The Times's publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr ... was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
Posted on 06/30/2006 10:53:12 AM PDT by mathprof
Keller'd be wearing them.
>Read the editorial. If you don't understand it, get someone to explain it to you.<
You don't understand my post. By saying the WSJ Pot is calling the NYT Kettle black, I am indicating that the Globalists have their feet firmly perched in both publications. Comprende?
"A. Lincoln: A house divided cannot stand."
It seems that history is repeating itself here, with the obvious differences of time and place. Lincoln waged a furious war on a press which he believed to be undermining the war effort. The list of Newspapers either shut down or swayed to change is numerous. I'm surprised Bush and the House Republicans waited this long to do the same. The question is: How many papers will they go after? It's obvious that the Times is not the only paper that defies the govt.
"...some officials who have been involved in these programs have spoken to the Times about their discomfort over the legality of the government's actions and over the adequacy of oversight."
Oh, bet these officials wouldn't be of the left wing persuasion and sporting an agenda would they?
"...some officials who have been involved in these programs have spoken to the Times about their discomfort over the legality of the government's actions and over the adequacy of oversight."
Oh, bet these officials wouldn't be of the left wing persuasion and sporting an agenda would they?
Conclusion: Rock was well-aimed and caused some pain.
These clowns should be tried for treason....
The WSJ and LA Times were going to hold the story....then the NY Times put it on the web.
>How are they explaining their decision ro run the report while slamming the Times?<
Perhaps they resorted to the old "a good offense is more effective than a weak defense" adage?
Read the article. Once the government knew for a fact that the Slimes would publish, they declassified and released certain information to the other reporters to deny the Times an exclusive, and because they thought (correctly) that the Times would cast the piece unfairly (falsely implying privacy concerns), and because the Times apparently had a bunch of stuff wrong.
IOW the Journal was publishing NON-LEAKED information they'd received from government officials on June 22, the day before the story broke, and which they'd never been asked not to publish.
Not even a little.
The NY Times was asked repeatedly by the government to spike their illegally-sourced story because it would harm intelligence gathering methods.
The Wall Street Journal was provided their information by named people in the Treasury department when it became clear that the Times would run their unauthorized story.
The kettle was working against the people charged with rooting out al Qaeda, while the pot was working with those people.
If you can't see the difference, maybe its your glasses that are black.
Fight dirty: quote them accurately.
"Damn, I better stay away from those Marines."
When MacArthur and Hecht wrote the Front Page, they portrayed the press as a bunch of lovable drunken bums which did not have much regard for the truth. Kind of an artistic twist on the literary myth of a hooker with a heart of gold. With the advent of celebrity they were able to step up in popular culture hiearchy. This latest instance may help to put them in the proper place which are sober PC mean-spirited ideologues with a hate America agenda. It all makes one long for the drunken bum journalists of 20's whose only ideology was the one imposed on them from the top by W R Hearst.
See my post #63.
The editorial is a brilliant evisceration of the NYT. The editiorial points out that the WSJ published only the talking points that Treasury felt comfortable revealing. The NYT evidently got 30% of the story wrong.
bttt
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