public on his war plans.” The lede to the article makes a point of stressing the type of people behind these dubious hearings:

Opponents of the war in Iraq held an unofficial hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday to draw attention to a leaked British government document that they say proves their case that President Bush misled the public about his war plans in 2002 and distorted intelligence to support his policy.

It isn’t until later in the article that the NYT bothers to mention that the hearings were being chaired by no less than the ranking minority member on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).

The paper goes on to say that “the hearing and other events…reflected antiwar sentiment re-energized” by the British memos and as well as plummeting support for the war in Iraq. Of course, they don’t bring up the fact that the current state of the war in Iraq is another possible explanation for the “re-energized” antiwar sentiment.

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[RandomKoolzip]

1. That Damn Liberal Media!

[Ysolde]

2. It's the NYT doing CYA!

They can't admit that they were so wrong and that they contributed to the public being "misled", so they've got to soft pedal and hide the criticisms.

[wtmusic]

3. Slap that "antiwar" label on one more time...

Has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with being "antiwar"--it's anti-THIS war.

:grr:

[sundancekid]

6. PERFECT POINT!

[dbeach]

4. NY Times also owns the Boston Globe

CAEM=Coprorate and Entertianment Media


all hail caaser

King George Bush the second = GB II

MM is owned by the corporats
Mussilini defined fascism as corporatism..the merging of corporate and state govt {tranlsate as control as in total control as in totalitarianism of the bsusheviks}

[rocktivity]

5. In my LTTE

I said that the headline "cast a disrespectful and condescending pall" over the article, because it gave the impression that the hearing was hosted by "a handful of knee-jerk pacifist overgrown hippies who had broken into the Capitol building and staged a sit-in!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[lala_rawraw]

7. Look, note the names of the writers and then you will know who

The shills are. Because really, no matter what one's party affiliation, you still have to report fact, not theory or adjectives. So this kind of perverse response means that the writers is a shill or a plant, but not remotely a journalist. Keep a running list, you will see a pattern of talking points.

[AndreaCG]

8. I took the front section of the NYT

out of my local cafe. It wasn't there. Where did they hide the article, in the sports pages?!