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I can't say if the NYT are villains or not, but if they are, you might have better luck convincing people if your only data point wasn't from literally decades
by ______-_-______ 5y ago
I can't say if the NYT are villains or not, but if they are, you might have better luck convincing people if your only data point wasn't from literally decades ago
- willcipriano 5y agoTo be fair the war lasted up until a couple of months ago.
- mint2 5y agoAfghanistan and Iraq are different btw.
- willcipriano 5y agoThe war on terror encompasses both Iraq and Afghanistan.
- mardifoufs 5y agoThe NYT helped push both wars.
- munk-a 5y agoIn defense of that point - it is probably fair to blame that missreporting for thousands of deaths - not all the deaths of the Iraq War, but a big chunk of them. Don't forget that contemporarily you had an immense amount of well founded skepticism about the true cause of the war which turned out to be quite accurate in retrospect but was decried as unpatriotic at the time. The Iraq War is the first time I personally experience news comedy being a more reliable source than traditional media. In defense of the NYT, vetting sources is hard and they publish a whole lot of good content.
- mardifoufs 5y agoToo bad the consequences of that "data point" are still so profound that people are still dying daily in that region directly because of that war. When do you think we can just forget about the kind of war mongering the NYT pushed ? Has the NYT changed anything concretely since then? Because going by the way they still seem completely addicted to "anonymous sources in the intelligence community" it sure doesn't seem like they have learnt their lesson.