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Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2002
Krauthammer, Washington Times Blast NY Times
"It's only a slight stretch to state definitively
that The New York Times is a corrupt institution, wrote Russ Smith (Mugger) in
the New York Press.
Smith was commenting on Charles Krauthammer's blast
at the Times ("Kidnapped by the Times") for its blatantly dishonest story
fallaciously citing former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as having broken
with the Bush administration's attack-Iraq policy.
Wrote Krauthammer: "Not since William Randolph
Hearst famously cabled his correspondent in Cuba, "You furnish the pictures and
I'll furnish the war," has a newspaper so blatantly devoted its front pages to
editorializing about a coming American war as has Howell Raines's New York
Times. Hearst was for the Spanish-American War. Raines (for those who have been
incommunicado for the last year) opposes war with Iraq."
Noting that Raines' campaign against the Bush Iraq
policies is an ongoing one, Krauthammer wrote that a "story ("Republicans Break
with Bush on Iraq Strategy") that should be on Page A22, the absence of one
Iraqi opposition leader (out of a dozen-odd) at a meeting in Washington, is Page
A1, above the fold. Message: Disarray in the war camp. A previous above-the-fold
front-page story revealed - stop the presses! - that the war might be
financially costly."
The story lumped Kissinger with several other
Republicans said to be at odds with Bush on Iraq, despite the former secretary
of state's statement in the article the Times used to prove that Kissinger is in
the opposite camp from Bush: "The imminence of proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, the huge dangers it involves, the rejection of a viable inspection
system and the demonstrated hostility of Hussein combine to produce an
imperative for preemptive action."
There is, Krauthammer wrote, "hardly a more
succinct statement of the administration's case for war."
Such statements failed to prevent the Times from
"making Kissinger one of its two major Republican poster boys breaking with the
president (the other being former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft).
Indeed, the very next day's paper, again the lead front-page story, reiterated
the fiction, citing Kissinger (with Scowcroft) as part of 'a group of leading
Republicans who were warning [Bush] against going to war with Iraq.' "
Against going to war when Kissinger actually lays
out the case not only for "going to war, but for going to war soon," Krauthammer
wrote.
"Waiting will only magnify possibilities for
blackmail," Kissinger warned.
"It is one thing to give your front page to a
crusade against war with Iraq," Krauthammer wrote. "That's partisan journalism,
and that's what Raines's Times does for a living. It's another thing to include
Henry Kissinger in your crusade. That's just stupid. After all, it's checkable."
Krauthammer and Smith weren't alone in their
outrage at the Times' sleazy partisan journalism. The Washington Times weighed
in with this blast: "Last Friday, the New York Times ran a willfully misleading
front-page story which mischaracterized Henry Kissinger's critical endorsement
of President Bush's Iraq strategy.
"Combined with the intellectual slovenliness and
pack instincts of much of the Washington press corps, the Times article could
undermine support for the President's Iraq war aims - which, of course, was the
purpose of the article," the Times wrote.
Noting that the New York Times is the pre-eminent
newspaper in America (and probably the world), the Washington Times said that it
has "a singular responsibility to get its stories right."
"News outlets around the world rely on the accuracy
of its reporting and assume they are not being intentionally misled," the
Washington paper wrote. "It is one thing to add opinion to a news story. But to
intentionally mislead and confuse its readers on the newspaper's top, right,
above-the-fold front-page story (presumably a report on the most important event
of the day) is a dangerous and disgraceful occurrence.
"The New York Times takes pride in being considered
America's newspaper of record. This willful misrepresentation on a story of
historic importance will leave a deep and perhaps indelible stain on that
reputation."
Russ Smith is almost right except for saying it's
"only a slight stretch" to accuse the New York Times of being "a corrupt
institution."
It's no stretch at all.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/8/20/161652 "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests
bear rule by their money;
and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" -- Jer 5:31 ab
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