NYT: "Truth"

[kpete]

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[BSdetect]

1. The thin thread of truth is dangling on a sword edge now.

[gratuitous]

2. Is this the New York Times that ran Judith Miller and Elisabeth Bumiller?

Welcome back to the world of journalism, New York Times. If your ad is serious, that is.

[kentuck]

4. With all the information in the world, it is almost impossible to be right all the time.

But, the important thing is that you are open to be corrected by anyone. The object is the truth, wherever it might come from. There is a difference in permitting a mistake to be corrected and permitting a mistake to be covered up and lied about.

[gratuitous]

14. Judith Miller's reporting was disputed in real time

And the Times stood by her stories, even through the invasion of Iraq and the squandering of billions upon billions of dollars and millions of lives. Elisabeth Bumiller's weekly valentines to the Bush administration were clearly designed to take the edge off these hard truths and lend a soft-focus image to a pack of blood-gargling psychopaths.

If the Times corrected any of this, it escaped my notice.

[Demsrule86]

11. Honestly...some are never happy.

[gratuitous]

15. Yeah, a few million dead or injured, a few billion squandered

I mean, let's let bygones be bygones. We can argue all day long about who published credulous reports that bolstered the bogus case for invading Iraq, but the fact is the Times is now all dedicated to the truth (they even ran an ad!), so we can totally trust them now to be on the side of the angels forevermore.

Yeah, I'm still kind of unhappy about that whole Iraq thing and its foreseeable sequelae that continue to bedevil us to this day.

[underpants]

3. Damn. The Old Grey Lady is pissed.

[Ms. Toad]

5. I like the concept - but I'm not at all thrilled with the execution.

This has fewer phrases that can be twisted to support the fake news contention that no one can ever really know the truth, but starting out with "the truth is hard," and "the truth is hidden" does not thrill me.

[kentuck]

6. Much of the truth is "hidden".

What is in Donald Trump's tax returns, for example?

What was said in the phone call between Flynn and Russian official?

How much does Trump have invested in his businesses in Russia?

The truth is "hard" to get sometimes.

[Ms. Toad]

8. I would rather see the focus on uncovering it,

than on describing its current state - which I see as feeding into the meme that no one really knows what's true.

[Gothmog]

7. I stand with the NYT

[Demsrule86]

12. I agree.

[defacto7]

10. K&R

I just want to kick this for exposure. So true...
No pun intended....

[LAS14]

13. Then there's the TV ad. Do you think it works?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028717287