{"id":27270,"date":"2017-10-26T06:18:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27270"},"modified":"2017-10-26T06:18:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:18:14","slug":"nyts-assault-on-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27270","title":{"rendered":"NYT\u2019s Assault on Press Freedom\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NYT\u2019s Assault on Press Freedom\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong> The New York Times, which once postured as the champion of a free press, now is seeking crackdowns on news that the public gets from the Internet under the guise of combatting \u201cRussian propaganda,\u201d explains Daniel Lazare.<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time the danger to a free press came from the right.\u00a0But since Russia-gate, liberals have been busy playing catch-up.<\/p>\n

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

The latest example is a front-page article<\/a> in Tuesday\u2019s New York Times.\u00a0Entitled \u201cYouTube Gave Russian Outlet Portal Into U.S.,\u201d it offers the usual blah-blah-blah about Kremlin agents engaging in the political black arts.\u00a0But it goes a step farther by attempting to discredit a perfectly legitimate news organization.<\/p>\n

Reporters Daisuke Wakabayashi and Nicholas Confessore begin by noting that RT, the Moscow-funded TV channel formerly known as \u201cRussia Today,\u201d is now an Internet powerhouse and then observes that when it became the first YouTube news channel to surpass one million views, YouTube Vice President Robert Kyncl \u201cjoined an RT anchor in a studio, where he praised RT for \u2026 providing \u2018authentic\u2019 content instead of \u2018agendas or propaganda.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Cue the ominous background music. \u201cBut now,\u201d the article continues, \u201cas investigators in Washington examine the scope and reach of Russian interference in United States policy, the once-cozy relationship between RT and YouTube is drawing closer scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0Because RT took advantage of its \u201cprominent presence on YouTube\u2019s search results\u201d to pepper viewers with negative videos about Hillary Clinton.\u00a0According to Wakabayashi and Confessore:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the presidential election heated up in the spring of 2016, RT\u00a0consistently featured negative stories about Mrs. Clinton, according to United States intelligence officials.\u00a0That included claims of corruption at her family foundation and ties to Islamic extremism, frequent coverage of emails stolen by Russian operatives from Mrs. Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman, and accusations that she was in poor physical and mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NYT\u2019s Assault on Press Freedom\u00a0 Exclusive: The New York Times, which once postured as the champion of a free press, now is seeking crackdowns on news that the public gets from the Internet under the guise of combatting \u201cRussian propaganda,\u201d explains Daniel Lazare. Once upon a time the danger to a free press came from […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[6963,7398,512,1921,8682,938,655,1291,694,13746,15282],"class_list":["post-27270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-daniel-lazare","tag-media","tag-new-york-times","tag-nyt","tag-press-freedom","tag-propaganda","tag-rt","tag-russia","tag-russia-today","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270","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=27270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27271,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270\/revisions\/27271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}