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> The actual press, WaPo, NyTimes (which does great docs, so does Vice imho) have rigid editorial process. That hasn't stopped them from publishing complete bu
by speedybird 5y ago
> The actual press, WaPo, NyTimes (which does great docs, so does Vice imho) have rigid editorial process.
That hasn't stopped them from publishing complete bullshit to start wars and similarly abominable shit. The New York Times allowed Judith Miller to uncritically publish flagrant government lies to start the Second Iraq War. In the leadup to the First Iraq War, ABC and NBC published atrocity propaganda (the "Nayirah testimony") for the American government. In the 20th century, the New York Times let Walter Duranty publish Stalinist propaganda denying genocidal oppression and famine in Ukraine. In the late 19th century, a bunch of American newspapers were used to start a bullshit war with Spain.