The New York Times Dishes More Ukraine Propaganda

[Judi Lynn]

The New York Times Dishes More Ukraine Propaganda
Monday, 07 July 2014 10:41
By Robert Parry, Consortium News | Report

As you read or watch the mainstream U.S. media’s accounts of the Ukrainian government’s military offensive against ethnic Russians in East Ukraine, it’s worth remembering that these MSM outlets have been feeding Americans a highly biased narrative of the crisis non-stop from the beginning.

For instance, New York Times correspondent David M. Herszenhorn included in a largely celebratory account of the Ukrainian blitzkrieg that overwhelmed ethnic Russian positions in the town of Slovyansk on Saturday this summary of the conflict’s background:

“The separatist rebellion is the latest, bloodiest chapter in a crisis that began in November after Viktor F. Yanukovych, then Ukraine’s president, rejected a trade accord he had promised to sign with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia. Protesters took to the streets of Kiev, eventually driving Mr. Yanukovych from office. Within a week, Russia invaded Crimea, then annexed the peninsula.”

Herszenhorn, like nearly all his MSM colleagues, simply can’t find it within himself to display the journalistic integrity needed to present an evenhanded and unbiased explication of how this crisis unfolded. Instead, it’s all about blaming Ukraine’s elected President Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin for everything.

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Same old pity parade that Parry's been throwing for the past five months.

Basically it's him just whining that nobody is buying his grossly distorted narrative of events.

[Nitram]

2. Yup

The NY Times account is right on the money.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. The part where Parry's agenda is ever so obvious:

Where he denies that what happened in Crimea was a Russian invasion by pointing to the fact that Russia was permitted to maintain naval bases on the peninsula after the Soviet breakup. Of course, he conveniently omits the fact that Russian troops were to be limited to the naval bases themselves, not the entire peninsula. Which, of course, Russian troops did.

What sort of honest investigative reporter would purposefully omit such a key fact in order to argue their point? Robert Parry is not an honest reporter.

[geek tragedy]

3. Parry must really want that slot on Russia Today nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. I'm not someone to label everyone and anyone a Putin apologist.

However, if you read that page, it's really hard not to think Parry might indeed qualify.

[geek tragedy]

6. He's one of the loons insisting that the Syrian government obviously

didn't use poison gas anyone.

Because that's what Putin told him to think.

Whatever good Parry may have done in his earlier career, his current career is that of licking Putin's jackboots.