Robert Parry: The NYT Veers Neocon

[marmar]

from Consortium News:



The NYT Veers Neocon

By Robert Parry
February 28, 2010


Many American progressives don’t want to recognize how bad the U.S. mainstream news media has become. It’s easier to praise a few exceptions to the rule and to hope that some pendulum will swing than to undertake the challenging task of building a new and honest media infrastructure.

But the hard reality is that the U.S. news media is getting worse, with now both premier national newspapers – the New York Times and the Washington Post – decidedly sliding into the neocon camp, where the likes of the Wall Street Journal have long resided.

For the Post, this may already be an old story, given its enthusiastic cheerleading for the Iraq War. The Times, however, was a somewhat different story. Yes, it did let Judith Miller and other staff writers promote the fictions about Iraq’s WMD, but it hadn’t sunk to the depths of the Post.

That is now changing as the Times – behind executive editor Bill Keller and editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal – tosses aside all pretense of objectivity in the cause of seeking “regime change” in Iran, today’s top priority for the neoconservatives.

At Consortiumnews.com, we have noted this trend for some months, not only in the New York Times opinion section but in its news columns where Iran’s alleged interest in acquiring a nuclear weapon is trumpeted incessantly (despite its denial of such a desire), while rogue nuclear states in the region (such as Israel, Pakistan and India) are given a pass. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/022810.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. The Washington Post is FAR more conservative than the NYT. nt

[OHdem10]

5. WaPo owned by prominent Republican Family. .

As with a lot of Newspapers owned by Republicans the Editorial
and Oped pages lean Republican. They usually try to keep the
remainder of paper pretty much down the middle.

[DJ13]

2. They "veered" with the Iraq invasion hype

Why some forget that is another story.

[bemildred]

3. Circumstances are just forcing them to be more overt.

That happened during the VietNam fandango too.

[bertman]

4. More of the same: Big Money looking out for its interests. REC. nt

[tcaudilllg]

6. Don't give in to delusion...

First of all, an Iranian regime change IS needed. Very much so. We should not isolate ourselves and hide in comfortable delusions that a people can rise up amidst a police state.

It's not just a neocon belief... it's a general belief.

[ShamelessHussy]

8. you said it...

thinking that we have the right to go around the world and force regime change was just as looney (and illegal) when we did it with Iraq.

That kinda thinking will get a lot of people killed.

[marmar]

9. Whatever.....Hi and Bye, Mr. Rumsfeld.

nt

[Stevepol]

7. Also the NYT refusal to correct their reporting of O'Keefe's lies in the ACORN affair.

They reported that O'Keefe wore the pimp outfit when he visited the ACORN offices, citing O'Keefe's testimony on Fox News as the proof, despite video evidence, that of objective investigators, and the admission of the individuals themselves that he didn't dress up in the outlandish pimp outfit.

I think they continue to refuse to correct this error.