State financed means state-affiliated unless we say it doesn't

  • berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Previous NYT reporters have said their editors have suppressed stories before due to concerns by the government https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-times-reporter-in-the-shadow-of-the-war-on-terror/

    I was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven years. The Obama administration was demanding that I reveal the confidential sources I had relied on for a chapter about a botched CIA operation in my 2006 book, “State of War.” I had also written about the CIA operation for the New York Times, but the paper’s editors had suppressed the story at the government’s request. It wasn’t the only time they had done so

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      the NYT literally sat on Bush's warrantless wiretapping scandal for more than a year, until after he was reelected in 2004, because the government asked them to.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      I'm sorry, I can't read this because I was told The Intercept was Russian propaganda.

    • panopticon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      NYT fired Chris Hedges for his divergent opinion on the Iraq war, would that make the NYT U.S. State affiliated media under these rules?