What do you guys have against the New York Times ?

Question

I asked a question

Which paper is the most / least credible

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The consensus seems to be that the worst and least credible paper out there is

The New York Times

Ok why - Why is it that you say that ?

I put is to a vote just to see if in fact that remains the consensus of the people on this message board - or - it had somthing to do with the time of day I asked the question

Ususally you don't see agreement like that anyway

Dina W

I like to know what you guys are up to and yes America it's economy and so forth have a big impact on Canada -


Don't worry - I am only watching and reading not coming over to visit and or stay

Answer 1

The New York Times is an excellent newspaper, and the newspaper of record in the United States. It has long been used as a primary source by historians.

However, they have had a few well-publicized editorial disasters in recent years.

The conservatives, who are afraid of facts, have seized on those failures.

I believe that the Wasington Post is a better and more readable paper, but I can't pinpoint why.

Answer 2

The NYT demonstrates the media's attempts to influence policy rather than report the truth.

It has a demonstrated record of inaccuracies, if not outright lies.

Example: A NYT reporter was one of three people who got Castro in power. He wrote a story about Castro being in control of a mountainous region and having hundreds of rebels around him at all times and hearing even more in the distance. At the time of the report, Castro had 10 hard core supporters, left from his original invasion and 10 locals which had a tendency of lasting about 6 months. At the time, the government of Cuba did not even know that Castro had survived the invasion.

The report resulted in the other two people who put Castro in power forcing Batista out of the Country. They were the US Secretary of State and US Ambassador to Cuba. Castro thought it was a trick in fact and did not join the march on Havana until proven to be American stupidity. His "rebels" gained strength during the march as it is the custom in Cuba to demonstrate support of the new president.

In effect, a NYT reporter installed Castro as president of Cuba by printing an outright lie.

See the other examples listed above as well.

Answer 3

Probally because of front page stories like the one about Navy Sailor Amorita Randall.

The sailor talked about being raped in Iraq and suffering injuries in Iraq due to an IED explosion.

NYT contacted the Navy to confirm the story, but only gave the navy 3 days and printed the story anyway, without confirmation.

The sailor in question, had never been to Iraq, she was stationed in Guam.

She made the whole story up.

You would think any credible news paper who verify their facts before printing a front page story.

In response to questions raised after the story turned out to be false, the NYT's answered,

" well the sailor thought she was telling the truth "

They refused to even talk about why they didn't confirm the story first.

The new York Times has also printed stories about .

Anti war veteran Jessie MacBeth and Micah Ian Wright.

Except neither are veterans and neither were ever in Iraq.

Answer 4

I wouldn't normally suggest this, but seriously consider blocking Dine W Bush. Americans appreciate you being interested in which paper we read, she is just a bitter old conservative.
NY Times is supposedly credible, Republicans don't like it. I really do not read papers for world news, for that I watch BBC =)

Answer 5

Remember Dennis Blair? How can we trust a paper that has a 95% liberal op ed section, but believes that conservative talk radio needs a fairness doctrain.

For those of you who don't remember, Dennis Blair was the Times reporter who was taking credit for brakeing stories we was just makeing up at his desk. When he was caught, he played the race card, but not in a defenseive way. He said he was more intellegent then his white superiors for getting away with it for so long.

Answer 6

The New York Times is so liberal and left leaning a reader would never get the truth.

Answer 7

Only a dyed-in-the-wool mindless liberal would think that the NY Times isnt biased towards the Left.

Thats also why its circulation is down and its going bankrupt.

Vince

Answer 8

Times has great international news, and, breaks domestic stories all the time. People have pointed out that as much whining about the times Limbaugh and Hannity perform, they quote from stories from the times, ALL THE TIME!

Answer 9

I do not read it. I hear a lot of criticism about left wing liberal bias being shown in the news and on the editorial pages. This comes from talk radio.

Answer 10

Quite honestly, it's the New York Post that's the least credible.

New York Times is OK, but angry neocons see it as fancy liberal filth.