Posted on 02/28/2017 5:24:37 PM PST by Kaslin
“We strongly protest the exclusion of the New York Times and the other news organizations,” Times editor Dean Baquet said in a statement last Friday after his publication was excluded from a White House briefing. “Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.”
While innocent liberals everywhere were rallying to the Times' defense, many of those who have dealt with the Times up close could only snicker at phrases like “free media access” and “transparent government.”
One skeptic is investigative reporter James Sanders. Twenty years ago he and his wife Elizabeth were arrested by the FBI on conspiracy charges for his efforts to get at the truth behind the destruction of TWA Flight 800. This was the plane destroyed off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people on board. Not unexpectedly, the Times editors turned their back on Sanders during his legal ordeal. Their First Amendment concerns did not and do not extend far beyond their own newsroom.
“Times is struggling to prove it is the source of legitimate news,” Sanders texted me on Friday. No Trump fan, he added, “As they say in the White House, ‘Nyet.’”
If one had to pick a day when the Times lost all credibility with Sanders and other independent journalists, it would be September 21,1996. On that day, the Times’ Matthew Purdy told of how the St. Louis police used the TWA 800 plane to train a bomb-sniffing dog six weeks before the crash. The trainer placed explosives throughout the plane and encouraged the dog to find them. One law enforcement official told Purdy the explosives were kept in tightly wrapped packages but conceded, “Testing can leave traces behind.”
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The Day? Just one day? The NYT has not been believable for years.
I used to read the NYTimes...starting as a kid in the deep South (my local library subscribed) and continued when I lived in NYC as an adult.
It is now BS, but the Libs still believe it.
The Day? Just one day? The NYT has not been believable for years.
TWA 800 is a Bill Clinton stain on the US government credibility.
In my dreams I would like to see the truth put out there by the agencies involved.
They were believable one day—the day they quoted me from a Free Republic post I had against President Bush.
Duranty and Holodomar in 1934. Won a Pulitzer for the lies
The NY Times is not a source of news, but a source of entertainment, their best feature being the crossword puzzle and any Maureen Dowd column. (Someone will see what I did there.) Entertainment outlets like the Times, CNN and other programs that call themselves news don’t deserve press passes, but ridicule for failing to behave like a news organization should.
...Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest...
Except when they specialize in fake news.
Usually people who want to get invited to parties try to act politely. When you are a bad guest, don’t be surprised if that’s your last visit.
I can tell you that The Dallas Morning News, which has been lefty for longer than ever, lost respect when it endorsed hiLIARy, but lost redibility when it printed the most self-serving, poor poor me that started with “An enemy of the American people came into my office Friday night to talk about a story he was working on.”
The self-serving drivel droned on and on about the mechanics of being an enemy of America (like Nazi Germany didn’t have to fill out forms and deal with massive bureaucracy).
It was ridiculous and sounded like a 12-YO pouting out loud.
"TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy"
Decades. MANY decades.
>explosives were kept in tightly wrapped packages but conceded, “Testing can leave traces behind.”
Anyone reporting on this kind of voodoo news should know that detonated RDX has a signature different from raw RDX.
I got redpilled about the NYT as a child back in 1983. Front page article saying they had assigned reporters to follow Reagan around for a year and count how many times he went to church. He only went four times. Front page news, treated as a scandal.
“sob!*
--President Dwight Eisenhower, referring to the New York Times
>> ...Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest...
I agree with that statement. But no one ever said that the media had to be the NYT. There are LOTS of media outlets that can do this. Most, compared to the NYT, have a closer relationship with the truth.
They haven’t had any credibility for 50 years.
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