NY TIMES: MOUTHPIECE of the STATE- Why Did The New York Times Kill This Image of Henry Kissinger?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Why Did The New York Times Kill This Image of Henry Kissinger? (Not for His Naked Butt Cheeks!)
By Steve Brown, AlterNet. Posted March 9, 2009.

The Kissinger image below (by David Levine) is one of 320 illustrations – by 142 of the world's most acclaimed contemporary artists – that The New York Times itself originally commissioned for its Op-Ed Pages, but then got cold feet about running, and eventually paid more than $1 million in “kill fees” to hide from public view (sometimes for as long as 38 years).

What didn't the Times want you to see?


Can you imagine illustrations so "blasphemous," so "politically embarrassing," so sexually "over the line" that The New York Times gladly paid a fortune just to protect your delicate eyes from being exposed to them?

You’ll find hundreds of such allegedly “not-fit-to-print” illustrations – together with the bizarre and often ludicrous reasons for suppressing them – in a sly and deliciously funny new book called All The Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t), by Jerelle Kraus, former Art Editor of the Times Op-Ed and Editorial Pages, who reluctantly quit her "dream job" at the Times after 13 years in order to publish it.

And we're fortunate she did. Her book (published by Columbia University Press) rescues 320 eye-stopping illustrations by 142 of the world’s most provocative graphic artists, including David Levine, Jules Feiffer, Ronald Searle, Milton Glaser, Charles Addams, Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey, Ralph Steadman, Larry Rivers, Saul Steinberg, Ben Shahn, Art Speigelman, Andy Warhol, Garry Trudeau, and many more.



http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/130698/why_did_the_new_york_times_kill_this_image_of_henry_kissinger_(not_for_his_naked_butt_cheeks!)/

[Buzz Clik]

1. NY Times mouthpiece of the state?

sigh.

Sounds like someone is hawking books.

[zbdent]

2. well, the "bastion of the looney left" New York Times

in its effort to set in place a communist/socialist dictatorship by doing everything in its power to undermine the Bush Administration ...

kept quiet the stories about Bush and company actually spying on U.S. citizens without warrants ... until well after the 2004 election where "Commie Sympathizer" Kerry would have been exactly what the "America Hating" New York Times would have wanted ...

[blindpig]

3. Maybe so....

Mouthpiece of the ruling class might be more accurate. The NYT do generally represent the ruling class consensus. Attributions of right or left are irrelevant and confusing, the Times is generally right wing on economic topics and somewhat liberal on cultural issues. Thus they are essentially libertarian. The confounding of economic and cultural issues, the giving of equal weight to them when economic issues are clearly paramount and many of the cultural issues being derivative of the economic serve the ruling class, giving them cover. It serves the right well, keeping the people arguing secondary issues while the primary issues go un-addressed.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

4. Beautifully stated

[DemoTex]

5. "Banned Cartoons from the New York Times" BuzzFlash

http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1517