{"id":25723,"date":"2017-09-16T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25723"},"modified":"2017-09-16T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:24:36","slug":"the-nyts-yellow-journalism-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25723","title":{"rendered":"The NYT\u2019s Yellow Journalism on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NYT\u2019s Yellow Journalism on Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong> The New York Times\u2019 descent into yellow journalism over Russia recalls the sensationalism of Hearst and Pulitzer leading to the Spanish-American War, but the risks to humanity are much greater now, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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Reading The New York Times these days is like getting a daily dose of the \u201cTwo Minutes Hate\u201d as envisioned in George Orwell\u2019s 1984,<\/em>except applied to America\u2019s new\/old enemy Russia. Even routine international behavior, such as Russia using fictitious names for potential adversaries during a military drill, is transformed into something weird and evil.<\/p>\n

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The New York Times building in Manhattan. (Photo credit: Robert Parry)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the snide and alarmist style that the Times now always applies to Russia, reporter Andrew Higgins wrote<\/a> \u2013 referring to a fictitious war-game \u201cenemy\u201d \u2013 \u201cThe country does not exist, so it has neither an army nor any real citizens, though it has acquired a feisty following of would-be patriots online. Starting on Thursday, however, the fictional state, Veishnoriya, a distillation of the Kremlin\u2019s darkest fears about the West, becomes the target of the combined military might of Russia and its ally Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n

This snarky front-page story in Thursday\u2019s print editions also played into the Times\u2019 larger narrative about Russia as a disseminator of \u201cfake news.\u201d You see the Russkies are even inventing \u201cfictional\u201d enemies to bully. Hah-hah-hah! The article was entitled, \u201cRussia\u2019s War Games With Fake Enemies Cause Real Alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, the U.S. and its allies also conduct war games against fictitious enemies, but you wouldn\u2019t know that from reading the Times. For instance, U.S. war games<\/a> in 2015 substituted five made-up states \u2013 Ariana, Atropia, Donovia, Gorgas and Limaria \u2013 for nations near the Caucasus mountains along the borders of Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n

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The NYT\u2019s Yellow Journalism on Russia Exclusive: The New York Times\u2019 descent into yellow journalism over Russia recalls the sensationalism of Hearst and Pulitzer leading to the Spanish-American War, but the risks to humanity are much greater now, writes Robert Parry. Reading The New York Times these days is like getting a daily dose of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1212,6963,1921,8682,7203,694,900],"class_list":["post-25723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-consortium-news","tag-new-york-times","tag-nyt","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-yellow-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25724,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions\/25724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}