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There's a lot of focus on recent events, but surely I'm not the only one that remembers when the New York Times almost singlehandedly started the Iraq War based
by chroem- 6y ago
There's a lot of focus on recent events, but surely I'm not the only one that remembers when the New York Times almost singlehandedly started the Iraq War based on false reporting, right?
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoI think your example helps illustrate how ineptitude is the problem that bias is perceived to be.
- pessimizer 6y agoThe NYT's involvement in the Iraq War was not ineptitude, but the intentional passing on of administration claims not only without criticism, but while also excluding and attacking critical voices as borderline seditious. It was also editorially consistent with the NYT's positions before and after the fact. Painting Judith Miller and her coworkers as a hapless accident is defaulting to excusing an outlet you identify with. The NYT was not doing good, badly. The NYT was doing bad, knowingly.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago> the intentional passing on of administration claims not only without criticism This is ineptitude. > excluding and attacking critical voices as borderline seditious This is also ineptitude.
- anigbrowl 6y agoMost people read ineptitude to mean lack of capacity/skill rather than cynicism. If you knowingly do something that leads to a (generally) unwanted result, that's quite different from wanting to do something else but clumsily failing.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago> Most people read ineptitude to mean lack of capacity/skill That's good because that's what it means.
- anigbrowl 6y agoThat makes your previous comment nonsensical. Are you just here to troll?
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoNot at all. My post history reflects my intent. My use of inept is the conventional one. eg: Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy.
- anigbrowl 6y agoSeems like you're stuck on this word and not able to make it any farther. Alas, I can't wait for you.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoRereading your own posts will reveal how that word persisted at your invitation.
- anigbrowl 6y agoNothing prevented you addressing the rest of the comment. Seems you are just here to troll after all. Bye.
- yeuxardents 6y agoThe NYT also had information on what Snowden leaked about NSA activities as far back as 2005, but declined to publish any of it.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoThis is a pretty solid example. Edward Snowden dragged the US press into reporting on US Gov's surveillance misdeeds. Before, revelations like those from Mark Klein got a huge yawn from the entirety of the US Press Corps. The most likely reasons for news orgs refuse to publish damning evidence about US Gov malfeasance are collusion and/or ineptitude. I feel that showing unearned deference to US NatSec state implies the latter.