AlterNet Cites FAIR on NYT’s ‘Normalizing Fascism’

EU as manacle (image: Nicolas Ortega)

The New York Times illustrated its Marine Le Pen op-ed (6/28/16) with an image of the EU as a manacle. (image: Nicolas Ortega)

In an article headlined “The NY Times Is Normalizing Fascism by Running Marine Le Pen’s Column,” AlterNet‘s Sarah Lazare (6/28/16) cited FAIR’s Jim Naureckas on the Times publishing an op-ed by the far-right French leader:

“There’s always a question of who gets a place at the table to be part of the discussion,” Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra!, the magazine of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, told AlterNet. “And the people who are chosen to be invited to the New York Times op-ed page are the people designated by the media establishment as worth hearing and having their ideas taken seriously.”

“When you have the leader of a neo-fascist party given that platform,” Naureckas continued, “they really are opening up political space to people who have ideologies that one would have thought were permanently put outside the realm of acceptable opinion.”

This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission from FAIR.