Friday, September 15, 2017

Robert Parry — The NYT’s Yellow Journalism on Russia

But the Times’ behavior over the past several years suggests something even more sinister than biased reporting. The “newspaper of record” has slid into yellow journalism, the practice of two earlier New York newspapers – William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World – that in the 1890s manipulated facts about the crisis in Cuba to push the United States into war with Spain, a conflict that many historians say marked the beginning of America’s global empire.
Except in today’s instance, The New York Times is prepping the American people for what could become World War III. The daily message is that you must learn to hate Russia and its President Vladimir Putin so much that, first, you should support vast new spending on America’s Military-Industrial Complex and, second, you’ll be ginned up for nuclear war if it comes to that....
The question naturally arises about just who is behind this propaganda onslaught, and for what reason.

Consortium News
The NYT’s Yellow Journalism on Russia
Robert Parry

2 comments:

Ryan Harris said...

Watch the Rohrabacher / Assange deal. The Deep state/NSA/CIA/State Dept/Beltway bureacrats are in a furor because it blows up the Russia! narrative.

Kaivey said...

Well, when you read that the majority of people back attacking NK and you then read that most people have no interest in politics and so they must get all their news from the TV which spills the lies. People are brainwashed with it all their lives so it's hard to get them to see the truth.