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To: Homer_J_Simpson
The New York Times was a heck of a lot more credible back then than it is today. So was the Associated Press.
5 posted on 07/08/2008 8:21:54 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

I don’t know about that. Did you catch their analysis of the situation in China that I posted yesterday? Pure fantasy. Ditto their coverage of the Spanish civil war from the same period.


6 posted on 07/08/2008 8:37:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
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To: justiceseeker93
The New York Times was a heck of a lot more credible back then than it is today.

Yes, their fawning coverage of the economic miracles in the Stalinist USSR (while meanwhile famine was sweeping the country) certainly enhanced their credibility.

As useful idiots.

7 posted on 07/08/2008 8:42:07 AM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: justiceseeker93

Just Google the name Walter Duranty.


8 posted on 07/08/2008 8:45:33 AM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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