Gray Lady Down: An Interview with Author William McGowan
Taken from this week’s edition of PJM Political, the unedited 22-minute version of Ed Driscoll’s interview with William McGowan, longtime journalist, and the author of the book debuting this week, Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of The New York Times Means for America. McGowan is also the author of an earlier, equally hard-hitting look at the impact of political correctness on newspapers across the country, Coloring the News.
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If the New York Times goes under, that would be the ultimate triumph of the Internet over the main stream media. I just can’t wait to see that happen.
NO, an aplology is NOT enough for the New YOrk Times or any other journal. Were the damage done to these young men by a private commercial company without protections of the 1st Amendment, there would be not only outcry but compensation to virtually bankrupt that company.
Whether or not this is legally a libel,it is a concerted /continuing “conspiracy” against the in this case totally innocent young men. Who, this Gray Lady and “prestige” journal and TV siblings with inordinate influence on the society taking the opposition, could not effectively fight.
It also seems to me the collegiality of journalists leads them to much leaning over backwards to excuse / devalue damage done to persons and the nation by untruthful/ skewed information, in the service of a political goal which is / was subversive of the USA.
An entirely unprofessional behaviour, reminiscent of knee bending head bowing acolytes little interested in pride and integrity as newsmen providing credible, generally truthful information for judgement by the readers. In this more propagandist than news journalist. Shame.
But what can we expect since the “news” reports beginning with the information provided by these same journals / TV during the “election” of 1960 and the following Vietnam War
You call it cultural change. Its effects ARE and intended to be subversive of the USA as Constitutional Republic. Drum beaten by persons who are not and have not been “elected” by the population. But took upon themselves the mantle of political control, the favourites and positions in the “culture”.
The New York Times and its ilk the primary cheerleaders of those persons whose aims are Change from Constitutional Republic to “elite” (they and their club of “betters” of course holding the reins)in control of those dumbos, those ignoramuses, those “common” men and women they so dismiss as “ordiary” Americans in their “Red States”.
The ONLY REASON that the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angelos Times and their ilk no longer CONTROL the dissemination of information are the instruments now in the hands of those derided dumbos, the internet. And with that the loss of the control of the tollgate for information and control of the electorate, and direction of the nation.
And these former “movers and shakers” in their royal status are howling like the bullies and stormtroopers they are at this loss of their powers. Evidenced in their intemperate, insulting screams of rage at those informing/ news disseminating OTHERS /OUTSIDERS no longer in their controls.
About 10 years ago, “Pinch” S. spoke in Germantown, TN (suburban Memphis). I really didn’t know much about him and the history of the NYT. I simply thought it would be interesting. I was surprised by the guy’s arrogance. He made it seem like he had climbed the corp. ladder to get where he was. He also made some comment about the South which he thought was funny, but was really condescending. I am not suprised at all that the NYT fell on its rear. This is a guy who really believes his own schitck.
R.I.P., ugly gray hag.
I will relish the fall of this newspaper, held captive by the shallow end of the founding family’s gene pool in a voting trust that allows them near immunity from their shareholders. Pinch Sulzberger is a pathetic little man, who has given the final push to a once powerful newspaper.
But…we will all be the losers for what it could have been: a real voice with real creibility taking Bush to task for his deficits, his failure to veto spending bills and slamming Dennis Hastert for his corrupt cronyism. If it had done that, it could also have served as a check on Obama and Pelosi, saving us these unbelievable deficits.
But nope: just another partisian rag.
I almost forgot that there existed the NYT. It has been eons since we have read it here in Huntington Beach.
We really don’t miss it, and if it closed down, we really wouldn’t care.
It’s too bad that the Times, not so unlike NYC itself, has become so anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, politically correct.
I think NYC will re-invent itself, but I doubt NYT will.
Better for it to die sooner, but I don’t see that happening, either. There is none to really replace it … tho PJM here and online everywhere is taking the eyeballs.
They still often do great science.
Please refer to the NYTimes as a lady, who happens to be gray.
The NYTimes who proclaimed M&M to be a “genius”, who helped Castro take over , terrorize, and destoy Cuba; who seeks to censor the first amendment rights of other Americans,and which supports reverse racism,is a national disgrace run by vermin. The people it sought to abuse and control have rejected it in favor of the new alternate media. The rag is moribund,and I have the champagne ready when it finally croaks.
That ol’ grey mare ain’t what she used to be; staring about the 1960′s the NY Times began to manifest itself as the paragon of smug certitude. All the “news” fittingly spun and printed.
The Internet is a true leveler and democratizing influence; but the new challenge remains “old”; sorting the truth from the BS….the main new thing being ease of access.
For some reason, McGowan does not discuss the outrageous refusal of the NYT to credit the Swiftboat Vets when they demolished John F. Kerry prior to the election of 2004. There were not two sides to those lies by Kerry.
Nobody ever mentions, either, the attempted “late hit” by the NY Times on Bush in 2004 when they ran a front page story (from whole cloth) which alleged that U.S. forces had negligently failed to defuse ammo dumps in Iraq.
And, of course, the 25 year old DUI late hit about Bush in 2000, held up for months by the Times (and others) until maximum impact could be achieved on the Thursday before the election, when it did reduce Bush by four million votes, and send the election to the Supreme Court for decision.