Total Dysfunction at the New York Times

Real Clear Politics ^ | 7/13/2006 | Jed Babbin

[Obadiah]

The New York Times's publication of two classified anti-terrorist programs and the Times's nose-in-the-air defense of its actions have inflamed conservative anti-media passions to a temperature not reached since Watergate. Michael Barone - who was fair and balanced before Fox News was born - put it in perspective. Barone compared NYT executive editor Bill Keller's explanation of the Times's decisions to, on one hand, not republishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed with those to, on the other hand, publish both the NSA terrorist surveillance program and the Treasury Department's tracking terrorist money through the Belgian "SWIFT" consortium. Barone wrote, "Disclosing classified programs that help protect us against terrorism is just dandy. But publishing cartoons that would be 'perceived as a particularly deliberate insult' by Muslims is beyond the pale. Coddling tender sensitivities is more important [to the New York Times] than protecting national security."

[Obadiah]

[Gantz]

The "old gray whore" has been prey to "total dysfunction" since the days of Walter Duranty, and probably even before that.

[Dionysius]

"Coddling tender sensitivities is more important [to the New York Times] than protecting national security."

A very nice way of saying: "Kissing Muslim butt is more satisfying [to a treasonous rag hiding behind the 1st Amendment] than saluting the flag."

[Joe Boucher]

So the Times financial value has fallen on hard times,Maybe we should take up a collection for it?
Id contribute a gallon of gas to burn it to the ground.

[Socratic]

L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Commissioner, (think Pontiac, M.I. and part of Greater Detroit) has begun a campaign to boycott the Slimes. The last two days he has been on WJR radio to push this cause. He has been a big name in Detroit area politics for many years and WJR is one of the premier radio stations in the country. Its 50,000 watt clear-channel signal reaches 38 states and much of Canada. Patterson is going all out to make this a big cause.

[Diogenesis]

[Red Badger]

I wonder how many 9-11 victim's families still read the NYT?...........

[Socratic]

Bombs away!

[MEG33]

[kjo]

Simply an excellent column. It seems the TIMES has been hijacked by a handful of McGovernites who seem determined to drive the once great newspaper into a ditch.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good Graphic....

[oh8eleven]

[johnny7]

“Fabulist Jayson Blair really did - as the title of his pseudo-memoir said - burn down his "master's house."

“Mister Charlie... your propaganda mill is burnin' down!”

[litehaus]

since the days of Walter Duranty.......And the 50/60 year old tradition continues!

[litehaus]

Very appropiate...how bout his 'vacation' house?

[GOPJ]

"...the Times will publish any secret, no matter how damaging, if the publication will advance its campaign for Pennsylvania Avenue regime change. The Times's net worth as a newspaper and a brand name - its credibility, its financial value - is plummeting. The NYT Company's stock, traded on Wednesday at $24.37, has fallen 55% in value from its 2002 high of $53.80. The Times's credibility has also plummeted everywhere except those places where people suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome. Why? To understand the Times's agenda it's essential to study the soap opera now playing in the newspaper's solipsist covens and darkest caverns.

Great stuff. Thanks for the post.

[Dionysius]

"I wonder how many 9-11 victim's families still read the NYT?"

Besides the Jersy Girls?

[oyez]

More members of the Church of Woodward and Bernstein.

Such as the NYT no longer serve their readers but serve their own agenda. The reader only want the news reported but instead the obsolete gray lady wants to indoctrinate and control. They have surpassed yellow journalism. We should call it brown journalism and everyone knows what is colored brown. The sport section is it only saviour.

[Dionysius]

The New York Times is where aging hippies go to die.

[subterfuge]

Nobody that I know reads the rag, fwiw. I wish some did so I could "enlighten" them.