Jeffrey Sachs:

I had a chat with a longtime friend and actually a classmate of mine from Harvard from decades ago, who was a senior reporter at one of the most important newspapers. I said, “You know what? I think the US did it.” And he said, “Of course, the US did it. Who else?” And I said, Hmm, maybe your paper could mention something like that, but just today said “The Russians did it.” He said, “Come on, Jeff, come on!” I said, “Are you kidding? Could we have a serious discussion of this?” And he said to me, “You know, the editors not so interested in that.”

This is a friend from decades. I said, “You know, when I was young, I turned to your newspaper, because of Watergate, because of the Pentagon Papers. And I loved it. And he said to me, “That paper is so dead and gone, Jeff, you have to understand that.”

This a really talented guy. A lead journalist and he’s telling me the paper that I love is dead and gone.

If you asked me why, I really cannot figure it out why your paper doesn’t want to beat the government over the head when it tells ridiculous stories like “Nord Stream was was was blown up by six people on a boat,” like they tried for one day. Okay, come on. This was this was put out by serious media because it was almost a joke from the intelligence agency. Why these media are so in line with official narratives? I don’t fully understand. I know all the theories, money, advertising, power and many other things. But the truth is, it’s dreadful compared to what it was 40 years ago. Dreadful. And it’s gotten a lot worse.