NY Times Holds Stories Because They're Afraid of Conservatives

[ihavenobias]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/ny-times-holds-stories-be_b_87724.html

NY Times Holds Stories Because They're Afraid of Conservatives
By Cenk Uygur

The John McCain-Vicki Iseman story is not the first article the New York Times has held back for political reasons. They have now done this on at least three occasions:

1. The original FISA story on how the Bush administration was not getting warrants for wiretaps inside the United States.
2. The original story in 2004 that showed Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, not Afghanistan.
3. The McCain-Iseman story.

We had James Risen, the writer of the first two stories on our show back in 2005 and he admitted that they held the Bin Laden story until after the 2004 election because the New York Times didn't want to "get caught up in the politics of it."

Another way of stating that is that they were afraid of being called the liberal media by Republicans. After decades of being chastised for being liberal, they have become gun-shy. In this McCain story, they also held off until they were about to outed by other news agencies as sitting on the story....(for the rest, click the link at the top of the page)


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[Dogmudgeon]

1. Politically, the press is a) out of control, b) following orders, or c) both

This process has accelerated since the 1970s; election gaming is completely out in the open to the point of braggadoccio.

Today's darling is tomorrow's devil. Nobody is safe.

--p!
Impeach Tweety!

[ihavenobias]

4. I think it's a double whammy

of caring about the bottom line above all else and not wanting to appear to be liberally biased. It's a lethal combination.

[CherylK]

2. That is very disappointing

Where is this infamous liberal media bias I have heard so much about? It is a fiction of some right winger's imagination.

[blm]

3. They wouldn't publish the Bush wired at debate story though they had it nailed.

They wouldn't back up Kerry on Tora Bora, either, while allowing Tommy Franks to get away with claims that they knew were false while casting doubt on Kerry's efforts to shed light reTora Bora.

Imagine if the people UNDERSTOOD how seriously STUPID and negligent BushInc was at ToraBora. Unfortunately, Kerry didn't exactly have many Democratic lawmakers backing him up on Tora Bora, either, making it way easier for Bush to get away with it.

[DeeDeeNY]

7. Exactly

This outrageous article backs up your first point

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2012

[yurbud]

5. LA Times didn't run Florida black voter purge until summer AFTER 2000 election

even though all the information was available when the outcome was still up in the air.

[Joe Bacon]

6. Except for Krugman, everyone else is a liar at THE SCREW YORK TIMES!

The Screw York TImes made Whitewater up from a bunch of lies.

The Screw York Times covered up Oliver North and his Contra Cocaine buddies and drove Gary Webb to suicide.

The Screw York Times's überwhore Judith Miller and Jerkoff Jeff Gerth lied us into war.

The Screw York Times lied about Wen Ho Lee.

Whoreen Dowd and Frank Rich lied any lie about Al Gore in 2000 and endlessly kissed the ass of the current RETARD in the White House.

Ad Nags writes whatever the GOP tells him to.

The Screw York Times covered up how Bush cheated in the 2004 debates.

The Screw York Times makes Pravda look like The Nation.

[ihavenobias]

8. If we're naming fools at the NYT let's not leave out

David Brooks. He has LOTS of liberal bias. ;)