{"id":64904,"date":"2023-01-30T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64904"},"modified":"2023-01-30T06:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T11:59:29","slug":"the-new-york-times-is-orwells-ministry-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64904","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times is Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"before-post\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/01\/29\/the-new-york-times-is-orwells-ministry-of-truth\/\"><span class=\"the-title\">The New York Times is Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_page-content post\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\">As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of snow littering the frozen ground.\u00a0 As light snow began to fall, I felt a deep mourning in my soul as a memory came to me of another snowy day in 1972 when I awoke to news of Richard Nixon\u2019s savage Christmas bombing of North Vietnam with more than a hundred B-52 bombers, in wave after wave, dropping death and destruction on Hanoi and other parts of North Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the war the United States is now waging against Russia via Ukraine and how, as during the U.S. war against Vietnam, few Americans seem to care until it becomes too late.\u00a0 It depressed me.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after I was greeted by an editorial from\u00a0<em>The New York Times\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Editorial Board, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/21\/opinion\/russia-ukraine.html\"><em>A Brutal New Phase of the War in Ukraine<\/em><\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 It is a piece of propaganda so obvious that only those desperate to believe blatant lies would not fall down laughing.\u00a0 Yet it is no laughing matter, for\u00a0<em>The N.Y. Times<\/em>\u00a0is advocating for a wider war, more lethal weapons for Ukraine, and escalation of the fighting that risks nuclear war.\u00a0 So their title is apt because they are promoting the brutality.\u00a0 This angered me.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times\u2019\u00a0<\/em>Editorial Board tells us that President Putin, like Hitler, is mad.\u00a0 \u201cLike the last European war, this one is mostly one man\u2019s madness.\u201d\u00a0 Russia and Putin are \u201ccruel\u201d; are conducting a \u201cregular horror\u201d with missile strikes against civilian targets; are \u201cdesperate\u201d; are pursuing Putin\u2019s \u201cdelusions\u201d; are waging a \u201cterrible and useless war\u201d; are \u201ccommitting atrocities\u201d; are responsible for \u201cmurder, rape and pillaging,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of snow littering the frozen ground.\u00a0 As light snow began to fall, I felt a deep mourning in my soul as a memory came to me of another snowy day [&hellip;]<\/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":[16936,1211,1655,24368,655,21167],"class_list":["post-64904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-edward-curtin","tag-george-orwell","tag-ministry-of-truth","tag-off-guardian-2","tag-propaganda","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904","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=64904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64905,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904\/revisions\/64905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}