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(8,998 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Welcome back to the world of journalism, New York Times. If your ad is serious, that is.
kentuck
(111,089 posts)But, the important thing is that you are open to be corrected by anyone. The object is the truth, wherever it might come from. There is a difference in permitting a mistake to be corrected and permitting a mistake to be covered up and lied about.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And the Times stood by her stories, even through the invasion of Iraq and the squandering of billions upon billions of dollars and millions of lives. Elisabeth Bumiller's weekly valentines to the Bush administration were clearly designed to take the edge off these hard truths and lend a soft-focus image to a pack of blood-gargling psychopaths.
If the Times corrected any of this, it escaped my notice.
Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I mean, let's let bygones be bygones. We can argue all day long about who published credulous reports that bolstered the bogus case for invading Iraq, but the fact is the Times is now all dedicated to the truth (they even ran an ad!), so we can totally trust them now to be on the side of the angels forevermore.
Yeah, I'm still kind of unhappy about that whole Iraq thing and its foreseeable sequelae that continue to bedevil us to this day.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)This has fewer phrases that can be twisted to support the fake news contention that no one can ever really know the truth, but starting out with "the truth is hard," and "the truth is hidden" does not thrill me.
kentuck
(111,089 posts)What is in Donald Trump's tax returns, for example?
What was said in the phone call between Flynn and Russian official?
How much does Trump have invested in his businesses in Russia?
The truth is "hard" to get sometimes.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)than on describing its current state - which I see as feeding into the meme that no one really knows what's true.
Gothmog
(145,168 posts)Response to Gothmog (Reply #7)
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Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)I just want to kick this for exposure. So true...
No pun intended....