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In reply to the discussion: Media Experts Blast New York Times Over Glowing Profile Of Koch Brothers [View all]KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)28. Or when they reported Bush would have won the recount:
http://www.alternet.org/story/86585/new_york_times_perpetuates_the_myth_that_george_bush_won_the_2000_election
"In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by the New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied." Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, May 23, 2008, in a review of the HBO television movie, "Recount"
That's not true.
The New York Times did not do its own recount. It did participate in a consortium. Here's what the consortium actually said: "If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards, and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin." Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, New York Times, Nov. 12, 2001.
"In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by the New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied." Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, May 23, 2008, in a review of the HBO television movie, "Recount"
That's not true.
The New York Times did not do its own recount. It did participate in a consortium. Here's what the consortium actually said: "If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards, and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin." Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, New York Times, Nov. 12, 2001.
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Media Experts Blast New York Times Over Glowing Profile Of Koch Brothers [View all]
YoungDemCA
Aug 2015
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And when they gave Bush the election in 2004 when holding back on an article then...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#33
'Silicon Valley' is a parallel example, $upporting many liberal social issue causes
HFRN
Aug 2015
#6
Who owns and controls the NYT and the editorial board that would allow such a propaganda piece to be printed?
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#4
Yeah, that is the end of the NYT. It is only a matter of time, we fight the good fight
AllFieldsRequired
Aug 2015
#5
On the bright side, we all now know that when push comes to shove who - and what - the NYT will push first.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#9
Do you know a business person who is a repub or tea partier? Talk to them long enough and
AllFieldsRequired
Aug 2015
#11