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How thr U.S. mainstream media misleads us
The government gives them what the want printed and the media obediantly complies.
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/aftermath-of-ukraine-photo-story-shows-need-for-more-caution/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
The Times led its print edition Monday with an article based in part on photographs that the State Department said were evidence of Russian military presence in popular uprisings in Ukraine. The headline read: “Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia.”
More recently, some of those grainy photographs have been discredited. The Times has published a second article backing off from the original and airing questions about what the photographs are said to depict, but hardly addressing how the newspaper may have been misled.
Here’s my take: The Times’s coverage of this crisis has had much to commend it, especially the quality of the on-the-ground reporting. But this article, with its reliance on an administration leak, was displayed too prominently and questioned too lightly. The Times’s influence demands that it be cautious, especially when deciding to publish what amounts to a government handout.
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/aftermath-of-ukraine-photo-story-shows-need-for-more-caution/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
The Times led its print edition Monday with an article based in part on photographs that the State Department said were evidence of Russian military presence in popular uprisings in Ukraine. The headline read: “Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia.”
More recently, some of those grainy photographs have been discredited. The Times has published a second article backing off from the original and airing questions about what the photographs are said to depict, but hardly addressing how the newspaper may have been misled.
Here’s my take: The Times’s coverage of this crisis has had much to commend it, especially the quality of the on-the-ground reporting. But this article, with its reliance on an administration leak, was displayed too prominently and questioned too lightly. The Times’s influence demands that it be cautious, especially when deciding to publish what amounts to a government handout.
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ZAP....BIFF...KAPOW!!
The fact that you do not think you are being misled by Russia Times is so amusing to me, I just sit here and chuckle every time I read it.
Your made up fact is wrong as usual. I'm well aware that all governments mislead, one has to be able to recognize that and be able to discern the truth behind the propaganda. Do you recognize that your government misleads you, or not?
I guess your non-answer is no, you do not think they mislead you,ok.
I take ahold of the governments wrists, putting my forefingers lightly on their pulse, and if I see their lips moving while doing this, I know they are lying. So you and me Ed are on the same page. Wink wink cup check.
Let me put it this way Ed, I think they get it wrong or are mislead by public officials. No doubt. The media really bjorked the run up to Iraq. But they sure were critical of the handling of the insurgency.
But you read sources with a stated editorial bias, that actually often misquote or pull facts out of their tuchas, and accept that they are telling you the truth because they support your anti-government bias. You refuse to engage in any critical thinking once you see a headline that you agree with and never once consider that their supporting evidence is complete rubbish. Or that their conclusions are so distorted and skewed that they are beyond reason and bordering on paranoid delusion.
LOL several times.