{"id":290848,"date":"2017-01-20T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-the-nyt-plays-with-history\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T01:06:07","slug":"how-the-nyt-plays-with-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-the-nyt-plays-with-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How the NYT Plays with History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Special Report:<\/strong> By failing to tell the hard truth about Establishment wrongdoing, The New York Times \u2014 along with other mainstream U.S. media outlets \u2014 has destabilized American democracy, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>Whenever The New York Times or some other mainstream news outlet holds itself out as a paragon of professional journalism \u2013 by wagging a finger at some pro-Trump \u201cfake news\u201d or some Internet \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d \u2013 I cringe at the self-delusion and hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20351\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-300x199.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20351\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-1028x684.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20351\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-1028x684.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nytimes_hq-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York Times building in New York City. (Photo from Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>No one hates fake news and fact-free conspiracy theories more than I do, but the sad truth is that the mainstream press has opened the door to such fantasies by losing the confidence of the American people and becoming little more than the mouthpiece for the Establishment, which spins its own self-serving narratives and tells its own lies.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than acting as a watchdog against these deceptions, the Times and its mainstream fellow-travelers have transformed themselves into little more than the Establishment\u2019s apologists and propagandists.<\/p>\n<p>If Iraq is the \u201cenemy,\u201d we are told wild tales about how Iraq\u2019s non-existent WMD is a danger to us all. If Syria is in Washington\u2019s crosshairs, we are given a one-sided account of what\u2019s happening there, black hats for the \u201cregime\u201d and white hats for the \u201crebels\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>If the State Department is backing a coup in Ukraine to oust an elected leader, we are regaled with tales of his corruption and how overthrowing a democratically chosen leader is somehow \u201cdemocracy promotion.\u201d Currently, we are getting uncritical stenography on every conceivable charge that the U.S. government lodges against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, while this crisis in American journalism has grown more severe in recent years, the pattern is not entirely new. It is reflected in how the mainstream media has missed many of the most significant news stories of modern history and has, more often than not, been an obstacle to getting at the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Then, if the evidence finally becomes so overwhelming that continued denials are no longer tenable, the mainstream media tries to reclaim its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/01\/19\/how-the-nyt-plays-with-history\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Report: By failing to tell the hard truth about Establishment wrongdoing, The New York Times \u2014 along with other mainstream U.S. media outlets \u2014 has destabilized American democracy, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Whenever The New York Times or some other mainstream news outlet holds itself out as a paragon of professional journalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290848","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}