Bad times (Thomas Sowell)

Jewish World Review ^ | February 26, 2008 | Thomas Sowell

[jazusamo]

The front page of the New York Times has increasingly become the home of editorials disguised as "news" stories. Too often it has become the home of hoaxes.

Going back some years, it was the Tawana Brawley hoax that she had been gang-raped by a bunch of white men. Just a couple of years ago, it was the Duke University "rape" hoax that they fell for.

In between there were the various hoaxes of New York Times reporter Jason Blair, who was kept on and promoted until too many people found out what he had been doing and the paper had to let him go.

Last month the New York Times created its own hoax with a long front page article about how war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were killing people back in the United States because of the stress they had gone through in combat.

That hoax was shot down two days later by the New York Post, which showed that the murder rate among returning war veterans was only one-fifth the murder rate among civilians in the same age brackets.

Undaunted, the New York Times has come up with its latest front-page sensation, the claim that some anonymous people either suspected an affair between Senator John McCain and a female lobbyist or tried to forestall an affair.

But apparently no one actually claimed that they knew there was an affair...

[verum ago]

in before the ping? :)

[jazusamo]

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Thomas Sowell

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[jazusamo]

:-)

[Carry_Okie]

In any newspaper, I read the editorials for the news and the news for the editorial policy.

Editorials state their opinions up front and have to back it up with facts. "News" hides opinion by redacting some facts and cherry-picking others.

[alecqss]

In 1976, when President Ford nominated me to the Federal Trade Commission, someone anonymously told an FBI investigator that I was a Communist.
Not even the people opposed to my nomination believed it and it was not reported in the New York Times.
This was back in the days when the Times still had a reputation for integrity, before the Jason Blair hoaxes, the gang-rape hoaxes and the general prostitution of the front page to politics masquerading as news.

Feels like a back to the future, with the NYT as new Pravda.

[OKIEDOC]

Finally people who matter to the dinosaur media folks are starting to question their once proud old gray lady.

The old gray lady with false teeth,and a Pinch for the far side of common sense.

[GOPJ]

People who share the New York Times' political views are treated as "innocent until proven guilty." People with different views are condemned for "the appearance of impropriety," even if there is no hard evidence that they did anything wrong.

Teacher's pet syndrome. As usual, Sowell "gets" the New York Times.

[nmh]

He’s a fine man.

It’s too bad the liberals mock him.

[jazusamo]

Agree, he got that exactly right.

[GOP_Raider]

In my younger years, I was suspected of having an affair with more than one attractive woman when — alas — there was nothing happening.

This hadn't occurred to me, but I bet Dr. Sowell was a big hit with the ladies back then. Perhaps we need to get the opinions of some actual ladies around here...

[jazusamo]

Yes, but I’m not too sure it bothers him, he out thinks and out writes all of them.

[eleni121]

Actually you are right...Pravda is far more truthful and objective than the Slimes on a whole host of issues.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Another beautiful piece by Thomas Sowell. Its tough to top this guy.

[Rembrandt]

As their circulation plummets, the Main Scream Media will effectively muzzle their own self. Can’t happen soon enough!

[the invisib1e hand]

hoax that they fell for.

he's being generous. they don't "fall for" hoaxes, they promote them.

[GOPJ]

Its tough to top this guy.

You're right about that - and thanks for the ping.

[jazusamo]

he's being generous. they don't "fall for" hoaxes, they promote them.

Absolutely.

[ari-freedom]

oh he mentions that he is a ladies man (his wife of course) every time he subs for rush!

[george76]

they create and then promote them