{"id":8483,"date":"2015-05-26T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2015-05-26T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:22:29","slug":"noam-chomsky-reads-the-new-york-times-explains-why-paper-of-record-is-pure-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8483","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times — Explains Why ‘Paper of Record’ Is Pure Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times — Explains Why ‘Paper of Record’ Is Pure Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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From Laos to the Middle East, a roundup of Times stories that piqued the interest of the esteemed scholar.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A front-page article is devoted to a flawed story about a campus rape in the journal Rolling Stone, exposed in the leading academic journal of media critique. So severe is this departure from journalistic integrity that it is also the subject of the lead story in the business section, with a full inside page devoted to the continuation of the two reports. The shocked reports refer to several past crimes of the press: a few cases of fabrication, quickly exposed, and cases of plagiarism (\u201ctoo numerous to list\u201d). The specific crime of Rolling Stone is \u201clack of skepticism,\u201d which is \u201cin many ways the most insidious\u201d of the three categories.<\/p>\n

It is refreshing to see the commitment of the Times to the integrity of journalism.<\/p>\n

On page 7 of the same issue, there is an important story by Thomas Fuller headlined \u201cOne Woman\u2019s Mission to free Laos from Unexploded Bombs.\u201d It reports the \u201csingle-minded effort\u201d of a Lao-American woman, Channapha Khamvongsa, \u201cto rid her native land of millions of bombs still buried there, the legacy of a nine-year American air campaign that made Laos one of the most heavily bombed places on earth\u201d \u2013 soon to be outstripped by rural Cambodia, following the orders of Henry Kissinger to the US air force: \u201cA massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves.\u201d A comparable call for virtual genocide would be very hard to find in the archival record. It was mentioned in the Times in an article on released tapes of President Nixon, and elicited little notice.<\/p>\n

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