[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The Marxist Left has always had a toehold or more in the NY Times and Wash. Post. You just had to know who to look at (read) and who they associated with.

Did you know that NYT Times leftist Vietnam reporter Elizabeth Becker was the only major newspaper journalist to participate in a “Hanoi Lobby” created/run anti-Vietnam protest? (In NY, about 1972. Will try to find the exact article). Other NYT writers and guest Op-Ed writers were KGB or Communist Party members/sympathizers, including Wilfred Burchett (KGB, Australian CP, Red Chinese operative during the Korean War), Anthony Lewis (communist disinformation specialist on Vietnam), and Obit page manager/writer, former 12 year CP member who the Party continued to count on to “write well about the left dead” (possible paraphrase from one of their theoretical journals (possible Political Affairs).

[grumpygresh]

It goes back even further. NYT did positive stories on Stalin in the 1930s while he was starving out Ukraine. They also spiked stories of Jews, political dissidents interned in concentration camps during the late 30s in Nazi Germany.

[FreedomPoster]

Don’t forget Walter Duranty, NY Times reporter who helped the Soviet Union hide the Holodomor.

[Fedora]

Elizabeth Becker Cambodia and Khmer Rouge Collection, 1970-1988 PDF. Communist influence at the NYT goes back to Adolph Ochs and a young Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who later turned anti-Communist. The American Newspaper Guild and SISS tried to purge Communists from the NYT in the 1940s and 1950s. At the Washington Post, Communist influence goes back to Philip Graham, who worked for Felix Frankfurter's Soviet spy ring in WWII before becoming the CIA's mouthpiece in the newspaper industry during the Cold War. J. Edgar Hoover once said that he was happy whenever the NYT or WP criticized the FBI, and if they ever praised him, he would order an investigation to find out what had gone wrong.