Saturday, March 23, 2024

Journalistic Malpractice at The New York Times

As we've covered throughout the Missouri v. Biden proceedings, the censors deny the censorship exists while insisting we should be thankful that it does.

Government lawyers have argued that plaintiffs manufactured the case, and the allegations of censorship are nothing more than "An assortment of out-of-context quotes and select portions of documents that distort the record to build a narrative that the bare facts simply do not support." At the same time, they insist the censorship is necessary "To prevent grave harm to the American people and our democratic processes."

Harvard Law Professor Larry Tribe followed their lead, arguing that the private-public censorship apparatus is a "Thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory" but that eliminating it "Will make us less secure as a nation and will endanger us all every day."

The piece cites Nina Jankowicz, the aspiring tyrant known for her Mary Poppins-themed calls for censorship, who claimed there was "No shred of evidence" behind allegations that the Biden administration called to stifle dissent.

The Times, Starbird, and Jankowicz represent the foundational lie underpinning the entire censorship complex: that the government and its bureaucrats hold a monopoly on truth.

As Brownstone outlined in "A Close Look at the Amici Briefs in Murthy v. Missouri," supposedly liberal groups like Stanford University and Democratic Attorneys General urged the Court to promote censorship while the ACLU remained derelict in silence.

In Slate, Mark Joseph Stern referred to Murthy v. Missouri as "Inane" and "Brain-meltingly dumb." He made no effort to report the hundreds of pages in discovery that revealed the coordinated censorship campaigns directed from the White House, the Intelligence Community, and Big Tech, nor did he grapple with the laundry list of follies that flourished under government-sponsored censorship, including the Iraq War, Covid lockdowns, or Hunter Biden's laptop. 

https://brownstone.org/articles/journalistic-malpractice-at-the-new-york-times/ 

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