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The Dumbed-Down New York Times
By Robert Parry
....The Times reporting on Ukraine has been particularly dishonest and hypocritical. The Times ignores the substantial evidence that the U.S. government encouraged and supported a violent coup that overthrew elected President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 22, 2014, including a pre-coup intercepted phone call between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discussing who should lead the new government and how to midwife this thing.
The Times also played down the key role of neo-Nazis and extreme nationalists in killing police before the coup, seizing government building during the coup, and then spearheading the slaughter of ethnic Russian Ukrainians after the coup. If you wanted to detect the role of these SS-wannabes from the Times coverage, youd have to scour the last few paragraphs of a few stories that dealt with other aspects of the Ukraine crisis.
While leaving out the context, the Times has repeatedly claimed that Russia invaded Crimea, although curiously without showing any photographs of an amphibious landing on Crimeas coast or Russian tanks crashing across Ukraines border en route to Crimea or troops parachuting from the sky to seize strategic Crimean targets.
The reason such evidence of an invasion was lacking is that Russian troops were already stationed in Crimea as part of a basing agreement for the port of Sevastopol. So, it was a very curious invasion indeed, since the Russian troops were on scene before the invasion and their involvement after the coup was peaceful in protecting the Crimean population from the depredations of the new regimes neo-Nazis. The presence of a small number of Russian troops also allowed the Crimeans to vote on whether to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia, which they did with a 96 percent majority....
The Times also played down the key role of neo-Nazis and extreme nationalists in killing police before the coup, seizing government building during the coup, and then spearheading the slaughter of ethnic Russian Ukrainians after the coup. If you wanted to detect the role of these SS-wannabes from the Times coverage, youd have to scour the last few paragraphs of a few stories that dealt with other aspects of the Ukraine crisis.
While leaving out the context, the Times has repeatedly claimed that Russia invaded Crimea, although curiously without showing any photographs of an amphibious landing on Crimeas coast or Russian tanks crashing across Ukraines border en route to Crimea or troops parachuting from the sky to seize strategic Crimean targets.
The reason such evidence of an invasion was lacking is that Russian troops were already stationed in Crimea as part of a basing agreement for the port of Sevastopol. So, it was a very curious invasion indeed, since the Russian troops were on scene before the invasion and their involvement after the coup was peaceful in protecting the Crimean population from the depredations of the new regimes neo-Nazis. The presence of a small number of Russian troops also allowed the Crimeans to vote on whether to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia, which they did with a 96 percent majority....
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45377.htm
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Commenting on this piece, ICH reader Rand T:
"You might get a decent restaurant review in the NYT, or some accurate information on a museum opening. Anything relating to politics, economics, and international conflicts -- particularly in whitewashing Israeli atrocities or ramping up hysteria for U.S. wars -- is non-stop propaganda.
You could use the paper in a parakeet cage to collect bird shit -- but you run the risk of dumbing down the poor birds."
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The Dumbed-Down New York Times (Original Post)
Mr_Jefferson_24
Aug 2016
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applegrove
(118,633 posts)1. N yet!
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)2. Thank you Applegrove...
...brilliantly insightful, as always.
Hey did you catch ICH reader Dogtowners' response to Rand T in the comments section?
It's a keeper. I think you'll like it:
"Another use for the NYT (which I pick up at the library for free) is to start fires in our woodstoves. Someone complained that the WSJ wasn't as good for starting fires, but I have not found this to be the case."
applegrove
(118,633 posts)3. I was disagreeing and implying that the OP would understand when I said
"NO" in Russian. This is propaganda. Putin hates nothing as much as fact based brilliant journalism like the NYTIMES.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)5. Fact based brilliant journalism?
The New York Times? Either you forgot this: , or you have an extraordinarily short memory.
Here's a little refresher:
https://m.
Judi Lynn
(160,525 posts)4. Courageous journalist, great reader comment. Thank you, Mr Jefferson 24.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)6. You're very welcome Judi.