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\"The_New_York_Times\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that the \u201ctraditional news media\u201d are in decline \u2014 viewership and readership are down sharply, and, as a generational issue, Armageddon lies dead ahead: the fact is that a large and growing number of people under the age of 30 don\u2019t consult traditional media outlets at all.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> is the self-declared \u201cpaper of record,\u201d and it is, as the right loves to point out, the supposed standard bearer of a supposed \u201cliberal elite\u201d.\u00a0 And yet the Times <\/em>is increasingly difficult to engage as a top-down authority in a world where news reporting is no longer merely a matter of professionals trained to provide the public with a healthy high-fibre diet of vetted stories and opinion.\u00a0 There are real reasons for this, most of them editorial.\u00a0 The \u201cbalance\u201d that journalism is supposed to provide on stories of the day has devolved into ideological warfare in which, if X says one thing, then what Y says in response \u2014 no matter how crazy or irresponsible or demonstrably, factually wrong<\/em> \u2014 is fair comment and deserving of equal consideration.\u00a0 Fact-checking is secondary.\u00a0 The passive reporting of what gets said<\/em> is primary.\u00a0 And the New York Times <\/em>has only added to the problem in recent years when it should in fact have been combating it on all fronts.<\/p>\n

The complicity of the Times <\/em>in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq is an excellent place to start, and characterizing it requires just one name, Judith Miller<\/a>, who took insider-access journalism to a disastrous history altering low. <\/em>In one infamous instance, Dick Cheney\u2019s office provided Miller with unreliable intelligence pertaining to Saddam Hussein\u2019s supposed effort to produce nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Miller duly published it in the Times<\/em> on 7 September 2002, and Cheney then cited it the next day <\/em>on Meet the Press <\/em>as independent confirmation<\/a>.\u00a0 In this way a dubious leak from an anonymous self-serving source became news in the paper of record, which effectively legitimatized it.\u00a0 It\u2019s no wonder that progressive bloggers disdainfully refer to Washington insiders (whether politicians or journalists) as Villagers<\/a>.\u00a0 Miller, of course, was also subsequently implicated in the crazy Rube Goldberg machinations by which Cheney\u2019s office outed CIA agent Valerie Plame<\/a> as political payback to her husband, Joseph Wilson, for his effort to debunk these same shoddy allegations circulating out of Cheney\u2019s office.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

The Times <\/em>has never found its footing since the awfulness of the Miller affair and apparently still can\u2019t make amends.\u00a0 Eight years ago it was willing to publish bogus stories on non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but today can\u2019t in its news pages bring itself to call the abuse the Bush administration inflicted upon detainees \u201ctorture<\/a>\u201c. It prefers instead placebos like \u201charsh\u201d or \u201cenhanced interrogation,\u201d despite the fact that practices like waterboarding<\/a> (\u201dsimulated drowning\u201d in NYTspeak) are recognized in international law as torture and are therefore prosecutable as war crimes.\u00a0 Not to call them war crimes is to give war criminals credible cover for their actions: \u201cSome say waterboarding is torture, some say it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s all debatable.\u201d\u00a0 But that is not the case.\u00a0 Waterboarding is torture.\u00a0 It is a war crime.\u00a0 Those who are responsible for it should be prosecuted and punished.<\/p>\n

If only it ended there.\u00a0 But last year the Times<\/em> hired a conservative columnist to replace Republican party operative Bill Kristol, the 29 year old Ross Douthat, who, judging by his mediocrity and meteoric rise, is a familiar example of the Peter Principle for the privileged and well-connected.\u00a0 Week after week Douthat publishes columns that are a journalistic embarrassment for their intellectual shallowness and occasional incomprehensibility.\u00a0 All are arguably notable for their ideology driven dishonesty.\u00a0 What Douthat produces seems designed <\/a>well in advance to mislead though omission, commission and casuistry.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a relatively innocuous but still maddening example from his column this week suggesting that the Tories in the current British election are following the example of American \u201cconservatives\u201d:<\/p>\n

The Tories\u2019 election manifesto<\/a>, released early last week, promises \u201ca sweeping redistribution of power\u201d \u2014 from London to local institutions, and \u201cfrom the state to citizens.\u201d In one of the most centralized countries in the Western world, Cameron is championing a dramatic transfer of responsibility \u2014 for schools, hospitals, police forces \u2014 to local governments and communities. In a nation with a vast and creaking welfare state, he\u2019s urging people to put more faith in voluntarism, charity and the beleaguered two-parent family. (This last plank has attracted the ire of none other than J. K. Rowling, who recently attacked the Tories for stigmatizing single motherhood<\/a>.) His emphasis, again and again, has been on a smaller, leaner, less intrusive government \u2014 and in its place, a \u201cbig society\u201d that can bear the burden currently shouldered by social workers and bureaucracies<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How exactly does this resemble the nihilistic tax-cutting and record-deficit-spending \u2014 not to mention unconstitutionally intrusive and<\/em> incompetent \u2014 <\/em>super-government of the Bush years and the Republican congressional majorities he enjoyed?\u00a0 It\u2019s difficult for someone in Douthat\u2019s position to deny that the vast majority of American \u201cconservatives\u201d don\u2019t believe in limited government, despite ritually chanted claims to the contrary (see, for example, the latest polling<\/a> of Teabaggers when it comes to entitlements like Social Security and Medicare); but they do, on the evidence of their actions, believe in bad<\/em> government because that\u2019s the most efficient way to empty the treasury into the pockets of the already advantaged.\u00a0 (Remember Bill Clinton\u2019s trillions in savings siphoned away in tax cuts to the richest 5% of the population?) Today\u2019s \u201cconservatives\u201d clearly hold that the American public shouldn\u2019t be allowed affordable health care according to repugnant and antiquated social Darwinist principles, but that same public is nevertheless expected to refund the criminal negligence of the grifters of the financial class, as well as bankroll a never-ending war on terror.\u00a0 It\u2019s always guns, never butter \u2014 except for those who already have guns and a steady supply of butter, in which case it\u2019s all gravy.\u00a0 The cognitive dissonance here is so violent that it\u2019s like the closing thirty minutes of just about any Sam Peckinpah movie.<\/p>\n

To liken any of this to British Conservatism, whatever else may be said of it, is delusional at best.\u00a0 It is, in any event, distressing that New York Times <\/strong><\/em>readers should have to put up with such nonsense.\u00a0 If we really needed to encounter it, we\u2019d only have to consult corporate neo-con organs like the Wall Street Journal <\/em>or the Washington Post <\/em>with their increasingly Borg-like conformity of outlook. <\/em>The point is that short-sheeting partisans like Douthat can be found everywhere in the right wing media house of mirrors.\u00a0 While not a bellowing demagogue like Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity, Douthat is still an astonishingly graceless apologist for the-things-he-already-knows-to-be-unquestionably-true \u2014 he, for instance, recently apportioned blame for the Church\u2019s latest sex abuse scandal to (you guessed it) liberalism<\/em>.\u00a0 And just the other day he invoked the Glenn Beck defense that the violently incendiary remarks that emanate from commentators on the right are merely \u201centertainment.\u201d These are the marks of a person who perceives very narrowly, is given to irrational resentments that must be compulsively repeated, and can never admit to error.\u00a0 Why then is he writing for the paper of record?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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