Irvine511 said:
so you've given me one reason.
where's the other?
it does seem, in this case, the term "disgrace" does not apply. in fact, "disgrace" is a rather strong term.
1) The Times refrained from showing the Danish cartoons that set off violence in much of the world because (in a Feb 7, 2006 editorial) "That seems a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually
refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols" yet the next day -- THE NEXT DAY -- ran a picture of Chris Ofili's
Holy Virgin Mary, a "work of art" that shows the Virgin Mary surrounded by pornographic images and clumps of elephant dung.
Guess it's OK to offend Christians.
2) Eric Lichtblau and James Risen disclose details about the NSA surveillance program. Some nice FYM threads about this already but it's comforting to know that the Times puts winning Pulitzers before national security isn't it?
3) Even though no laws were broken, last year the Times runs a long story exposing a secret government program to track the international bank transfers of terror suspects.
Reporter Eric Lichtblau explains the whole story was "common knowledge." Well it is now.
4) If for no other reason, #2 and #3 fit the liberal/NYT template that says "Bush is the real threat" in the "so called War on Terror."
Which is why (as detailed in Bernard Goldman's new book Crazies To The Left Of Me, Wimps To The Right), the New York Times put Abu Ghraib on the front page
FOR THIRTY-TWO CONSECUTIVE DAYS. 32, as in one straight month. Including Sundays Ormus!!
Why does Abu Ghraib make the front page for 32 straight days while a story about a foiled plot to blowup one of the world's busiest airports in the Times own backyard gets buried in it's paper?
Why? Because the New York Times is far more concerned with embarrassing George Bush and electing a Democrat in 2008 -- far more interested in reporting the misdeeds of Americans -- far too worried about offending Muslims -- to honestly, honestly, report about what's going on around our world today.
Read it at your own risk.