Unintended or Intended Complicity? Evil at Work? Simple Ignorance?
The New York Times reported that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza. So eager to run with their narrative, the editors never fact-checked the story, but took it as Hamas told the tale. Hamas, mind you, an organization bent on genocide and the perpetrator of the massacre in Israel, said that Israelis were responsible. Now there’s a reliable source of information for the purported newspaper par excellence, the Preeminent Gray Lady.
The Gray Lady as the center of newspaperdom can no longer be trusted. She’s so agenda-ridden that her news is tainted by association with a number of false stories. She is now a rag whose intent isn’t objective reporting, but a careless pursuit of an agenda, a largely liberal agenda that, for example, could not accept the Hunter laptop as a reality and won’t accept that there’s something worth investigating in the Biden finance network. That the paper’s editors echoed the Russian disinformation explanation and the Russian collusion stories is a clue to their bias and incompetence. The predetermined narrative runs their stories, not in-depth research and reporting.
And now, the Gray Lady can be accused of complicity in a worldwide antisemitism that will, if it has not already, threaten American Jews everywhere, including on college campuses.
Consciously or Unconsciously Complicit in Evil?
But the paper has not just lost its veneer of sophistication and reliability, the Gray Lady has now also become complicit in actual civil unrest, property damage, rage, and injury and death. Its Hamas-driven story of the hospital bombing has further inflamed the antisemitism that we see in the streets of major cities, including New York. The paper’s inflammatory false tale has exacerbated the worsening relations between those who were marginal antisemites and Jews all over the world. The rush-to-press falsehood feeds an angry Arab world, neo-Nazis, and those college students woefully lacking in knowledge because of liberal, socialist, and Marxist professors who foster hate both subtly and overtly.
Ineffective Late Retractions Can’t Erase the Damage: It’s Too Little, Too Late
So, the paper has now apologized for the erroneous reporting.
Here’s a passage: “Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict and the prominent promotion it received, Times [sic.] editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.” The editors follow this with a promise to review their procedures.
Is there any way to know whether or not the retraction has altered the minds of those who already marched against Israel and for Hamas in part motivated by the false story? Is there a NY Times reporter pursuing Rashida Harbi Tlaib, the congresswoman who incited a crowd to chant its hatred of Israel, to tell her that she was wrong and that it was Hamas that bombed the hospital? To ask her to retract a claim derived from false reporting? Did the Times try to convince her that the casualties at the hospital were also exaggerated?
Once moved, once moving, the mob is hard to stop. The Gray Lady must not understand the principle of inertia. Certainly, she hasn’t applied an equal force to halt the movement.
As Forrest Gump’s Mother Says, “Stupid Is As Stupid Does”
No, the NY Times unleashed the hatred and exacerbated the tensions. Good work, editors. Are any of the paper’s employees Jewish? Did you potentially incite someone in those crowds of marchers who believed your story to seek revenge on one of your staff? Stupid is as stupid does. Coupled with evil, stupid makes the Gray Lady complicit in damage and harm.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-769779
The New York Times reported that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza. So eager to run with their narrative, the editors never fact-checked the story, but took it as Hamas told the tale. Hamas, mind you, an organization bent on genocide and the perpetrator of the massacre in Israel, said that Israelis were responsible. Now there’s a reliable source of information for the purported newspaper par excellence, the Preeminent Gray Lady.
The Gray Lady as the center of newspaperdom can no longer be trusted. She’s so agenda-ridden that her news is tainted by association with a number of false stories. She is now a rag whose intent isn’t objective reporting, but a careless pursuit of an agenda, a largely liberal agenda that, for example, could not accept the Hunter laptop as a reality and won’t accept that there’s something worth investigating in the Biden finance network. That the paper’s editors echoed the Russian disinformation explanation and the Russian collusion stories is a clue to their bias and incompetence. The predetermined narrative runs their stories, not in-depth research and reporting.
And now, the Gray Lady can be accused of complicity in a worldwide antisemitism that will, if it has not already, threaten American Jews everywhere, including on college campuses.
Consciously or Unconsciously Complicit in Evil?
But the paper has not just lost its veneer of sophistication and reliability, the Gray Lady has now also become complicit in actual civil unrest, property damage, rage, and injury and death. Its Hamas-driven story of the hospital bombing has further inflamed the antisemitism that we see in the streets of major cities, including New York. The paper’s inflammatory false tale has exacerbated the worsening relations between those who were marginal antisemites and Jews all over the world. The rush-to-press falsehood feeds an angry Arab world, neo-Nazis, and those college students woefully lacking in knowledge because of liberal, socialist, and Marxist professors who foster hate both subtly and overtly.
Ineffective Late Retractions Can’t Erase the Damage: It’s Too Little, Too Late
So, the paper has now apologized for the erroneous reporting.
Here’s a passage: “Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict and the prominent promotion it received, Times [sic.] editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.” The editors follow this with a promise to review their procedures.
Is there any way to know whether or not the retraction has altered the minds of those who already marched against Israel and for Hamas in part motivated by the false story? Is there a NY Times reporter pursuing Rashida Harbi Tlaib, the congresswoman who incited a crowd to chant its hatred of Israel, to tell her that she was wrong and that it was Hamas that bombed the hospital? To ask her to retract a claim derived from false reporting? Did the Times try to convince her that the casualties at the hospital were also exaggerated?
Once moved, once moving, the mob is hard to stop. The Gray Lady must not understand the principle of inertia. Certainly, she hasn’t applied an equal force to halt the movement.
As Forrest Gump’s Mother Says, “Stupid Is As Stupid Does”
No, the NY Times unleashed the hatred and exacerbated the tensions. Good work, editors. Are any of the paper’s employees Jewish? Did you potentially incite someone in those crowds of marchers who believed your story to seek revenge on one of your staff? Stupid is as stupid does. Coupled with evil, stupid makes the Gray Lady complicit in damage and harm.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-769779
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