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With the recent NYT scandal, what are some other examples of the NYT or similarly "prestigious" news institutions making stuff up or otherwise doing propaganda? (hexbear.net)

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Been seeing a lot of libs say they can't trust the NYT and mainstream news any more but I'm sure there's plenty of reasons to not trust them already. Recent or historical examples

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies

Straight from the top

Russian Revolution, 1917–1920

Lippmann and Merz alleged that the newspaper referred to events that had not taken place, atrocities that did not exist, and that it reported no fewer than 91 times that the Bolshevik regime was on the verge of collapse. "The news about Russia is an example of what people wanted to see, not what happened," Lippmann and Merz wrote. "The main censor and the main propagandist was the hope and fear in the minds of reporters and editors."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

both-sides

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Really makes you think