We must not forget that the New York Times cheer-leaded us into Iraq, thanks to a long stream of inaccurate WMD articles by Judith Miller and Thomas Friedman. The NYT is currently a big promoter or U.S. military involvement in Ukraine. It makes you wonder whether the NYT full-on uncritical embrace of Russiagate was the warm-up act for its Ukraine position.
At some point, we need to recognize that insanity is watching the NYT do the same thing over and over, yet assume that it will act otherwise.
My hope for 2023: That our journalists (especially the NYT) will become more thoughtful, more open to evidence, and there will be fewer articles like:
Greenwald’s discussion below is well worth watching and carefully bolstered with evidence and topped off with comments by Noam Chomsky:
