The New York Times Busted Lying Through its Teeth

[kpete]

THU MAY 15, 2014 AT 08:06 PM PDT
The New York Times Busted Lying Through its Teeth
byJames Hepburn

I got an email from a friend with an image comparing two news reports on the big FCC vote that moves us closer to gutting net neutrality. After reading the Times' quote, it was so shockingly dishonest that my first response was, "it must be fake."



Wow. So I went to the NY Times website to confirm, because even I, who has known for years that the Times was nothing but a PR operation for the 1%, couldn't believe they fallen this low.

But it was real. The version they have up now is slightly scrubbed. But the version in the image apparently went out on the Times' wire service and is still available from scores of small newspapers.


THE REST:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/15/1299692/-The-New-York-Times-Busted-Lying-Through-its-Teeth

[Fumesucker]

1. If the NYT is lying for the benefit of the 1%

Then today must be a day that ends in "day"...

[Wounded Bear]

14. Actually, they only do that...

on weekdays and weekends.

[cer7711]

2. It's Tricksy Verbiage

Technically, every word is true. Service providers won't be able to block or discriminate against "legal content flowing through their pipes."

The catch is (or soon will be): If you haven't paid (names redacted) their blood-money for high-speed access, your "legal content" will find itself stumbling, stuttering and falling--as opposed to smoothly flowing--along the broad-band highway.

The entire passage was cunningly crafted to deceive and report the exact opposite of what this attack on the open internet means in terms of future slow-down of certain content.

[ellie50]

3. Here is the next sentence in the NYT article

While the rules are meant to prevent Internet providers from knowingly slowing data, they would allow content providers to pay for a guaranteed fast lane of service. Some opponents of the plan, those considered net neutrality purists, argue that allowing some content to be sent along a fast lane would essentially discriminate against other content.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. "Net neutrality purists."

The loaded phrasing is enough to churn your stomach.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Indeed. Reminiscent of "the professional left"

Reminds me of when Cokie Roberts scoffed at Howard Dean for "being out of the mainstream."
The smugness of the one percent is insufferable.

[DesertDiamond]

15. OH NOOOO! I don't wanna be a crazy fringe-nut purist! I wanna pay more for my internet service!!!!

Or have my website die because it loads too slow. That will prove I'm not crazy!!

[stillwaiting]

23. It doesn't seem that "net neutrality purists" are going to get their pony this time.

Unbelievably disgusting.

[Enthusiast]

26. Yes! Loaded phrasing. Churning stomach.

Me too. I guess we fall in to the Net Neutrality Purists category. Sort of like The Fringe Left.

[sabrina 1]

10. They've sunk so low they are even using those Think Tank talking points 'purist' which everyone

knows are nothing but part of the effort to silence people. Not that they ever worked, but that is how you know operatives when you see them, they use those words and phrases that are intended to undermine those who dare to speak out on issues like this that are so important to the ruling class.

[redqueen]

4. Again. nt

[Ed Suspicious]

5. "those considered net neutrality purists" I believe, upon deconstructing this phrase, I'm somehow

left with the idea that this purity is sort of fringe and not at all what pragmatic, normal people might go for. Just weirdo fringe purists. Commies if you will.

It reminds me of the language bluedogs and third way dems use to discredit the "liberal left." The pie in the sky idealists who just couldn't possibly get elected and if they would become elected would only weigh on the party the way (said with a sneer) Dennis Kucinich used to.

[adirondacker]

7. Upon looking up Mr. Wyatt's profile on linkdin, I'm not surprised. Frat boy business suit. nt

[RufusTFirefly]

13. Years ago, Cokie Roberts read from the same page of that playbook...

... when she dismissed Howard Dean as being out of the mainstream.
One of many reasons I can no longer stomach National Republican Radio.

[Jackpine Radical]

28. Irrational Republican Radio…

[stillwaiting]

24. It's very calculated that's for sure. They try their best to manipulate the masses by

painting our viewpoints as extreme. Of course, they're not extreme, but too many Americans can't snap out of the brainwashed haze that has been perpetrated against them.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. I hate to admit it - but it's true.

I loved the NY Times, but it seems to have become a tool of the Obama Administration. I have reasons to suspect that Jill Abramson's firing was related to a struggle within the Times to stop this - I'll post on this in the next few days.

[randome]

12. You know, I understand the point made about saying Obama does nothing wrong.

But you seem determined to tie everything that occurs in the world to the President. Your antagonistic bias must be hard to hide any longer.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[GoneFishin]

16. I'll be interested to learn what you discovered. Thus far that story has been couched as a sexual

discrimination and pay inequality situation.

[MannyGoldstein]

17. I suspect it's multiple things.

But it's all serious speculation on my part.

[GoneFishin]

18. If there is substance to it then it will leak out eventually.

[Leme]

11. Any national media, at its best.....

is just the lesser of two (or more) evils. IMO.

[TBF]

20. Within the past 30 years we've

gone from media ownership by 50 companies down to six:



http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

[Leme]

21. I have been unhappy about media coverage for 40 years

That's as far back as I can go from memory. lol Further if I do readings.
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The direction of slope you show may be true enough... but a lot of that is consolidation of common lack of diverse opinions, lack of information, etc. anyways.
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Not that much differing info even before consolidations. Just an opinion.
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But now it is less likely a differing opinion will be given in a major media forum.

[TBF]

19. Nineteen Eighty Four is here - it's Newspeak. nt

[DirkGently]

22. K N R.

[RainDog]

25. k&r n/t

[woo me with science]

27. "Purists," huh.

Creepy uniformity between those talking points and the ones distributed here daily by the resident propaganda crew.

War is Peace, and we live in a corrupt, surveilled, and carefully messaged neoAmerica.

[woo me with science]

29. kick