Sana Saeed sur X :
Jesus Christ, you absolute sick ghouls @nytimes
Gaza convoy that ended in death was part of a plan to try to fill a void in aid distribution.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/02/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/gaza-aid-convoy-that-ended-in-death-was-part-of-a-new-israeli-operation
The aid convoy that devolved into a disaster on Thursday, ending with scores of Palestinians dead, was part of a new Israeli operation to get desperately needed food to Gaza residents by working directly with local businessmen, according to an Israeli official, Palestinian businessmen and Western diplomats.
In a rare move, Israel was involved in organizing at least four such aid convoys to northern Gaza this past week after international aid groups suspended operations to the area, citing both Israeli refusals to greenlight aid trucks and rising lawlessness. But on Thursday, that effort backfired on Israeli planners.
AHMED | أحمد sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/ASE/status/1761800577359430031
At the age of 23, after graduating from Columbia University and working briefly for PBS, I went through 7 rounds of interviews and finally landed a job at the NYT as a news producer.
On my 3rd day on the job, on the graveyard shift which was from 5pm-2am I had to fill out some HR paperwork, so I went by the head of HR’s office (her name was Barbara) before 5pm to ask if I could fill it out and return it to her later or leave it on her desk.
She stared at me and said, and I quote verbatim: “How do I know you are not gonna leave a bomb under my desk?”
At the time I was so startled and shocked. I didn’t know how to react. But I happened to not be alone in the room, as she had already been meeting with the new young business reporter who was Jewish, and who had happened to also hear her offensive retort, and had a look on his face of complete confusion and horror.
To this day, I tried to believe that maybe she just had a bad sense of humor, but her tone and delivery was not that of someone who is making a joke, but of someone who wanted to prove some sort of point.
Horrified, I remember going to a mentor at the New York Times, who had once been one of my adjuncts at Columbia University and I told her something very horrible just happened to me and I didn’t want to tell her the details because I was so startled and worried for how it could potentially impact this new great gig that I had landed .
I will never forget what my mentor said to me who had been at the NYT for over a decade, she said, “Ahmed there are people here who will want you to succeed, and there are more people here who will want you to fail.”
Ultimately, I decided not to confront or report what the head of HR said at the time, as it was a very strange time given the Iraq war, and the climate in the newsroom was already very politically charged.
I share this experience now, in light of the misinformation being published by the New York Times, that is masquerading as journalism.
I only lasted six months at the #New_York_Times, and there are many reasons for that and while I have good friends who still work there, it is an indisputable fact that the #NYT is manufacturing consent for #genocide.
☀️👀 sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1761249450998022442
oh my god. One of the three authors of the New York Times’ “mass rape” atrocity propaganda hoax is Anat Schwartz. She liked posts calling for Gaza to be turned into a “slaughterhouse”. This the person the #NYT hired to write about Palestinians and frame them as sub-human monsters
she also liked posts repeating the 40 beheaded babies hoax. This is unbelievable. The #New_York_Times got Anat Schwartz along with Adam Sella and Jeffrey Gettleman, both of whom are also rabid Zionist maniacs, to freely express their deep racist contempt of Palestinians. Holy shit
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/extraordinary-charges-of-bias-emerge-against-nytimes-reporter-anat-schwa
The latest questions are centered around Anat Schwartz, an Israeli who co-authored several of the paper’s most widely circulated reports, including the now well-known and scrutinized December 28 article headlined: “‘Screams Without Words’’ How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.”
Independent researchers scrutinized the online record, and raised serious questions about Schwartz. First, she has apparently never been a reporter but is actually a filmmaker, who the Times suddenly hired in October. You would expect the paper to look for someone with actual journalistic experience, especially for a story as sensitive as this one, written during the fog of war. Surely the paper had enough of its own correspondents on staff who could have been assigned to it.
Next, the researchers found that Schwartz had not hidden her strong feelings online. There are screenshots of her “liking” certain posts that repeated the “40 beheaded baby” hoax, and that endorsed another hysterical post that urged the Israeli army to “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse,” and called Palestinians “human animals.”
Etc., etc.
Le #New_York_Times dans ses très basses œuvres (encore une fois).
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/briefing/israel-gaza-war-death-toll.html
Il faut présenter les chose non pas telles qu’elles sont, mais comme Biden avait annoncé qu’elles le seront.
#obscène effectivement
Adam Johnson sur X
▻https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1749425455864729606
Truly the most evil and misleading thing Leonhardt has written and this is saying something. No mention of deaths caused by disease, birth complications or starvation. Also ignores limits of Gaza officials’ count since every hospital, and thus their capacity, has been destroyed
Leonhardt is a craven partisan hatchet man and the genocide-lite narrative is the only one the White House can plausibly try and push and here he is carrying out his disagreeable task. Absolutely shameful, intellectually and morally dishonest
Coincidentally episode on Leonhardt and his bullshit “data driven” schtick dropping Wednesday
This is beyond obscene. Again,
(A) the death count is incomplete due to Israel destroying nearly every hospital in Gaza.
(B) starvation and disease are currently the preferred weapon of mass death which are not included in these totals
(C) the evidence of maximizing civilian deaths wasn’t parsing relative reported deaths (?) it was based on Israeli officials own genocidal comments, explicit policy of collective punishment, and reporting that showed deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure
Remi Brulin sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1737125265669583224
You know which Newspaper of Record REPORTED on the Pope’s speech about the killing of 2 women in a church in Gaza by an Israeli sniper, QUOTED fm that speech but ERASED the passage where the Pope called it TERRORISM?
The #New_York_Times, of course
Capturing One Million Deaths on a Page: A Chat with NYT’s Carrie Mifsud
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/capturing-one-million-deaths-on-a-page-carrie-mifsud
Carrie Mifsud of “The #New_York_Times” talks about her award-winning front (and back) page #Design to commemorate one million COVID deaths.
Des journalistes demandent aux soldats ukrainiens de cacher leurs écussons nazis, admet le New York Times Tyler Durden
Le New York Times a été contraint de traiter très, très tardivement de quelque chose qui était depuis longtemps évident et connu de nombreux analystes et médias indépendants, mais qui a été soigneusement caché aux masses dominantes en Occident pour des raisons évidentes.
Les auteurs du rapport du NYT commencent par exprimer leur frustration face à l’apparence des symboles nazis affichés si fièrement sur les uniformes de nombreux soldats ukrainiens. Suggérant que de nombreuses photographies journalistiques qui ont dans certains cas été présentées dans des journaux et des médias du monde entier (généralement associées à des articles généralement positifs sur l’armée ukrainienne) sont simplement « malheureuses » ou trompeuses, le rapport du NYT indique : « Sur chaque photographie, des Ukrainiens en uniforme portaient des écussons avec des symboles qui ont été rendus notoires par l’Allemagne nazie et qui font depuis partie de l’iconographie des groupes haineux d’extrême droite. »
Le rapport admet que cela a conduit à une controverse dans laquelle les salles de presse doivent en fait supprimer certaines photos de soldats et de militants ukrainiens. « Les photographies et leurs suppressions mettent en évidence la relation compliquée de l’armée ukrainienne avec l’imagerie nazie, une relation forgée sous l’occupation soviétique et allemande pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale », poursuit le rapport.
C’est donc simplement « épineux » et « compliqué » nous dit-on. Vous trouverez ci-dessous un petit échantillon des types de patchs qui apparaissent sur les uniformes militaires ukrainiens avec « une certaine régularité » – selon les termes du New York Times :

Même l’Otan a récemment été forcée de supprimer des images sur ses comptes officiels de médias sociaux en raison de la présence de symboles nazis parmi les troupes ukrainiennes lors de séances photo.
La ligne suivante du rapport dit tout ce que vous devez savoir sur le soi-disant « papier officiel » et sa couverture unilatérale et ultra-simpliste tandis que beaucoup se réveillent enfin pour réaliser qu’il s’agit d’une guerre avec une réalité profondément complexe (c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire), et loin du récit hollywoodien des bons contre les méchants des MSM de Putler contre le monde libre qui est typique des réseaux de CNN à Fox en passant par NBC…
Citation de l’article du New York Times :
« En novembre, lors d’une réunion avec des journalistes du Times près de la ligne de front, un attaché de presse ukrainien portait une variante de Totenkopf fabriquée par une société appelée R3ICH (prononcé « Reich »). Il a déclaré qu’il ne croyait pas que le patch était affilié aux nazis. Un deuxième attaché de presse présent a déclaré que d’autres journalistes avaient demandé aux soldats d’enlever le patch avant de prendre des photos ».
Oups !
Et maintenant, nous pouvons nous attendre à des efforts importants pour limiter les dégâts, ou même peut-être assistons-nous aux débuts de l’évolution des définitions et du déplacement des poteaux de but. On cite encore l’article du New York Times :
« Mais certains membres de ces groupes combattent la Russie depuis que le Kremlin a annexé illégalement une partie de la région de Crimée en Ukraine en 2014 et font désormais partie de la structure militaire plus large. Certains sont considérés comme des héros nationaux, alors même que l’extrême droite reste marginalisée politiquement.
L’iconographie de ces groupes, y compris un écusson en forme de tête de mort porté par les gardiens des camps de concentration et un symbole connu sous le nom de Soleil noir, apparaît désormais avec une certaine régularité sur les uniformes des soldats combattant en première ligne, y compris les soldats qui disent que cette imagerie symbolise la souveraineté et la fierté de l’Ukraine, pas le nazisme. »

Ce n’est que très récemment que le ministère ukrainien de la Défense et même le bureau du président Zelensky ont été pris en flagrant délit :
En avril, le ministère ukrainien de la Défense a publié sur son compte Twitter une photo d’un soldat portant un écusson représentant un crâne et des os croisés connu sous le nom de Totenkopf, ou tête de mort. Le symbole spécifique sur l’image a été rendu célèbre par une unité nazie qui a commis des crimes de guerre et gardé des camps de concentration pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
L’écusson sur la photo place le Totenkopf au sommet d’un drapeau ukrainien avec un petit numéro 6 en dessous. Ce patch est le logo officiel de Death in June, un groupe néo-folk britannique qui, selon le Southern Poverty Law Center, produit un « discours de haine » qui « exploite des thèmes et des images du fascisme et du nazisme ».
Comme on pouvait s’y attendre, le Times essaie toujours de se cacher tout en cherchant désespérément à « rassurer » son public en écrivant que « à court terme, cela menace de renforcer la propagande de Poutine et d’alimenter ses fausses affirmations selon lesquelles l’Ukraine doit être » dénazifiée ‘ – une position qui ignore le fait que le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelenskyy est juif. »
De nouveaux niveaux de copulation en effet…
Mais encore, le NYT concède maladroitement : « Plus largement, l’ambivalence de l’Ukraine à propos de ces symboles, et parfois même son acceptation de ceux-ci, risque de donner une nouvelle vie à des icônes que l’Occident a passé plus d’un demi-siècle à essayer d’éliminer. »
Source : ▻https://www.investigaction.net/fr/des-journalistes-demandent-aux-soldats-ukrainiens-de-cacher-leurs-ec
Lien de l’article en anglais :
▻https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/journalists-are-asking-ukrainian-soldiers-hide-their-nazi-patches-nyt-adm
traduction : ▻http://lagazetteducitoyen.over-blog.com/2023/06/des-journalistes-demandent-aux-soldats-ukrainiens-de-c
#ukraine #nazisme #nazis #New_York_Times #NYT #symboles #néo-nazis #guerre
En France, à Lille, fonctionnaire de police avec un tatouage de la valknut, symbole wotaniste, (idéologie identitaire germanique). Des précisions à apporter ?
un effet de #mode sans doutes
▻https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx8hXC4aYAQsisU?format=jpg
Source : ▻https://twitter.com/contactrevol/status/1666087151912775682
La voix du nord a même du en convenir
Le « Russiagate », ce gratte-ciel de la fake news
Extrait de : Un an après l’invasion de l’Ukraine, une débâcle du journalisme. Les médias, avant-garde du parti de la guerre, par Serge Halimi & Pierre Rimbert (Le Monde diplomatique, mars 2023)
▻https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2023/03/HALIMI/65597
À propos de : #Jeff_Gerth, « The press versus the president », Columbia Journalism Review, New York, 30 janvier 2023.
Ex-reporter au New York Times pendant près de trente ans, Gerth vient de publier dans la très respectée #Columbia_Journalism_Review une enquête-fleuve sur la couverture médiatique du « #Russiagate ». Ce gratte-ciel de la fake news dont les principaux architectes furent le #New_York_Times, le #Washington_Post, #CNN et #MSNBC prétendait que, sans la collusion entre M. Trump et M. Poutine, Mme Clinton aurait occupé le bureau Ovale de la Maison Blanche. Las, après deux années d’instruction, le procureur spécial Robert Mueller, pourtant chouchou des démocrates, avait crevé la baudruche et réfuté toute collusion). Le Washington Post dut même corriger plusieurs de ses scoops et effacer de son site les affabulations les plus grotesques.
L’enquête de la Columbia Journalism Review se parcourt comme un musée des erreurs médiatiques : élision des informations non conformes à la thèse des reporters, course concurrentielle au scoop au détriment de la rigueur, travestissement en « #désinformation russe » d’informations vraies mais gênantes pour les démocrates, exposé trompeur de statistiques, usage abusif de sources anonymes (un millier pendant l’ère Trump) vaguement décrites comme « responsable de l’administration », « responsable des renseignements ».
Même lorsque les agences rectifiaient ou démentaient les informations publiées, la presse, agissant en acteur politique autonome, renchérissait à coups de « révélations » frelatées pour maintenir la pression sur la Maison Blanche. Alors que le contre-espionnage s’avoue incapable de mesurer l’effet politique de comptes manipulés par les Russes sur les réseaux sociaux, le New York Times titre sur « Le complot pour subvertir une élection » et avance que ces profils Facebook avaient potentiellement touché « un public total de 126 millions d’Américains ». Gerth note que la moitié de ces personnes avaient été « exposées aux messages » manipulés après l’élection, et que le chiffre en lui-même ne s’apprécie qu’au regard du nombre total d’articles d’actualité postés sur Facebook au cours de la période, soit… 33 000 milliards, ce que le quotidien se gardait de signaler. Une telle omission, estime l’historien Gareth Porter, « devrait concourir dans les annales du journalisme pour le prix de l’utilisation d’une statistique la plus spectaculairement trompeuse de tous les temps ».
Comme pour confirmer ce verdict relatif à la probité de la #presse, les médias mis en cause ont accueilli l’enquête de Gerth par un silence de plomb, sans doute confiants dans le fait que leurs clients préfèrent voir réaffirmées leurs convictions plutôt que d’être déniaisés. Résultat, explique l’auteur, une profession extrêmement influente dans la vie publique n’encourt aucune sanction lorsqu’elle se fourvoie. « Si vous êtes une entreprise privée qui vend des produits défaillants, le consommateur peut réclamer un remboursement, un échange, l’application d’une garantie ou se plaindre auprès d’une agence publique. Mais contre un journalisme de mauvaise qualité, vous ne pouvez que changer de chaîne, adresser un commentaire à une personne anonyme ou jeter votre #journal au panier. »
Le « Russiagate » avait transformé en arme de politique intérieure les questions relatives à une « menace russe » ; les #médias en sortaient déconsidérés. La guerre d’Ukraine leur a permis de recycler leur obsession, cette fois à partir d’une agression réelle et dans un contexte politique plus porteur, puisque les deux partis américains s’accordent pour réclamer que les #États-Unis arment le pays envahi.
How #Climate_Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive - The #New_York_Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/climate/climate-change-cotton-tampons.html
“Climate change is a secret driver of inflation,” said Nicole Corbett, a vice president at NielsenIQ. “As extreme weather continues to impact crops and production capacity, the cost of necessities will continue to rise.”
Maya Mikdashi sur Twitter : ▻https://twitter.com/mayamikdashi/status/1555942630617481217
🧵how the nytimes writes/evaluates #Palestinian & Israeli life differently:
1/"The Palestinian death toll for 2 days of fighting had risen to 15 by Saturday afternoon with 125 injured, according to the Health Ministry in #Gaza. A 5-year-old girl was among those killed on Friday"
2/ “Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Saturday by a mortar shell that fell on an Israeli communal farm near the Gaza border, according to the military”
These sentences are back to back. Palestinian casualties are results of “fighting”, as if they were caught in crossfire
When it comes to Israeli soldiers, there is a weapon (mortar shell) and a place (a farm). There are apparently no soldiers or civilians in the “Palestinian death toll,” nor a location of death. Earlier in the article we are told that “One civilian was lightly injured” in Sderot
Maya Mikdashi sur Twitter : "and today the nytimes calls the Golan Heights “a disputed area”. Interesting way to say “occupied Syrian land illegally annexed by Israel in violation of international law.”" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/mayamikdashi/status/1556267093720539136
شنشون sur Twitter : “In the US media, being in SJP when you were in college will get you fired, but leading a campaign to try to fire Palestinian professors for criticizing Israel when you were in college will get you a cushy job at the #New_York_Times.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/humanprovince/status/1395493609252794372
En réaction aux salades que le #new_york_times essaie de vendre,
Marwan Bishara sur Twitter : “This is a Bullshit! This scenario won’t work! Anyone with basic knowledge of Israeli history and politics knows it’s BS NYTimes ▻https://t.co/kcU4FSKQiN” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/marwanbishara/status/1375103499915161601
David Brooks Resigns From The Aspen Institute
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/times-columnist-david-brooks-told-people-to-join-nextdoor
David Brooks has resigned from his position at the Aspen Institute following reporting by BuzzFeed News about conflicts of interest between the star #New_York_Times columnist and funders of a program he led for the think tank.
Eileen Murphy, a spokesperson for the Times, said in a statement that editors approved Brooks’s involvement with Aspen in 2018, when he launched a project called Weave. But current editors weren’t aware he was receiving a salary for Weave.
“The current Opinion editors were unaware of this arrangement and have concluded that holding a paid position at Weave presents a conflict of interest for David in writing about the work of the project, its donors or the broader issues it focuses on,” Murphy said.
De Matzneff aux attentats : le « New York Times », la France et ses zones d’ombre | Mathieu Deslandes
►https://larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/bureau-new-york-times-paris-enquete-matzneff-attentat
Ils ne sont que cinq, mais ils ont publié quelques unes des meilleures enquêtes parues ces derniers mois sur la société française. Des violences sexuelles à l’onde de choc qui a suivi l’assassinat de Samuel Paty, voici comment travaillent les journalistes du bureau du New York Times à Paris. Source : La revue des médias
Le #new_york_times, #pravda de l’#élite #Davos
Tony Karon sur Twitter : ““Possible Russian interference”? New standards of gutter journalism from nytimes as the Pravda of the Davos class works up its #Sanders smear game ▻https://t.co/LcZkDrZhOx via @NYTimes” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/TonyKaron/status/1231254629469564932
“#liberal”
In Iowa, the ‘Not Sanders’ Democrats Find Voters Torn - The #New_York_Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/iowa-democrats-bernie-sanders.html
Sanders la #menace...
Mr. Sanders is threatening to seize control in the early states, taking narrow but clear polling leads in Iowa and New Hampshire and increasingly menacing Mr. Biden’s advantage in national polls.
Primaire démocrate : le #New_York_Times soutient Warren et Klobuchar
▻https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/202001/20/01-5257515-primaire-democrate-le-new-york-times-soutient-warren-et-klobucha
Il y a décidément une vague sans précédent de #crimes contre la #langue,
Pour justifier cette ambivalence, le prestigieux quotidien explique que les deux approches en compétition parmi les nombreux candidats- celle, « radicale », représentée par Elizabeth Warren ou celle, « réaliste », portée par Amy Klobuchar [...]
[...]
Mme Warren, 70 ans, qui représente l’aile #gauche du parti démocrate, est assez bien placée dans les sondages pour la primaire démocrate, [...] derrière [...] un rival très à gauche, #Bernie_Sanders.
Killer Slime, Dead Birds, an Expunged Map: The Dirty Secrets of #European_Farm_Subsidies - The #New_York_Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/25/world/europe/farms-environment.html
Article eugéniste du journaliste #raciste #Bret_Stephens du #New_York_Times
New York Times Opinion sur Twitter : ""Ashkenazi Jews might have a marginal advantage over their gentile peers when it comes to thinking better. Where their advantage more often lies is in thinking different," says Bret Stephens. ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/opinion/jewish-culture-genius-iq.html" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1210742829095374853
Les réactions à l’article sont par contre très pertinentes,
David Slack sur Twitter : “nytopinion This reasoning relies on the discredited pseudoscience of eugenics — and ideology which caused 70,000 Americans to be forcibly sterilized and led to the Holocaust.
Please fire Bret Stephens immediately.
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/07/469478098/the-supreme-court-ruling-that-led-to-70-000-forced-sterilizations” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/slack2thefuture/status/1210799372654411781
Il y a des domaines où la rigueur n’est pas de rigueur,
#New_York_Times Doesn’t Have Access to Data on Russia’s GDP | Beat the Press | CEPR
▻http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/new-york-times-doesn-t-have-access-to-data-on-russia-s-gdp
That is the inevitable conclusion for readers of a NYT article on Putin and Russia that had the headline, “Russia is a mess. Why is Putin such a formidable enemy.” While the article notes the recent economic stagnation in Russia, it misses the extraordinary turnaround that took place under Putin.
According to I.M.F. data, Russia’s per capita income fell by almost 50 percent between 1990 and 1998.
Source: International Monetary Fund.
This unprecedented peace time collapse took place largely under Boris Yeltsin, who was regarded as a hero by the leaders of both political parties in the United States. In the first decade of Putin’s rule it’s per capita income doubled, which translated into enormous improvements in living standards for most of Russia’s population.
The economic collapse and chaos that preceded Putin’s tenure, and the subsequent reversal in his first ten years in office likely has a lot to do with Putin’s current standing in Russia. It is unfortunate that the NYT apparently does not have access to economic data on Russia.
What the C.I.A.’s #Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured - The #New_York_Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html
Drawings done in captivity by the first prisoner known to undergo “enhanced interrogation” portray his account of what happened to him in vivid and disturbing ways.
Ceci dit, il ne faut pas trop en demander au NYT,
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Those Torture Drawings in the NYT – Consortiumnews
▻https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/12/john-kiriakou-those-torture-drawings-in-the-nyt
With that said, the Times article, although revelatory in terms of Abu Zubaydah’s personal story, was woefully inadequate. It never mentioned, for example, how the Obama administration did literally nothing to make any of this right. Remember former President Barack Obama’s decision to hold no one accountable for the torture program and instead “look forward, not backward?” That didn’t serve #justice. It just protected the torturers and the criminals who supported them. Remember the promise to close #Guantanamo? It never happened.
And what about that Senate torture report? We talk about “the Senate torture report” like we actually know what was in it. We don’t. The 5,500-page report was never released . Instead, after a battle royal with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), Obama finally allowed only a heavily redacted version, less than 700 pages, of the report’s executive summary to see the light of day. And all of that happened after then-CIA Director and Obama loyalist John Brennan ordered #CIA officers to secretly hack into the SSCI’s computer system to see what committee investigators were up to. Of course, no charges for that were ever filed.
The ADL Cannot Lead on Civil Rights
▻https://jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-cannot-lead-on-civil-rights
A laughable panel, titled “What Can Be Done To Reverse Hate in America,” featured New York Times columnist #Bret_Stephens, known for his hateful screeds about “the disease of the Arab mind,” and his colleague Bari Weiss, whose recent book How to Fight Anti-Semitism posits a false equivalence between right-wing white nationalist violence and left-wing criticism of Israel. The panel was moderated by Jodi Rudoren, the Times’s former Jerusalem bureau chief and the new editor-in-chief of the Forward, where she has pledged to support “civil discourse,” yet stands behind an editor’s demonstrably inaccurate accusations of antisemitism at a recent campus protest.
The narrowmindedness and parochialism of the #New_York_Times editorial line, with its reflexive sympathy for Israel and overt contempt for the left, was on full display. Weiss compared anti-Zionist Jews to Stephen Miller, the ferociously anti-immigrant Trump administration official with proven white nationalist ties, saying both are “involved in movements that put the target on the backs of other Jews.” Stephens, unsurprisingly, had no concrete advice for how to reverse hate other than that pro-Israel student activists should quote a Cee Lo Green song from 2010 and tell their BDS-supporting peers “F U.”
“#liberal”
Le #New_York_Times offre courtoisement ses colonnes à l’un des « penseurs » dont les « pensées » ont contribué à mettre le #Proche_Orient à feu et à sang.
Opinion | Undoing Trump’s Syria Blunder - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/opinion/trump-syria-blunder.html
Ben Friedman sur Twitter : “I hope everyone mad about Wolfowitz’s Syria oped in Times is also mad that his views on this and most things are echoed by most of the foreign policy establishment, including allegedly #liberal think tanks, Congress, and Democratic presidential candidates.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/BH_Friedman/status/1197959032608350208
Ben Friedman sur Twitter : “I’m less worried about Wolfowitz’s Times oped than all their “news analysis” reflecting the same worldview and how Brookings and MSNBC foreign policy wonks agree with neocons on everything. Who needs Wolfowitz when Trump is making so many Dems sound like Wolfowitz?” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/BH_Friedman/status/1197964138988871685
Inside Purdue Pharma’s Media Playbook : How It Planted the Opioid “Anti-Story” — ProPublica
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In 2004, Purdue Pharma was facing a threat to sales of its blockbuster opioid painkiller OxyContin, which were approaching $2 billion a year. With abuse of the drug on the rise, prosecutors were bringing criminal charges against some doctors for prescribing massive amounts of OxyContin.
That October, an essay ran across the top of The New York Times’ health section under the headline “Doctors Behind Bars: Treating Pain is Now Risky Business.” Its author, Sally Satel, a psychiatrist, argued that law enforcement was overzealous, and that some patients needed large doses of opioids to relieve pain. She described an unnamed colleague who had run a pain service at a university medical center and had a patient who could only get out of bed by taking “staggering” levels of oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin. She also cited a study published in a medical journal showing that OxyContin is rarely the only drug found in autopsies of oxycodone-related deaths.
“When you scratch the surface of someone who is addicted to painkillers, you usually find a seasoned drug abuser with a previous habit involving pills, alcohol, heroin or cocaine,” Satel wrote. “Contrary to media portrayals, the typical OxyContin addict does not start out as a pain patient who fell unwittingly into a drug habit.”
The Times identified Satel as “a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an unpaid advisory board member for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.” But readers weren’t told about her involvement, and the American Enterprise Institute’s, with Purdue.
Among the connections revealed by emails and documents obtained by ProPublica: Purdue donated $50,000 annually to the institute, which is commonly known as AEI, from 2003 through this year, plus contributions for special events, for a total of more than $800,000. The unnamed doctor in Satel’s article was an employee of Purdue, according to an unpublished draft of the story. The study Satel cited was funded by Purdue and written by Purdue employees and consultants. And, a month before the piece was published, Satel sent a draft to Burt Rosen, Purdue’s Washington lobbyist and vice president of federal policy and legislative affairs, asking him if it “seems imbalanced.”
Purdue’s tactics are reminiscent of the oil and gas industry, which has been accused of promoting misleading science that downplays its impact on climate change, and of big tobacco, which sought to undermine evidence that nicotine is addictive and secondhand smoke is dangerous.
Media spinning was just one prong of Purdue’s strategy to fend off limits on opioid prescribing. It contested hundreds of lawsuits, winning dismissals or settling the cases with a provision that documents remain secret. The company paid leading doctors in the pain field to assure patients that OxyContin was safe. It also funded groups, like the American Pain Foundation, that described themselves as advocates for pain patients. Several of those groups minimized the risk of addiction and fought against efforts to curb opioid use for chronic pain patients.
She has become an influential voice on opioids, addiction and pain treatment. Her writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Atlantic, Slate, Health Affairs, Forbes, Politico and elsewhere. She frequently appears on panels, television shows and in newspaper articles as an expert on the opioid crisis and pain prescribing guidelines. “We’ve entered a new era of opiophobia,” she recently told The Washington Post.
Satel has been a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute since 2000. Among the notable figures who have spent time at AEI are the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. Current fellow Scott Gottlieb returned to AEI this year after serving as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which approves and regulates prescription drugs like OxyContin.
Purdue said its annual payments of $50,000 to AEI were part of the institute’s corporate program. That program offers corporations the opportunity to “gain access to the leading scholars in the most important policy areas for executive briefings and knowledge sharing,” according to the institute’s website.
Purdue’s counterattack against an ambitious investigative series about OxyContin abuse may have contributed to that drop. An October 2003 series in the Orlando Sentinel, “OxyContin Under Fire,” found that Purdue’s aggressive marketing combined with weak regulation had contributed to “a wave of death and destruction.”
The series, however, was marred by several errors that were detailed in a front-page correction nearly four months later. The reporter resigned, and two editors on the series were reassigned. While acknowledging the mistakes, the newspaper did not retract the series, and its review upheld the conclusion that oxycodone was involved in a large number of the overdoses in Florida.
Dezenhall Resources, in an email, took credit for forcing the newspaper to issue the corrections. “Dezenhall’s efforts resulted in a complete front-page retraction of the erroneous 5-day, 19-part, front-page Orlando Sentinel series,” Hershow wrote in a 2006 email summarizing Dezenhall’s work for Purdue under the subject line “Success in Fighting Negative Coverage.”
Purdue officials and the company’s public relations agencies came up with a 13-point plan to generate media coverage of the errors. It included getting a doctor to talk about how the series “frightened and mislead (sic) the people of Florida” and having a pain patient write a newspaper opinion column on the subject. The Sentinel series, one Purdue official wrote to other company executives and Dezenhall’s Hershow, was an opportunity to let the country know about “all of the sensational reporting on OxyContin abuse over the past 4 years. The conclusion: this is the most overblown health story in the last decade!”
In the six years after Purdue challenged the Sentinel’s findings, the death rate from prescription drugs increased 84.2% in Florida. The biggest rise, 264.6%, came from deaths involving oxycodone. The state became a hotbed for inappropriate opioid prescribing as unscrupulous pain clinics attracted out of state drug seekers. The route traveled by many from small towns in Appalachia to the Florida clinics was nicknamed the “Oxycontin Express.”
In 2017, 14 years after the Sentinel series was published, the Columbia Journalism Review described it as “right too soon” and said it “eerily prefigured today’s opioid epidemic.”
Purdue also added Stu Loeser to its stable. The head of an eponymous media strategy company, Loeser was press secretary for Michael Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York City, and he is now a spokesman for Bloomberg’s possible presidential bid.
Soon after Loeser began representing Purdue, Satel wrote in a 2018 piece for Politico headlined, “The Myth of What’s Driving the Opioid Crisis,” about “a false narrative” that the opioid epidemic “is driven by patients becoming addicted to doctor-prescribed opioids.”
Loeser told Purdue executives in an email that “we are going to work with AEI to ‘promote’ this so it comes across as what it is: their thoughtful response to other writing.” His team was working to target the Satel story “to land in social media feeds of people who have searched for opioid issues and potentially even people who have read specific stories online,” he added.
Loeser said in an interview that he didn’t end up working with AEI to promote the story. He said Purdue is no longer a client.
Une belle bande d’ordures accoquinée avec une brochette de journaux peu regardants (quoique parmi les meilleurs du monde, ce qui est encore plus inquiétant).
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