Been seeing a lot of libs say they can’t trust the NYT and mainstream news any more but I’m sure there’s plenty of reasons to not trust them already. Recent or historical examples
Full-throated support for the invasion of Iraq
Look up Judith Miller
specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#The_Iraq_War
Listen to the site’s official podcast, Citations Needed
remember the Maine.
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Oh, that reminds me, didn’t NYTimes platform like a US Ambassador’s kid to shit talk venezuela when all that was going down around 2016/2017?
Someone have the info graphic for the Afghan sci-fi caves?
Do you mean Bin Laden’s Mountain Fortress, the place that’s totally real?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies
Straight from the top
Russian Revolution, 1917–1920
Lippmann and Merz alleged that the newspaper referred to events that had not taken place, atrocities that did not exist, and that it reported no fewer than 91 times that the Bolshevik regime was on the verge of collapse. “The news about Russia is an example of what people wanted to see, not what happened,” Lippmann and Merz wrote. “The main censor and the main propagandist was the hope and fear in the minds of reporters and editors.”
Really makes you think
What’s the recent scandal?
NYT did a big story about how Hamas allegedly weaponized sexual assault during operation Al-Aqsa Flood, but the person who did the story was not a journalist and every person she talked to in Israel gave her zero evidence and the main source they ended up quoting was an IOF propaganda mill that has a long history of just making shit up. It failed the most simple fact checking imaginable, stuff like “Hamas killed a pregnant woman” and then checking Israel’s list of civilian deaths and not finding a single pregnant person.
As a cherry on top, many of the crimes that were attributed to Hamas in that piece and related journalism were actually crimes that were well documented - when the IOF committed them in Lebanon.
They brought in a woman who used to work for Israeli intelligence with absolutely zero journalism experience to write an expose on how Hamas SA’d and beheaded everyone they could.
The Intercept and NYT love beefing with each other. Here’s one where the NYT lied trying to depose Evo Morales https://theintercept.com/2020/06/08/the-nyt-admits-key-falsehoods-that-drove-last-years-coup-in-bolivia-falsehoods-peddled-by-the-u-s-its-media-and-the-nyt/
