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There must be subtext here that I don't understand.

• fatbird 9y ago
  The NYT was one of the chief cheerleaders for the Iraq War, both through Judith Miller being an outright mouthpiece for Bush administration propaganda, and more generally through being a friendly media outlet of "balanced" thinkpieces that set the stage for popular support for a non-declaration-of-war (the AUMF) that allowed Bush to invade Iraq based on some nebulous threat of a WMD attack in the U.S. that was never real.
  • 3131s 9y ago
    They also had an editorial policy of not referring to any action committed by US forces as "torture" until 2014.