The real problem is that there appears to be no counterbalance to the patently obvious bias’ of the NYT. So long as many make the NYT the supposed “leader of news,” there will be a place for fool’s and apologists to hide & flourish.
Many warned that leaving SE Asia would mean holocaust, but few listened or truly understood, because they had been deluged with horror stories about war there & had been told how terrible America was, as opposed to how horrible the alternatives were.
The past stories reflect present day actions to try to portray Americans soldiers, en masse, as the evil in Iraq, not the Islamist terrorists who are doing the murdering.
Haditha is the best example in the present conflict. Now, with only one more soldier to be tried, few are reporting the reality that after complete impartial investigation & trials, none of the soldiers committed crimes there. Only one soldier is yet to be tried & that soldier will not be tries for supposed atrocities, but for supposedly withholding reports, or failing to file reports, or making errors in reports. But, no mass & indiscriminate killing of civilians is allege against this soldier as all those soldiers have already been, exonerated. BUT, the NYT & others have failed abysmally to adequately report those facts. The exaggerated reporting manner of the charges which were levied, is not matched by the pathetically sparse level of reporting on the exonerations.
Murtha got front page above the fold headlines when he leveled his charges from the floor of the House of Representatives against the soldiers. Yet today, we hear no calls for Murtha to at least apologies for the majority of his exaggerated false accusations.
Perhaps these reasons account for the demise of the NYT! Perhaps even the NYT’s most loyal readers are beginning to realize that slanted coverage does little to report the news and much to allow & excuse the atrocities of tyrants and despots! While Bush has failed us on many issues, asserting his failures are greater than or comparable to the likes of Saddam, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, the Muslim Brotherhood, bin Laden, et al, is not only disingenuous, its outright despicable.
Truth requires one to take sides eventually, while still reporting on the positions of those doing the lying!
Any publication that justifies not reporting on issues or couching their reports so they can remain in contact, is responsible for lies, deaths, and the miseries the oppressed suffer because those reports have provided cover and credibility to despots & murderers.
