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Ex-Time reporter: The day I knew journalism had died in America
New York Post ^ | August 6, 2022 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 08/06/2022 10:10:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway

I have covered war, espionage and intrigue for major news organizations in the United States and around the world, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Time magazine, Reader’s Digest, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC News, Le Monde, L’Express, Le Point, and many others. That was when these organizations still tried to be “mainstream” and did not pull punches, self-censor and lie to protect their political allies.

Only when I was fired by Time in 1994 for investigating a story that threatened President Bill Clinton and many senior officials in his administration did I begin to understand that the mainstream media was dead.

The first war I went to cover was the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. As a Left-Bank expat living in Paris, I naturally sympathized with the Palestinians and planned to embed with a pro-Palestinian NGO in beseiged West Beirut. I wanted to write about the plight of innocent civilians whose lives had been shattered by war.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kennethtimmerman; media; mediabias; timmerman
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1 posted on 08/06/2022 10:10:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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He must mean when wally cronkite lied about Viet Nam. 😠


2 posted on 08/06/2022 10:12:20 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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The irony is rich here. Rich I say.

Here we have a leftist journalist who was fired because he wasn’t leftist enough. Yet he keeps on being a good journalist stooge for the left.


3 posted on 08/06/2022 10:17:09 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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Those scumbag Clintons.


4 posted on 08/06/2022 10:18:31 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: nickcarraway

Journalism is dead. All we are getting now is lies and fake stories written by Snowflakes and their Girls Gone Wild Evil Princesses down at the DNC.


5 posted on 08/06/2022 10:19:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Look him up. By the end of the 90s, he was very much considered a coderivative journalist.


6 posted on 08/06/2022 10:20:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

As I investigated, encouraged by Time editors, I uncovered and documented a massive effort by China to buy sensitive military production gear from US weapons plants, seemingly with the benediction — or at least, a blind eye — from Clinton administration officials.


7 posted on 08/06/2022 10:20:40 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: nickcarraway
Time’s editors showed in July 1994 that they believed their job was not to uncover the truth but to provide political cover to Democrats in Washington. It’s only gotten worse...our media refuses to acknowledge its ideological affiliation. So added to bias, you have hypocrisy.

Yet, they can't figure out why so many people have abandoned them.

8 posted on 08/06/2022 10:20:52 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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But unlike other countries, in all but a few cases our media refuses to acknowledge its ideological affiliation. So added to bias, you have hypocrisy.

Just like the DOJ is America's KGB, these people are America's state-run media.

9 posted on 08/06/2022 10:20:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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Journalist nowadays is no more about getting the truth than Facebook is about getting “disinformation” oh t of course heir system. Anyone ever click on their stori about “unbelievable giant animals or Hollywood pictures of older stars in bikinis and bigger than actual features?

Everything a scam.


10 posted on 08/06/2022 10:25:40 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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He only discovered it in 1994. It was ongoing since the middle 1960’s, at least.


11 posted on 08/06/2022 10:26:29 AM PDT by marktwain
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“He must mean when wally cronkite lied about Viet Nam.”

He must mean when the NYT’s lied about Stalin.


12 posted on 08/06/2022 10:31:41 AM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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🤔🤣


13 posted on 08/06/2022 10:33:50 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I believe this incident formally marks the end of the “mainstream media” as we once knew it.

This story was followed two years later by the LAAP-dog media covering up Bill Clinton's "quid pro quo" scandal.

-PJ

14 posted on 08/06/2022 10:33:51 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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We live in a mediaocracy—the masses believe what they are told. Yell a thing, put it on TV new 24-7 and it must be true. Many in the USA still believe Trump is Putin’s puppet. Many believe Trump is a gangster who made himself rich and would be a new Hitler—if given the chance. They believe only the Democrat-Progressives can save the USA and the world. Reality is going to be a cold turd sandwich soon. The Truth: The Green New Deal is only to make China and a few rich people richer, Ukraine will never win against Russia, Covid was a massive plot, The Coming WW III only to reduce the population to a Billion People. (most will die of Starvation like WW II).


15 posted on 08/06/2022 10:46:18 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: rktman
You mean this Walter?
16 posted on 08/06/2022 10:48:23 AM PDT by boycott
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To: nickcarraway

I was an avid reader of newspapers during the Nixon administration. Journalism died long before 1994.


17 posted on 08/06/2022 10:51:41 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: TexasGator
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph
18 posted on 08/06/2022 10:52:10 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: boycott

Wishing for a strategically placed tactical cruise missile...


19 posted on 08/06/2022 10:54:04 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Twotone

Operation Mockingbird destroyed journalism—and that was the 1950s.


20 posted on 08/06/2022 10:54:37 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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