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Man Eloquently ends 50 year relationship with New York Times due to bias reporting (Original Post)
GeorgiaPeanuts
Apr 2016
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840high
(17,196 posts)1. When I was young the NYT
was the bible of news in our household. Not anymore.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)2. K&R.....
starroute
(12,977 posts)3. I gave up on the Times over their Vietnam War coverage
My mother saw through them in the 1930s because of their biased coverage of the Spanish Civil War.
Somehow it seems they always manage to come back and regain their reputation for objectivity. But there's never been a time when they weren't the house organ of the ruling class.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)4. their last gasps
The Guardian seems to be picking up the mantle in many areas, but it is sad when you start to literally expect articles from the NYTimes to be biased from the outset
RATM435
(392 posts)5. Here is part 2 of that video.
https://www.facebook.com/frank.puig/videos/1095534697135591/
Personally i would have canceled after the judith miller fiasco.
Personally i would have canceled after the judith miller fiasco.