Amazing, isn't it? For five years, the NY Times played the Bushco game: printing the stories that supported the Bush/PNAC lies that led to war, and ignoring the stories that would have exposed them.
They even held the NSA spying story for a full year so it would not be revealed before the election of 2004. And now, when they print a story that is once again OLD news....having been exposed by the President himself, they have become the convenient diversion from the painful realities that confront this nation.
For the entire Bush Presidency, the NY Times, like other corporate media news outlets, served as a willing conduit for administration propaganda. Why is so little attention being paid to the missing headlines....the ones that helped the American people to become the least informed of any industrialized nation?
Have a look at the very dramatic graphic in this article, published more than a full year ago at http://tvnewslies.org.
The article is on open letter to the paper, and explains in detail the stories that were never reported:
It opens:
To the Editors of the NY Times:
On the front page of every issue of your publication you proclaim that we will find "All the News That's Fit to Print." Unfortunately you have not lived up to that proclamation for quite some time.
I have a serious question for you people at the NY Times. Where the hell have these headlines been? (See below). Why have we had to cherry pick our news? Why to we have to read buried stories or international publications in order to know what is going on in our own country?
Here are some of the news HEADLINES that have been fit to print, only to be printed by the independent journalist, the blogger and various international publications. While on occasion these blockbuster stories end up buried somewhere in your 5 pound Sunday edition, they should be splattered all over the headlines until the issues that face our nation get addressed.
It's a good read, and an important one. Check out the graphic and you'll understand why:
http://www.tvnewslies.org/...