Thread by @MurdochCadell

If you believe that the West is about to embark on (another) clash of ‘good v evil’, on which the fate of the world depends, it’s likely because you assume what you read in papers like the NYT and WaPo is unbiased.

Problem is, it isn’t.

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There was once a great paper called the New York Times. It was the first to cover the huge story that the Vietnam War was ‘a lie’, and the US Govt knew it was a lie.

It’s editors and staff risked jail to bring people the truth.

Unfortunately it died.

Working for the New York Times was a journalist called Neil Sheehan. He spent ten years writing a book that won a Pulitzer.

It was called ‘A Bright Shining Lie’.

Can you guess what it was about?

Neil Sheehan would not be welcome at the Times today.

He’d be in jail.

The Washington Post covered the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal. They took risks to bring you the truth.
Its owner Katherine Graham outed the Govt even though she was a personal friend to some of them.

Today Katherine Graham would be a traitor and Russian spy.

Perhaps the darkest time in the US history was the era of Senator Joe McCarthy. He ruined the lives of many people by denouncing them as enemy agents when in reality they were nothing more good Americans who questioned the narrative of ‘hate’.

Joe would like todays America.

One the saddest facts is that if there was a big story of truth in today’s America, it would appear in the Post, not the Times.

What would Neil say?

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