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On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:51:18 -0700,  Michael A Terrell says...  

> > That doesn't mean they aren't credible.
> 
> When you do provide sources, which is pretty close to never, they are always 
> documented lie sites with *zero* credibility.

Like the New York Times.

Pointing out every instance where The New York Times has been accused of or admitted to publishing false information would take 
up WAY too much of my time, so this is what we get... for now.

Documented Instances and Categories of Concern:

Coverage of the Russian Revolution (1917-1920): Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz conducted an investigation that concluded The 
New York Times" reporting was biased and inaccurate, driven by the hopes of the news organization rather than facts. 

Coverage of the Holodomor (Ukrainian Famine of the 1930s): The reporting of Walter Duranty, the Times" Moscow bureau chief, has 
been heavily criticized for downplaying and denying the widespread famine. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for this coverage, a 
decision that remains controversial. 

Coverage of the Holocaust: Laurel Leff's book, Buried by the Times, argues that the newspaper downplayed the genocide of European 
Jews in its pages, often burying stories and avoiding the specific mention of Jewish victims. 

Los Alamos Investigation (1999): The New York Times published stories based on leaked information that falsely implicated Wen Ho 
Lee in the alleged theft of classified documents. The government's case against Lee eventually collapsed, and he received a 
public apology.

Judith Miller and Iraq War Coverage: Reporter Judith Miller played a significant role in the Times" coverage leading up to the 
Iraq War, publishing articles that contained misinformation about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction. This 
coverage has been widely criticized as inaccurate and influential in shaping public opinion. 

Jayson Blair Plagiarism and Fabrication (2003): Reporter Jayson Blair was found to have engaged in repeated journalistic fraud, 
including plagiarism and fabrication of stories. This led to a major scandal and the resignation of several high-ranking editors. 
The New York Times famously forced Jayson Blair to resign over a plagiarism and fabrication scandal.

"Caliphate" Podcast (2018): This podcast series, which won awards, relied heavily on the account of a man who later admitted to 
fabricating his stories about being an ISIS fighter. The New York Times eventually retracted significant portions of the podcast 
and returned awards.

Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Times' coverage has frequently been a subject of controversy, with accusations 
of bias from both sides. Recent criticism includes the reporting on sexual violence during the October 7th,2023 attacks, with 
some journalism professors calling for an independent review of the reporting process. 

Coverage of Transgender Issues: GLAAD and other LGBTQ+ organizations have criticized The New York Times for publishing biased and 
inaccurate pieces about transgender people, which they argue are used to justify discriminatory legislation. 

Retractions and Corrections: The Times regularly issues corrections for factual errors, which range from minor TO SIGNIFICANT.
 
These corrections are a standard practice in journalism, but the frequency and nature of some HAVE RAISED CONCERNS. 

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The New York Times History Of False Reporting Exposed
 
The "Old Gray Lady," as The New York Times is often called, has long been 
referred to as "the newspaper of record" in the United States. While these 
were terms of endearment once upon a time, increasingly they are being 
viewed as either disparaging or, in the case of the latter description, 
outright false.

A project by a Media Research Center has been tracking and analyzing 
falsehoods, mis-characterizations, omissions and other journalistic 
fabrications at the paper for a decade. Here are some of the most 
egregious abuses of the Times' public trust over the past 10 years:

The dishonest deletion by columnist Maureen Dowd. The first major story 
broken, detailed an attempt at deception by columnist and former White 
House reporter Maureen Dowd. In her May 14, 2003 column, titled "Osama's 
Offspring," regarding President Bush's pursuit of the Taliban in 
Afghanistan, "Dowd used an ellipsis to totally misrepresent a Bush 
statement from a May 5 speech in Arkansas to imply he said the Al Qaeda 
terrorist network is 'not a problem anymore,' changing Bush's meaning to 
make him look naive about the war on terror," the Times watchdog reported.

Here is what Dowd wrote: "That group of terrorists who attacked our 
country is slowly but surely being decimated. . . . They're not a problem 
anymore."

Here is what Bush actually said: "Al Qaeda is on the run. That group of 
terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated. 
Right now, about half of all the top Al Qaeda operatives are either jailed 
or dead. In either case, they're not a problem anymore."

The Jayson Blair plagiarism episode. Also in 2003, they began covering 
what became a major case of plagiarism by an up-and-coming star Times 
reporter, Jayson Blair. Up-and-coming, that is, until his deceit was 
exposed.

In April 2003, a reporter for a San Antonio newspaper noticed a story in 
the New York Times was almost identical to one she had written the week 
before. An exhaustive internal investigation uncovered dozens of instances 
of plagiarism or deception on the work by that same reporter, Jayson 
Blair, guilty of stealing copy from other newspapers as his own, putting 
quotes in the mouths of people, and filing fraudulent datelines from his 
apartment in Brooklyn - even using the Times photo bank to create the 
illusion of verisimilitude.

To its credit, the paper did publish an exhaustive 7,200-plus page 
investigative report on May 11, 2003, detailing Blair's "long trail of 
deception." To its discredit, publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, who 
passed the buck: "The person who did this is Jayson Blair. Let's not begin 
to demonize our executives -- either the desk editors, or the executive 
editor or, dare I say, the publisher."

Blair, among other things, blamed "depression" and "racism" for his 
decision to plagiarize.

Trashing the Duke Lacrosse team as a gang of rapists - incorrectly. 

Throwing aside a legal principle dating back to the founding of our 
country - that suspects are innocent until proven guilty - the "newspaper 
of record" slimed three Duke Lacrosse players as racist rapists long 
before they were eventually found to have been falsely accused.

The paper notoriously slimed, in both news and columns, three innocent 
Duke lacrosse players, falsely accused in March 2006 by stripper Crystal 
Mangum of rape at a house party. The players were prosecuted by Michael 
Nifong, district attorney for Durham County in North Carolina. But 
Mangum's tale was plagued by inconsistencies, and two of the three players 
had bulletproof alibis. The allegations were soon shown to be completely 
false, and Nifong was later disbarred for fraud and misconduct. ... Yet 
throughout the ordeal liberal Times reporters and columnist Selena 
Roberts, threw out the presumption of innocence and routinely slimed the 
players, assuming them guilty of at the very least the sin of white 
privilege.

Regular mis-characterization of the Tea Party, while lauding Occupy Wall 
Street. "The Times was late to the Tea Party in 2009 and arrived with a 
surly attitude. But the paper's mood brightened considerably in 2011, when 
the paper discovered that left-wingers had set up a squatters camp in 
downtown Manhattan known as Occupy Wall Street."

Indeed, the paper's coverage of conservative-oriented protests against 
Obamacare and other progressive administration initiatives typically 
received far less favorable coverage than the Occupy Wall Street movement, 
which devolved into a gigantic flop house for loafers, malcontents and 
just about anyone else with an aversion to showering.

"Michael Kimmelman's piece on Occupy Wall Street was accompanied by 
flattering historical photos, including one of the famous man in front of 
the tank in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But when the Times reached back for 
an analog in a previous story on the Tea Party it found... the domestic 
terrorist group Weather Underground."