The NYT takes on the NYT

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Originally Posted by RDaneel54

It took being on the inside of a "news" report by CBS 60 minutes for me to really understand how any news organization can slant what is presented. At the time, I was working for the U.S. Dept of Defense and actually new what was really going on. CBS wanted to pound their particular drum in the story so that is what got reported.

That event gave me a new level of distrust of any news source. Not that what they did is anything new. Slanted and biased news has been with us throughout history. And there are always those who trust a particular news source to give the straight and unvarnished truth.

The NYT does a lot of good reporting; it also does bad, lazy and slanted reporting.

When it comes to news, keep the rose colored glasses in their case.

Yep, and it goes along with the saying that "history is written by the victor." We hear about how bad this person or that one back in history was and how someone had to stop them from doing what they were doing, but certainly any history is going to paint the winner in a far better light than the loser will receive.