I wonder whether the New York TimesMike Rappaport

would even deny this charge from Michael Barone.

Comments

[Matt]

This guy is comparing apples to oranges.

[Adam Mossoff]

Thanks for the head's up on the Barone article, Mike. I liked the comparison so much that I posted it to my FB page with a hat tip to you for alerting me to it.

[Dan Simon]

James Fallows' 1996 article, "Why Americans Hate the Media", describes a famous incident in the late 1980s in which Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace appeared on a PBS show about the ethical dilemmas of war. They were presented with a hypothetical in which they were traveling with an army unit of a country called "North Kosan", which was at war with "South Kosan", an American ally being defended by US troops. They were both asked what they would do if the unit they were observing began laying an ambush for an approaching unit of US soldiers. After some discussion, they ended up agreeing that their higher duty was to report the story, not to protect the lives of American soldiers.

It was apparently never even considered that by "embedding" themselves with an enemy army unit, they were already disavowing all loyalty to country. Nor was it asked what they would have done if their host army unit had been busy ambushing fellow journalists, let alone friends or family members--presumably because the answer was obvious. The answer to Barone's question, "Whose side is the New York Times on?", has long been clear: first and foremost and pretty much exclusively--their own.

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