{"id":128327,"date":"2014-07-06T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=128327"},"modified":"2014-07-06T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:03:45","slug":"new-york-times-unleashes-ukraine-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/new-york-times-unleashes-ukraine-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Unleashes Ukraine Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><em>Robert Parry<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">As you read or watch the mainstream U.S. media accounts of the Ukrainian government\u2019s military offensive against ethnic Russians in East Ukraine, it\u2019s worth remembering that these MSM outlets have been feeding Americans a highly biased narrative of the crisis non-stop from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">For instance, New York Times correspondent David M. Herszenhorn included in a largely celebratory\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0089c4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/06\/world\/europe\/ukraine-and-rebels-clash-in-slovyansk.html?ref=world\">account<\/a>\u00a0of the Ukrainian blitzkrieg that overwhelmed ethnic Russian positions in the town of Slovyansk on Saturday this summary of the conflict\u2019s background:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe separatist rebellion is the latest, bloodiest chapter in a crisis that began in November after Viktor F. Yanukovych, then Ukraine\u2019s president, rejected a trade accord he had promised to sign with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia. Protesters took to the streets of Kiev, eventually driving Mr. Yanukovych from office. Within a week, Russia invaded Crimea, then annexed the peninsula.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herszenhorn, like nearly all his MSM colleagues, simply can\u2019t find it within himself to display the journalistic integrity needed to present an evenhanded and unbiased explication of how this crisis unfolded. Instead, it\u2019s all about blaming Ukraine\u2019s elected President Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Always absent is the fact that the EU\u2019s trade accord came with a draconian International Monetary Fund austerity plan attached, a prescription to inflict even more pain on the people of Ukraine who have suffered under a post-Soviet economic system dominated by a handful of corrupt oligarchs. The IMF plan would have simply hit the average Ukrainian even harder \u2013 with elimination of heating subsidies and devaluation of their currency \u2014 while the Ukrainian oligarchs and their Western financial backers would have escaped the pain, as usual. In rejecting the IMF scheme, Yanukovych opted for a more generous $15 billion loan deal from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/07\/06\/nyt-dishes-more-ukraine-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Parry As you read or watch the mainstream U.S. media accounts of the Ukrainian government\u2019s military offensive against ethnic Russians in East Ukraine, it\u2019s worth remembering that these MSM outlets have been feeding Americans a highly biased narrative of the crisis non-stop from the beginning. For instance, New York Times correspondent David M. Herszenhorn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-media-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}