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YET ANOTHER REASON NOT TO TRUST THE NEW YORK TIMES (by Michelle Malkin)
michellemalkin.com ^ | 9/4/04 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 09/04/2004 5:42:49 PM PDT by dinok

Take a look at how this front-page New York Times article describes the perpetrators of the siege in Beslan. Notice anything? The killers are called "guerrillas" and "fighters" and "armed captors" but not "terrorists." At one point the article grudgingly refers to these savage murderers as "people that Mr. Putin calls terrorists." In more than 1,750 words, the article includes not one reference to the religion of the Muslim perpetrators. Not one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/international/europe/04russia.html?pagewanted=print&position=

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bias; liberalmedia; malkin; mediabias; nyt; ossetia; press
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To: dinok

41 posted on 09/04/2004 6:17:47 PM PDT by LuigiBasco (It's past time to restart The Crusades.)
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To: dinok

It's almost as if the MSM is more afraid of the islamics than us....an incorrect and very very dangerous assumption on their part.

Unconstitutional LIES and TREASON will one day no longer be tolerated.


42 posted on 09/04/2004 6:17:47 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: Petronski

That closeup shot of an injured child's hand clenching the gold cross is Pulitzer material. Says it all.


43 posted on 09/04/2004 6:29:12 PM PDT by hershey
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To: hershey

Who reads TABLOIDS anyway.


44 posted on 09/04/2004 6:33:31 PM PDT by jocko12
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To: dinok

I'm almost surprised the NYT didn't refer to these muslim terrorists as "Freedom Fighters".

They'll never change and for that reason I'm glad that the liberal bias was pointed out by President George H W Bush and others during the convention.


45 posted on 09/04/2004 6:35:08 PM PDT by Nasher
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To: demkicker
Why is it still considered an influential paper, for cryin out loud?

It isn't - except among politicians and the liberal pseudo-elite.

You don't really think that folks in middle America give a tinker's damn about what an east-coast ultra-liberal "tabloid" writes do you?

The NY Times lost all its "paper-of-record" status when it lost its unbiased objectivity. No serious person now takes a Times article at face value.

Respect in the media is hard to come by, difficult to keep, and easy to lose.

46 posted on 09/04/2004 6:40:15 PM PDT by Noachian (Legislation without representation is tyranny)
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To: dinok

BUMP


47 posted on 09/04/2004 6:42:28 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Nasher
They'll never change and for that reason I'm glad that the liberal bias was pointed out by President George H W Bush and others during the convention

They can't change, it was this PC Multicultural moral relativism wing of the democratic party that took the party in a direction good guys like Zell Miller could not stand. The concept that everybody needs to be more sensitive to one another is just another way the left is seeking unilateral disarmmament. Nothing less.

48 posted on 09/04/2004 6:42:50 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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To: dinok; Howlin; Liz
The killers are called "guerrillas" and "fighters" and "armed captors" but not "terrorists."

And this is the same rag that's trying to get Effin' Kerry elected?

49 posted on 09/04/2004 6:44:39 PM PDT by Libloather (What did Bergler stow - and when did he stow it?)
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To: Noachian
It isn't - except among politicians and the liberal pseudo-elite. You don't really think that folks in middle America give a tinker's damn about what an east-coast ultra-liberal "tabloid" writes do you? The NY Times lost all its "paper-of-record" status when it lost its unbiased objectivity. No serious person now takes a Times article at face value. Respect in the media is hard to come by, difficult to keep, and easy to lose.

You make me hopeful but are you saying that only liberals and politicos take the NY Times? What are their circulation numbers? Is the NY Post gaining on them like Fox has exploded?
50 posted on 09/04/2004 6:47:02 PM PDT by demkicker
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To: Ramonan

and the only reason i still subscribe to the houston cronicle (a real lib rag) is that I enjoy the crossword puzzle....how sad is that?


51 posted on 09/04/2004 6:55:23 PM PDT by BamaDi
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To: dinok
Okay, we have Michelle Malkin, Peggy Noonan, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, who am I forgetting.

They have the ugly and nasty Maureen Dowd and even worse Helen Thomas. NO CONTEST WE WIN!!!

52 posted on 09/04/2004 7:05:13 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: demkicker
You make me hopeful but are you saying that only liberals and politicos take the NY Times?

As far as "peddling influence" goes the liberals use the Times as their "truth" - their "blog" if you will. What you have, in effect, is a group of like-minded people reading like-minded journalism.

What are their circulation numbers?

The last report I saw was 1.5 million with most of that on the east coast, and a small portion spread across the country. For the print media 1.5 million isn't a lot of papers, and they exist, as all papers do, because of their advertisers who cater to the Times liberal market.

Is the NY Post gaining on them like Fox has exploded?

I haven't figures on the NY Post, but they have been a thorn in the side of the Times for many years, and is an ideological alternate to the Times in the NY area. The Post has taken advantage of the Times most recent credibility problems, and in this respect I'd have to "assume" that its readship has grown just as Fox grew because of CNN's credibility problems.

53 posted on 09/04/2004 7:06:58 PM PDT by Noachian (Legislation without representation is tyranny)
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To: dinok

Washington Post referred to them, in the lead paragraph no less, as "Muslim guerillas." At least they mentioned the religion.


54 posted on 09/04/2004 7:13:32 PM PDT by dwaynestomp
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To: nkycincinnatikid
Here's a good one I hadn't seen before.


55 posted on 09/04/2004 7:19:21 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: Noachian
I haven't figures on the NY Post, but they have been a thorn in the side of the Times for many years, and is an ideological alternate to the Times in the NY area. The Post has taken advantage of the Times most recent credibility problems, and in this respect I'd have to "assume" that its readship has grown just as Fox grew because of CNN's credibility problems.

Thanks for putting a smile on my face this Saturday night! Too bad advertisers won't leave the NY Times in droves. Maybe we FReepers need to put some effort into changing some minds, eh?
56 posted on 09/04/2004 7:21:15 PM PDT by demkicker
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To: BamaDi

Well, I have a similar problem. I do not believe anything the San Diego Soviet Union writes. My wife demands we keep the subscription for the ads.


57 posted on 09/04/2004 7:31:35 PM PDT by Ramonan (Honor does not go out of style.)
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To: dinok
NYTimes, LATimes, NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, Al-Jazeera:

The Access of Evil

58 posted on 09/04/2004 7:54:03 PM PDT by Piranha
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To: dinok

I'll give the Washington Post some credit today identifying them as Muslim (but guerrillas not terrorists), 1st paragraph of page A1 story:


"BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 4 -- Hundreds of children, their parents and teachers died in the bloody culmination of a 52-hour siege that began when heavily armed Muslim guerrillas stormed their school Wednesday and ended in an hours-long battle with Russian troops Friday."


59 posted on 09/04/2004 8:03:45 PM PDT by ironman
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To: dinok

The NYT would not want to sensationalize this event with pictures. Ignoring the nomenclature and the graphics of this event is the first step in submission to the terrorists(goons).


60 posted on 09/04/2004 8:19:45 PM PDT by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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