Posted on 10/13/2007 4:04:03 PM PDT by Jay777
The posthumous award of the nation's highest battlefield honor to a Long Island war hero has become an other black mark for the Gray Lady.
The New York Times carried not a whisper of news yesterday about the bestowal of the Medal of Honor to Navy Lt. Michael Murphy of Patchogue - the first time the honor has been given for action in Afghanistan.
EDITORIAL: Unfit To Print?
Area veterans, as well as Murphy's neighbors, were out raged - but not all that surprised - that the paper car ried nothing about Murphy in Friday's editions, unlike The Post, The Daily News and Newsday, which all carried prominent re ports and photos.
"If he had killed 15 people, he'd be on the front page of their newspaper," fumed James Casey of Malverne, a Vietnam vet and past commander of the state American Le gion organization.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“MEDAL OF DIS-HONOR FOR THE GRAY LADY”
MEDAL OF DIS-HONOR FOR THE OLD GRAY LIAR
Fixed it.
The New York Times is not a paper of America. They have chosen to be political instead of truth.
no surprise here. And kudos to the Post for running this.
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