Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020

Re:Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 by reactspa on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:15PM (#25512997)

While we're on the topic, let's take a moment to remind ourselves that New York Times journalists are directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians (mostly women and children) in Iraq, Syria, Libya.

Judith Miller won a Pulitzer for reporting that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction".

Also, here's a fun activity. Go to the NYT website, and search "nicholas kristof libya". He promoted US support of regime-change of Libya in several articles before the US decided to give air-cover to the rebels. Then the entire country fell apart and millions of refugees went elsewhere (including all the way to Europe), and since then he never once (not once) mentioned Libya again.

P.S.: What's going on in Libya now that Nicholas Kristof got his regime-change? Selling of slaves in open markets: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/21/595497429/...

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Re:Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 by mhh__ on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:59PM (#25513591)

"directly responsible" implies they made the decision.

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Re:Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 by boomboomsubban on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:13PM (#25513674)

Not solely responsible does not mean they weren't directly responsible. The people that did "make the decision" used the story to justify their decisions.

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Re:Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 by gnusty_gnurc on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:53PM (#25513246)

And even historically can’t talk about NYT without Walter Duranty, the Stalin apologist and Holodomor denier.

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