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Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbells investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full
The Nations Russia Problem
Duncan Campbell, 15 July 2020
One afternoon, five weeks before Election Day in 2016, on the 21st floor of a tower overlooking Manhattans Eighth Avenue, members of The Nations editorial advisory board gathered for a twice-annual meeting. Katrina van den Heuvelthe magazines editor, publisher, and ownerinvited attendees to hear from a special guest, who had come to warn them that criticizing Donald Trumps involvements with Russia, or his relationship with Russias president, Vladimir Putin, could trigger global nuclear annihilation. Van den Heuvel, who was 56, gestured to her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, then 77, a retired professor of Russian studies. Russia and the United States were closer to war than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis, he told the board. He also derided Democrats and American media organizations for demonization of Russian President Putin.
Philip Green, a political theorist who had been on the board for forty years, listened with skepticism. Cohens theory, presented with deadly and urgent seriousness, he thought, appeared to be channeling the paranoia of the far-right. Others felt the same way. But afterward, Green says, It became the party line.
Cohen would go on to make the same argument in at least 160 Nation articles; more than a hundred talk radio show appearances; and on Russias state-owned international channel, Russia Today (RT). In many cases, his articles were essentially transcribed radio programs that were unedited and did not go through other editorial filters, according to Robert Dreyfuss, a Nation contributing editor and investigative journalist. Accusing the Russian government of committing an act of war by hacking the Democratic National Committee, Cohen warned, might mean the necessity of actual war, conceivably nuclear war, against Russia. He wrote that villainizing the Kremlinwithout much evidenceis increasing the possibility of a US-Russian war. Once Trump took office, Cohen branded media investigations of Russias involvement with the Trump campaign as neo-McCarthyism and Kremlin-baiting.
For these critiques, Cohen won praise from outlets such as Fox News and Breitbart, anathema to The Nation readership; soon, he began making periodic appearances on Tucker Carlson Tonight. Today, in my scholarly, long-term judgment, relations between the United States and Russia are more dangerous than they have everlet me repeat, everbeen, including the Cuban missile crisis, Cohen told Carlson in 2018.
entire article at https://bylinetimes.com/2023/02/04/russia-and-the-us-press-the-article-the-cjr-didnt-publish/
Tetrachloride
(7,877 posts)1. written like a novella
2. headline or opening paragraphs no target or cast of characters
3. no conclusions in final paragraph worth reading
To sum up, The Nation carried water for Putin and has gotten away with it.
emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)She tries to mask her motivations, but most commenters see right through her.
Shes a smart person, too bad shes turned to the dark side.
Turbineguy
(37,375 posts)I wish those wingnuts would make up their minds.