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Related: About this forumClinton crusader David Brock: The New York Times has 'a special place in hell.' (HILLARY GROUP)
David Brocks war against the New York Times just went nuclear and the paper is responding with equal fury.
Brock, the former right-wing journalist-turned-pro-Clinton crusader, takes aim at a top New York Times editor in a soon-to-be released book obtained by POLITICO. In the book, titled "Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary Clinton and Hijack Your Government, Brock accuses senior politics editor and former Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan of helping to turn the paper into a megaphone for conservative propaganda by unfairly targeting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
...he uses the book as a platform to attack the Times whose editorial board endorsed Clinton over Barack Obama in 2008 over its approach towards the Clintons from the Whitewater investigations of the 1990s to the current coverage of Hillary Clintons private email server.
As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in hell, he writes, claiming that interviews with current Times employees prove his case.
The 52-year-old Brock singles out Ryan, who directs the Times political coverage, for refusing to publish in full a Clinton spokesmans response to the papers March scoop detailing Clintons use of a homebrew email server instead of her official State Department email account.
Ryan held forth to colleagues that the response from spokesman Nick Merrill had been edited down to a few stray phrases because she Carolyn Ryan believed it was a lie and that the Clintons just lie, Brock writes, citing unnamed sources inside the Times New York newsroom....
Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/david-brock-new-york-times-hell-213484#ixzz3lNwATO1t
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Politico's reporting has been worse that the NY Times.
Example - this false statement from this article :
"The Times, led by reporter Michael Schmidt, has mostly led the pack on the server story. Clintons use of a private email account which may have been used to receive classified emails prompted a Department of Justice investigation and raised new questions about her candor, transparency and trustworthiness."
Failure to acknowledge that the only issue is various agencies fighting to decide what should be retroactively classified makes Politico writers profoundly dishonest and/or stupid or both.
What a bunch of assholes.