This will be an easy blog to write. Because I am doing little other than showing you the following link to Clay Waters’ article at newsbusters.org, titled “One-Sided NY Times Whitewashes Pro-Hamas Campus Protesters, Omits Threats”
Here is how it begins:
New York Times reporter Anemona Hartocollis blamed Republicans for the supposed suppression of free speech on campus lately – as in, why aren’t pro-Hamas campus activists able to disrupt classes, occupy buildings, and harass Jewish students — in Tuesday’s “What Happened to Campus Activism Against the War in Gaza?”
The war in Gaza was started by Hamas when they invaded Israel and killed or kidnapped over 1,000 Israeli civilians. But there was no attempt at balance. The only quoted material came in support of the pro-Hamas campus activists, with no dissenters from the one-sided tone.
You’ve got the link and you can read the rest. If you do, you’ll find that Mr. Waters’ is dead-on correct in his assessment of this hit piece posing as journalism.
The best (and only positive) thing I can say about today’s New York Times is that I enjoy doing its crossword puzzle. From a news/analysis standpoint, it has descended to the point where it is, literally, scraping the bottom of the barrel. But, based on recent history, if there is a way to go even lower, The Times will find it.
What a sad shadow of what once was a respected news source.
