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To: Kid Shelleen

http://forward.com/opinion/141558/the-forward-saw-a-pogrom-in-crown-heights/

...Just how premeditated was the [NY] Times’ effort to portray in morally equivalent terms the attacks made on the Jews was underscored by a recent column in New York Jewish Week by one of the Times’ reporters, Ari Goldman.

On this anniversary of the violence, he penned a courageous account of what it was like to be a legman amid an anti-Jewish riot for the newspaper that boasted of issuing “All the News That’s Fit To Print.”

He called in the facts, and they got rewritten into a story of a racial clash between blacks and whites or between blacks and Jews, when, in reality, no Jews had attacked anybody. The riot was an attack on Jews...


6 posted on 08/20/2016 12:15:43 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Interesting read. After all that it looks like The Forward still endorsed Deadly David Dinkins for re-election, albeit “not too enthusiastically”.


14 posted on 08/20/2016 1:07:01 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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