Rumor
has it that the powers that be at the Times are seriously worried about
their paper’s reputation. There was the story of outright fabrication by
one of its reporters. This could be minimized because the said reporter
was from the minority group and his follies could conceivably be excused
by the reading public as the result of misguided affirmative action and
the undeserving latitude given by the liberal
establishment by treating
minority employees with kid gloves. There was unfortunately the
occurrence of a Pulitzer prize winning accused of plagiarism.
In the pre-war reporting on Iraq, Judith Miller was at best a willing
dupe of the administration and at worst a propagandist for an
administration cabal. The editors of the paper slept at their job
oblivious of the paper’s responsibility and their duty to journalism
principles and the reading public. There was a brief mea culpa editorial
after David Kay’s report in the tone of Reagan’s confession after the
Iran-Contra fiasco saying, "Mistakes were made". The real truth is that
the paper has run out of excuses and the time has come to admit to stop
masquerading under false pretense. When the good and decent pretend to
be bad they destroy themselves like Kurt Vonnegut’s hero of "Mother
Night". When the propagandists with hidden agendas assume the role of
journalists, sooner or later they are ousted and their true identity
becomes obvious. Every media company that becomes a behemoth ultimately
loses its mission and becomes a golden goose beholden to the owners and
subservient to the power elite. Interested readers may wish to read
Herman and Chomsky’s book Manufacturing Consent.
There are now serious doubts about the real reasons why Judith Miller
went to jail and why she agreed to testify to get out of jail and what
were the reasons and motives of the paper in going along with this
charade. So the time has come to recommend a strategy to put this
debacle behind us. The idea came to me when a critical friend remarked
that the New York Times was on a roll with its repeated bloopers. After
deep and long thought my think tank has come up with a brilliant
solution to the problem of the New York Times by embracing the comment
literally. My idea is that the paper be available in a roll, thus
markedly increasing its spectrum of subscribers and functions without
sacrificing its standards. I can see the editors flushing with joy and
relief.
One good invention or idea can be put to many uses. Maybe all
presidential and congressional speeches and many government publications
could also be put on a roll, thus acquiring a functional use and even
being branded premier by their smooth lying about their beneficial
quality. The cleansing benefit of my idea would be widespread and touch
every citizen, while uplifting the bottom almost universally.
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