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How To Reverse 'Times' Path To Destruction
The Advocate
By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin
I’m so overwhelmed with compassion as I witness newspapers like the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer in bankruptcy and hovering on the brink of extinction that I’ve come up with some ideas to save them. I’ll focus on the New York Times, as it is sets the agenda for the dishonest, fraudulent and biased reporting of the mainstream media. Here are new ways to market the Times and perhaps save it:
1. I’ve noticed the Times’ editorials are not only consistently wrong in their conclusions but also totally flawed in their reasoning. Therefore, they can advertise as a convenient shorthand route to correct decisions on major public policy issues — take the Times recommendations and do the opposite. If you want the right defense policy, for example, just read The Times’ editorials and do the opposite. If they want to cut the defense budget, for example, that means you should raise it. If they want to stop the development of a weapons system, that should be an urgent call to continue development.
2. Of course, The Times echoes the propaganda line of the Obama administration to a “T.” So it can be used to largely supplant the publications of the Democratic National Committee and other party organs. Read the Times for the complete Obama and Democratic Party line. The present Times motto ought to go, which is “All the news that’s fit to print.” A new motto might be, “All the news that fits the bias,” or “All the bias that’s fit to print.” The Times should be able to get a payment from the Democratic Party organizations for doing its work.
3. The Times can also seek compensation from the terrorist organizations throughout the world, as the Times consistently tries to sanitize, euphemize, and humanize their bloodthirsty program, even refraining from calling them terrorists. Organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah raise big money and there is no reason they can’t pay the Times for its work. In addition, the Times, like the ACLU, seems to oppose almost every attempt to fight terrorism, so that’s another basis for compensation.
4. The Times is also entitled to compensation from all of the Axis of Evil and the other enemies of America. The Times does its work by its consistently anti-America blame-America-first bias and by its anti-military bias. At a minimum, the Times has earned a substantial monthly payment from North Korea, Syria, and Iran.
5. Every school should have access to the Times so they can teach students how to detect media bias and other media malpractice. The Times presen ts new ways to twist the truth and falsify the news so it provides invaluable teaching materials every day.
6. Long ago, out of respect to dead fish, which deserve more respect and consideration than the Times, I’ve stopped recommending using The Times for wrapping fish.
Now there are Web sites that focus on the journalistic misadventures of the Times, and they also provide a steady supply of teaching materials, documenting the Times latest journalistic fiascos and disgraces. One such Web site is www.boycott.nyt.com sponsored by one of the leading media watchdogs, Accuracy in Media. I’d recommend following the site to keep up to date on the latest Times’ outrages. While you’re at the site, sign its petition calling for a boycott of the New York Times. Here are some of the latest follies from the New York Times, as reported by the editor of that site, Don Feder.
‘Times’ Praises Obama’s Korean Surrender
President Obama made his bold pronouncement after the launch of a missile by North Korea: “Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response.”
What was the strong response and certain punishment? It was a call for the United Nations to take action. That is so ridiculous it is pathetic. The U.N. had years ago passed a resolution forbidding the launch of a missile by North Korea. That resolution was ignored. So going back for another resolution that would be ignored was pathetic, silly, ridiculous and any other such adjective you want to attach. But there is a lesson there. It shows that President Obama and his administration thinks the American people are idiots. They know the U.N. is a joke when it comes to taking such action. It also shows again Mr. Obama’s infection by the talking disease — thinking talking and pronouncements can take the place of reality and action. And it also shows his infection with the campaign disease – acting like he is still campaigning and forgetting that he is now governing.
What else did he do to respond to this threat of North Korean nuclear weapons hitting our allies such as Japan and even the U.S.? He announced he is cutting back on missile defense. This is precisely the opposite of what is obviously called for. The North Korean-Iranian axis threatens the world with missiles and nuclear weapons and we cut back on the most important defensive measure we could take. This is so bizarre and stupid that you have to start thinking that liberalism is truly a mental disease. What else did our “bold and decisive leader” do, a question raised by Don Feder in his excellent piece. He “laid out a new approach” to American nuclear disarmament policy – one intended to strengthen the United States and its allies in halting proliferation.” The Obama plan calls for unilateral nuclear disar mament by the U.S. and ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Feder writes, “In other words, if the United States voluntarily reduces its stockpile and limits its own weapons development, that will somehow convince our ‘reluctant allies’ to begin enforcing sanctions against North Korea and Iran. This The Times reported with a straight face.”
Mr. Obama apparently thinks by cutting our own nuclear program the Europeans will suddenly realize they should get involved in stopping nuclear proliferation and do something about the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. Our President doesn’t realize that Europe is hopelessly pacifist and like him, will only talk, and not take any real action to stop evil in its tracks. Feder correctly calls this view of Europe “a laughable premise.” This example shows how the Times tries to transform a fool of a president into a tough, innovative, dynamic leader. The Times reporting is so far from reality that it goes beyond its usual bias and dishonesty. It perhaps now can best be described as fiction … and bad fiction at that.
‘Times’ Offers Advice To Israel That Sounds Like It Comes Directly From Hamas
A New York Times editorial (March 27, 2009) gives such bad advice to Israel that it could be run in Mad Magazine or the Harvard Lampoon as a parody. It is almost too ridiculous even for the New York Times.
The Times says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must do something to earn the=2 0“trust” of the Palestinians. What makes that statement so remarkable is what the Times did not say about “trust.” Mr. Feder writes, “Of course, The Times couldn’t imagine the need for the Palestinians to do anything to earn Israel’s trust – like not firing rockets at Israel settlements, ceasing collusion with Iran and Syria, not calling for the destruction of Israel or ending anti-Semitic agitation in its media.” But this is typical of The Times news and editorial content. It’s all Israel’s fault and it’s all Israel’s responsibility. The Palestinians are simply angelic characters waiting for Israel to want peace.
Israel, says The Times, needs to make concrete moves to demonstrate its sincerity. Again, the Palestinians can keep firing rockets and calling for Israel’s extermination, but their sincerity is not in question and they need make no moves. But it gets worse. Consider the suggestions for concrete moves by Israel, as described by Mr. Feder:
“1. Freezing what is called ‘Jewish settlements’ on the West Bank.
2. lifting roadblocks between Palestinian cities ‘not needed for security’ (the paper supposes many of them are there for the fun).
3. doing nothing to impede the formation of a Hamas/Fatah coalition government, and
4. recognize that the United States has its own interests in diplomacy with Syria, Iran and the Palestinians. In other words, don’t complain when the Obama administration stands idly by while terror states acquire nuclear weapons.”
Mr. Feder concludes, “Is the Times sure it wouldn’t also like Netanyahu to change Israel’s flag from a Star of David to a crescent, and erect a memorial to Yasser Arafat in Tel Aviv?
“Even for the most reality deficient newspaper in America, it’s astounding that after a decade of suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and support for Saddam Hussein, Bashar Assad and Iran, The Times still thinks the Palestinians are interested in peace with Israel – at any time and under any conditions.
“Netanyahu should take advice from Ramallah, Damascus or Tehran before he listens to The New York Times regarding the so-called peace process.”
‘The Times’ Is A Whirling Dervish In Covering Obama In Turkey
The Times covered Mr. Obama in Turkey as a rock star, not as a president and leader of the free world. The Times noted with great satisfaction that Obama was “showing more self-confidence each day on his maiden oversea trip to Europe.” Then his statement he once lived in a Muslim country was a “bold one.” It also viewed as evidence of raw presidential courage that the president used his full name — Barack Hussein Obama.
When Mr. Obama’s middle name was mentioned in the campaign that was “bigotry.” But when Obama menti ons his middle name in Turkey it was thrilling to The Times. To protect the Obama administration from criticism, the Times did not mention one of the most controversial Mr. Obama lines: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
The president may not be aware of it, but the values of America and those of our Founders came from the Bible and the Judeo-Christian tradition. Our values were not magically extracted from the colonial air. What’s more, than and now Americans were predominantly Christians. Finally, even now 62 percent of Americans consider themselves to be Christians. That’s from a Newsweek poll.
Mr. Feder concludes, “In coverage of his whirlwind ‘America sucks’ tour, The Times also ignored from-the-waist bow to the King of Saudi Arabia – the first time a sitting president has ever bowed to a foreign ruler. The Times would prefer we didn’t know about this obscene obeisance to a medieval monarch.
“The New York Times doesn’t just spin the news of Obama, it whips it around like a whirling dervish.”
There’s another important lesson from the bowing to the King incident. The White House tried to lie out of it by claiming he was simply shaking hands with the shorter King. First of all, the King isn’t that much shorter tha n Obama. Second, to bow that low he’d have to be shaking hands with a three-year old. He didn’t bow to the Queen of England, and she’s shorter than King Abdullah. It was clearly a bow, but the Obama administration thinks we’re all stupid. Otherwise, there would have come up with a more believable lie or perhaps as a last resort even told the truth. Maybe the real moral of the story is that Barack “Teleprompter” Obama needs a teleprompter even when shaking hands. The teleprompter could send the message, “The President of the United States isn’t supposed to bow or grovel to a king of anyone else.”
The New York Times is so incredibly productive when it comes to producing biased, dishonest, and fraudulent journalism that even www.boycottnyt.com can’t keep up with all of even their totally outrageous production. Other good sources on media bias, including that of the New York Times are the Media Research Center, www.mrc.com; newsbusters.com; www.camera.org; and www.honestreporting.com
As an example of one of the more outrageous Times’ pieces that didn’t make the cut at www.boycottnyt.com, consider this journalistic monstrosity reported on by the Times. The Times did a front-page story, with two follow-up pieces repeating all kinds of allegations from questionable sources involving the Israeli Defense forces. This was outrageous on multiple counts, Camera reports:
• “Even before the New York Times published its three pieces about allegations of Israeli misconduct, those charges had been substantially discredited. Israel’s Channel 2 television station reported that the sure of one of the allegations admitted his story had been based on rumors. Yet none of the three Times articles mentioned this key point. On the contrary, they wrongly described the allegations as ‘testimony,’ ‘revelations’ and ‘eyewitness accounts.’
• “It took more than a week for the Times to finally reveal, in a fourth article, that the core of what it reported in the three earlier pieces was nothing more than hearsay, and that Israeli investigators believe the charges are almost certainly false. But the Damage was already done. The trigger-happy The New York Times splashed dubious rumors on its front page, and in doing so caused irreversible harm not only to Israel’s reputation, but also to the truth. (The newspaper’s ‘retraction’ – which was not described as a retraction – was published on page four.)”
Stories like that prove that The Times has no respect for the truth, is journalistically and ethically bankrupt, and should be viewed and treated as a psychopathic criminal at lose on the streets, a mad dog of journalism. The Times should be boycotted and condemned in every legal way. The damage it does to America and the world is incalculable but massive beyond imagination.
Accuracy in Media, www.boycottnyt.com, and Don Feder are=2 0doing a great public service by showing how the Times totally distorts the news and produces news and editorials that are little more than fiction designed to sell the far-left liberal agenda of The Times. And equally important, they are showing some practical ways to do something about it. If the public doesn’t get a full picture of what’s going on from other media sources, we’ll literally let the Obama administration destroy us.
He’s on his way to a foreign policy that will embolden our enemies and his domestic policy will wreck our economy and make us vulnerable to the onslaught of terrorists and to being undermined by the stealth jihad. We better get informed, organized, and tough, or we will be destroyed by a combination of the Obama administration and the Islamofascists and jihadists. We’re already well down the path to the destruction so we should respond as we’re in a life and death battle to preserve American values and the U.S. Constitution. The Obama process can be reversed but it’s later than you think.
Herb Denenberg is a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and professor at the Wharton School. He is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and consumer advocate. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences. His column appears daily in The Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@thebulletin.us.
1. I’ve noticed the Times’ editorials are not only consistently wrong in their conclusions but also totally flawed in their reasoning. Therefore, they can advertise as a convenient shorthand route to correct decisions on major public policy issues — take the Times recommendations and do the opposite. If you want the right defense policy, for example, just read The Times’ editorials and do the opposite. If they want to cut the defense budget, for example, that means you should raise it. If they want to stop the development of a weapons system, that should be an urgent call to continue development.
2. Of course, The Times echoes the propaganda line of the Obama administration to a “T.” So it can be used to largely supplant the publications of the Democratic National Committee and other party organs. Read the Times for the complete Obama and Democratic Party line. The present Times motto ought to go, which is “All the news that’s fit to print.” A new motto might be, “All the news that fits the bias,” or “All the bias that’s fit to print.” The Times should be able to get a payment from the Democratic Party organizations for doing its work.
3. The Times can also seek compensation from the terrorist organizations throughout the world, as the Times consistently tries to sanitize, euphemize, and humanize their bloodthirsty program, even refraining from calling them terrorists. Organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah raise big money and there is no reason they can’t pay the Times for its work. In addition, the Times, like the ACLU, seems to oppose almost every attempt to fight terrorism, so that’s another basis for compensation.
4. The Times is also entitled to compensation from all of the Axis of Evil and the other enemies of America. The Times does its work by its consistently anti-America blame-America-first bias and by its anti-military bias. At a minimum, the Times has earned a substantial monthly payment from North Korea, Syria, and Iran.
5. Every school should have access to the Times so they can teach students how to detect media bias and other media malpractice. The Times presen ts new ways to twist the truth and falsify the news so it provides invaluable teaching materials every day.
6. Long ago, out of respect to dead fish, which deserve more respect and consideration than the Times, I’ve stopped recommending using The Times for wrapping fish.
Now there are Web sites that focus on the journalistic misadventures of the Times, and they also provide a steady supply of teaching materials, documenting the Times latest journalistic fiascos and disgraces. One such Web site is www.boycott.nyt.com sponsored by one of the leading media watchdogs, Accuracy in Media. I’d recommend following the site to keep up to date on the latest Times’ outrages. While you’re at the site, sign its petition calling for a boycott of the New York Times. Here are some of the latest follies from the New York Times, as reported by the editor of that site, Don Feder.
‘Times’ Praises Obama’s Korean Surrender
President Obama made his bold pronouncement after the launch of a missile by North Korea: “Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response.”
What was the strong response and certain punishment? It was a call for the United Nations to take action. That is so ridiculous it is pathetic. The U.N. had years ago passed a resolution forbidding the launch of a missile by North Korea. That resolution was ignored. So going back for another resolution that would be ignored was pathetic, silly, ridiculous and any other such adjective you want to attach. But there is a lesson there. It shows that President Obama and his administration thinks the American people are idiots. They know the U.N. is a joke when it comes to taking such action. It also shows again Mr. Obama’s infection by the talking disease — thinking talking and pronouncements can take the place of reality and action. And it also shows his infection with the campaign disease – acting like he is still campaigning and forgetting that he is now governing.
What else did he do to respond to this threat of North Korean nuclear weapons hitting our allies such as Japan and even the U.S.? He announced he is cutting back on missile defense. This is precisely the opposite of what is obviously called for. The North Korean-Iranian axis threatens the world with missiles and nuclear weapons and we cut back on the most important defensive measure we could take. This is so bizarre and stupid that you have to start thinking that liberalism is truly a mental disease. What else did our “bold and decisive leader” do, a question raised by Don Feder in his excellent piece. He “laid out a new approach” to American nuclear disarmament policy – one intended to strengthen the United States and its allies in halting proliferation.” The Obama plan calls for unilateral nuclear disar mament by the U.S. and ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Feder writes, “In other words, if the United States voluntarily reduces its stockpile and limits its own weapons development, that will somehow convince our ‘reluctant allies’ to begin enforcing sanctions against North Korea and Iran. This The Times reported with a straight face.”
Mr. Obama apparently thinks by cutting our own nuclear program the Europeans will suddenly realize they should get involved in stopping nuclear proliferation and do something about the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. Our President doesn’t realize that Europe is hopelessly pacifist and like him, will only talk, and not take any real action to stop evil in its tracks. Feder correctly calls this view of Europe “a laughable premise.” This example shows how the Times tries to transform a fool of a president into a tough, innovative, dynamic leader. The Times reporting is so far from reality that it goes beyond its usual bias and dishonesty. It perhaps now can best be described as fiction … and bad fiction at that.
‘Times’ Offers Advice To Israel That Sounds Like It Comes Directly From Hamas
A New York Times editorial (March 27, 2009) gives such bad advice to Israel that it could be run in Mad Magazine or the Harvard Lampoon as a parody. It is almost too ridiculous even for the New York Times.
The Times says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must do something to earn the=2 0“trust” of the Palestinians. What makes that statement so remarkable is what the Times did not say about “trust.” Mr. Feder writes, “Of course, The Times couldn’t imagine the need for the Palestinians to do anything to earn Israel’s trust – like not firing rockets at Israel settlements, ceasing collusion with Iran and Syria, not calling for the destruction of Israel or ending anti-Semitic agitation in its media.” But this is typical of The Times news and editorial content. It’s all Israel’s fault and it’s all Israel’s responsibility. The Palestinians are simply angelic characters waiting for Israel to want peace.
Israel, says The Times, needs to make concrete moves to demonstrate its sincerity. Again, the Palestinians can keep firing rockets and calling for Israel’s extermination, but their sincerity is not in question and they need make no moves. But it gets worse. Consider the suggestions for concrete moves by Israel, as described by Mr. Feder:
“1. Freezing what is called ‘Jewish settlements’ on the West Bank.
2. lifting roadblocks between Palestinian cities ‘not needed for security’ (the paper supposes many of them are there for the fun).
3. doing nothing to impede the formation of a Hamas/Fatah coalition government, and
4. recognize that the United States has its own interests in diplomacy with Syria, Iran and the Palestinians. In other words, don’t complain when the Obama administration stands idly by while terror states acquire nuclear weapons.”
Mr. Feder concludes, “Is the Times sure it wouldn’t also like Netanyahu to change Israel’s flag from a Star of David to a crescent, and erect a memorial to Yasser Arafat in Tel Aviv?
“Even for the most reality deficient newspaper in America, it’s astounding that after a decade of suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and support for Saddam Hussein, Bashar Assad and Iran, The Times still thinks the Palestinians are interested in peace with Israel – at any time and under any conditions.
“Netanyahu should take advice from Ramallah, Damascus or Tehran before he listens to The New York Times regarding the so-called peace process.”
‘The Times’ Is A Whirling Dervish In Covering Obama In Turkey
The Times covered Mr. Obama in Turkey as a rock star, not as a president and leader of the free world. The Times noted with great satisfaction that Obama was “showing more self-confidence each day on his maiden oversea trip to Europe.” Then his statement he once lived in a Muslim country was a “bold one.” It also viewed as evidence of raw presidential courage that the president used his full name — Barack Hussein Obama.
When Mr. Obama’s middle name was mentioned in the campaign that was “bigotry.” But when Obama menti ons his middle name in Turkey it was thrilling to The Times. To protect the Obama administration from criticism, the Times did not mention one of the most controversial Mr. Obama lines: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
The president may not be aware of it, but the values of America and those of our Founders came from the Bible and the Judeo-Christian tradition. Our values were not magically extracted from the colonial air. What’s more, than and now Americans were predominantly Christians. Finally, even now 62 percent of Americans consider themselves to be Christians. That’s from a Newsweek poll.
Mr. Feder concludes, “In coverage of his whirlwind ‘America sucks’ tour, The Times also ignored from-the-waist bow to the King of Saudi Arabia – the first time a sitting president has ever bowed to a foreign ruler. The Times would prefer we didn’t know about this obscene obeisance to a medieval monarch.
“The New York Times doesn’t just spin the news of Obama, it whips it around like a whirling dervish.”
There’s another important lesson from the bowing to the King incident. The White House tried to lie out of it by claiming he was simply shaking hands with the shorter King. First of all, the King isn’t that much shorter tha n Obama. Second, to bow that low he’d have to be shaking hands with a three-year old. He didn’t bow to the Queen of England, and she’s shorter than King Abdullah. It was clearly a bow, but the Obama administration thinks we’re all stupid. Otherwise, there would have come up with a more believable lie or perhaps as a last resort even told the truth. Maybe the real moral of the story is that Barack “Teleprompter” Obama needs a teleprompter even when shaking hands. The teleprompter could send the message, “The President of the United States isn’t supposed to bow or grovel to a king of anyone else.”
The New York Times is so incredibly productive when it comes to producing biased, dishonest, and fraudulent journalism that even www.boycottnyt.com can’t keep up with all of even their totally outrageous production. Other good sources on media bias, including that of the New York Times are the Media Research Center, www.mrc.com; newsbusters.com; www.camera.org; and www.honestreporting.com
As an example of one of the more outrageous Times’ pieces that didn’t make the cut at www.boycottnyt.com, consider this journalistic monstrosity reported on by the Times. The Times did a front-page story, with two follow-up pieces repeating all kinds of allegations from questionable sources involving the Israeli Defense forces. This was outrageous on multiple counts, Camera reports:
• “Even before the New York Times published its three pieces about allegations of Israeli misconduct, those charges had been substantially discredited. Israel’s Channel 2 television station reported that the sure of one of the allegations admitted his story had been based on rumors. Yet none of the three Times articles mentioned this key point. On the contrary, they wrongly described the allegations as ‘testimony,’ ‘revelations’ and ‘eyewitness accounts.’
• “It took more than a week for the Times to finally reveal, in a fourth article, that the core of what it reported in the three earlier pieces was nothing more than hearsay, and that Israeli investigators believe the charges are almost certainly false. But the Damage was already done. The trigger-happy The New York Times splashed dubious rumors on its front page, and in doing so caused irreversible harm not only to Israel’s reputation, but also to the truth. (The newspaper’s ‘retraction’ – which was not described as a retraction – was published on page four.)”
Stories like that prove that The Times has no respect for the truth, is journalistically and ethically bankrupt, and should be viewed and treated as a psychopathic criminal at lose on the streets, a mad dog of journalism. The Times should be boycotted and condemned in every legal way. The damage it does to America and the world is incalculable but massive beyond imagination.
Accuracy in Media, www.boycottnyt.com, and Don Feder are=2 0doing a great public service by showing how the Times totally distorts the news and produces news and editorials that are little more than fiction designed to sell the far-left liberal agenda of The Times. And equally important, they are showing some practical ways to do something about it. If the public doesn’t get a full picture of what’s going on from other media sources, we’ll literally let the Obama administration destroy us.
He’s on his way to a foreign policy that will embolden our enemies and his domestic policy will wreck our economy and make us vulnerable to the onslaught of terrorists and to being undermined by the stealth jihad. We better get informed, organized, and tough, or we will be destroyed by a combination of the Obama administration and the Islamofascists and jihadists. We’re already well down the path to the destruction so we should respond as we’re in a life and death battle to preserve American values and the U.S. Constitution. The Obama process can be reversed but it’s later than you think.
Herb Denenberg is a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and professor at the Wharton School. He is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and consumer advocate. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences. His column appears daily in The Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@thebulletin.us.
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