PART 7, AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS AND JOURNALISTS--TWO ITEMS: THE NYTIMES ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH OVER JOURNALISTIC ETHICS--AND THE INTERCEPT'S GREENWALD RESIGNS OVER CENSORSHIP

1) NEW YORK TIMES ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH OVER JOURNALISTIC ETHICS--ANALYSIS/OPINION:

In the late first century after the birth of Christ, the Roman poet Juvenal asked a simple question: “Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?” Who will guard the guardians themselves?

Juvenal was talking about sexual fidelity, but in our intellectually desiccated era, the question is most often applied to governments.

However, it should most reasonably apply to those who identify themselves as the guardians of the public good in our society — the free media. Is the media the “enemy of the people” as some have claimed? They are not.
 
But neither are they the tribunes of civic virtue and steady, unbiased tellers of truth. In many instances, they are, unfortunately, the unwatched watchmen.

Let me offer three examples, each drawn from The New York Times, which styles itself as the paper of record (whatever that means) in the United States.

First, we come to the 1619 Project, which posed the hypothesis that 1619, the year that slavery was introduced to English North America, represented the “real” founding date of the United States. That project won all sorts of acclamations, prizes, ribbons and what not.

Its only problem appeared to be that it was wrong...READ MORE AT  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/28/new-york-times-asleep-at-the-switch-over-journalis/

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2. Liberal Glenn Greenwald resigns from the publication he founded - issue was censorship...MORE AT https://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2020/10/liberal-glenn-greenwald-resigns-from-the-publication-he-founded-issue-was-censorship.html

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SEE PART 6 AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS AND JOURNALISTS AT.... https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/10/part-6-at-request-of-our-local-authors_6.html