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November 23, 2005
The NY Times and Iraq
Marc Schulman is demonstrating a point I've long held: the NY Times opinion page is nothing more or less than a mouthpiece for the American progressive movement. I suspect that this traces back to long, long before Viet Nam, even, back to the late 1800s. There's nothing wrong with that, but it does kind of put the lie to statements often heard from the Left that the media is basically conservative. In any case, I'd love to see this analysis expanded to cover other issues that are very dependent, in policy terms, on which party holds power at any given time. I suspect that you would find, for example, that the Times is relatively hard-line on the Iranian theocrats when Carter is in power and when Clinton is in power, and not so much when Reagan or either Bush is in power.
UPDATE: Part 2 is here.
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An excellent idea, Jeff. The problem is that members of Times Select (like me) are limited to 100 free article downloads per month (it's $3.95 per article after that). So it would probably take several months to accumulate all the pertinent editorials on Iran, as it has on Iraq (and I won't be able to download post-invasion articles on Iraq until December 19).
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at November 23, 2005 5:59 PM