Bari, all of the things you mention are vitally important and again, I am grateful to you and The Free Press for your excellent reporting. I confess I feel overwhelmed at times. I honestly don’t know how you all keep at it, 24/7. Thank you. You must be exhausted, yet you & your team keep constant in your search for truth. I may not agree with all of your politics, but that does not matter. I admire anyone with ethics, with sincerity, with a desire to shine light in all the dark places. Keep pounding. You have my respect and my prayers.
While I understand how it looks for the WGA to say so little on this issue after having taking a stance on so many previously, I have to say I think it's about time. Back when I was part of a national publishing association, I deplored their statement about Florida legislative bills on education, for example. Every institution does not need to chime in on national or global matters or events. Again, I know the timing is grim, and I get that (and also, if not now, then when?), but I hope many institutions will stop the madness and stick to whatever it is each given institution was established for in the first place. I harken back to what Jacob Savage wrote last week in The Free Press: "Maybe, just maybe, a new equilibrium can be reached. Maybe we can agree that political litmus tests for employment are bad, that requiring DEI statements is bad, that not every organization and every individual needs to comment on every political issue."
If you believe the propaganda of the terrorists Hamas, Palestinian “Government of Anything in Gaza” (Hamas) you need to realize you are a Jew hating cretin embracing the ideology of Nazi’s! The number of people expressing outright hatred for Jews is horrible. I hope my Jewish brothers and sisters realize that the Democratic Party has always embraced identity politics and will not control their extreme elements. The 2nd Amendment will protect us all from the slaughter these radicals desire.
Petition State Education Dept to Revoke the License of “colleges”; and to Petition the Accreditation Agencies to revoke the Accreditation of those colleges; that are pro hamas and anti israel- jews. Put Harvard, NYU,Columbia, CCNY, Brown, Rutgers UPenn,UC Berkeley out of business. FYI- It's a denial of equal protection issue not free speech issue. Please forward this post.
Bari and the amazing TFP team--how can you continue with the sacred work you are doing given the blindness on the side of "educated" whose eyes you are trying to open? Where are you taking the perseverance? Nothing seems to help--or do you see light at the end of the tunnel? Oh wait, tunnels are the source of death and distraction in Israel. We should update the metaphor...
In fairness, to date both Michelle Goldberg and (today) Bret Stephens have written about the MSM misinformation debacle. Of course, Goldberg was mostly trying to downplay the incident, and Stephens was trying to spread the blame. Both went out of their way to make "what about" comments regarding the tendency for political and military leaders to lie.
If you want an easy red flag for likely misinformation, look for the phrase “[so and so] say” tagged at the end of a headline. The original NYT headlines for the Gaza hospital blast (Bari Weiss documented at least three) all ended with “Palestinians say.” So now we know who spread the misinformation about the hospital blast: it was “Palestinians” (according to the NYT, if you trust them). Of course, "political and military officials sometimes lie," Stephens says. But sometimes journalists lie, too. It wasn’t “Palestinians.” It was the Gaza Health Ministry, an arm of Hamas.
From the headlines in today’s digital edition (going back about four days) of the NYT I found these:
“Complaint says”
“Police say”
“Authorities say”
"Experts say"
“Officials say” in three separate articles on different topics (what “officials”?)
And on the issue of the Gaza hospital blast? Today, in a front page subheader, the NYT says: “A widely cited missile video does not shed light on what happened, a Times analysis concludes.” Well, according to yesterday’s NYT, “U.S. Cites ‘High Confidence’ That Palestinian Rocket Caused Hospital Blast” (make note of the scare quotes around High Confidence).
It just goes to show that MSM journalists have become lazy and complacent, and reinforces the need to find out what more than one person or group of people are "saying."
The Gazans had to have heard the 7000 rockets firing at Israel. What was their reaction? Had they voted to purchase the weapons? To fire the rockets? Who made the decision to fire the rockets? Were they in Gaza on October 7, 2023, when their orders were carried out?
Excellent, the Free Press partnering with The Center for Peace Communications. Looking forward eagerly to hear more testimonies, ones that are not Hamas propaganda fed to uncritical, profit-focused news media. But, I wonder how the CPC obtain interviewees? Who will speak with them? Only those looking for a opportunity to criticise Hamas?
The Tide has turned and the left are no longer credible. To report the Gaza hospital bombing without checking the facts is totally inexcusable, and they call themselves Journalists.
Bari: What’s the solution? It’s not just the NYTs. It’s WaPo, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, CNN, MSNBC and more who intentionally report opinion as fact. Anyone remember Russia, Russia, Russia? Anyone remember a CNN reporter standing in front on a burning building in Kenosha reporting, “Mostly peaceful protests”. Trump called it fake news and was excoriated by those producing the fake news. We have a president who refers to all voters who disagree with his politics as a “threat to democracy” and this is reported as fact. It’s extremely unfortunate that it’s taken the beheading of babies and the rape of grandmothers for a lot of people to see what so many of us have known for way too long. Thank you for what you have done and continue to do.
The NYT has become grotesque. But never forget that they put the Holocaust on page 39 or so of the paper back in the day during WW2, for fear of appearing too Jewish. No danger of that these days. They've gone from one horrible, incompetent editor to another - it's hard to grasp how these men look, or looked, themselves in the mirror over the years.
Is Harvard President Claudine Gay anti-Semitic?
https://carolinacurmudgeon.substack.com/p/is-harvard-president-claudine-gay
Bari, all of the things you mention are vitally important and again, I am grateful to you and The Free Press for your excellent reporting. I confess I feel overwhelmed at times. I honestly don’t know how you all keep at it, 24/7. Thank you. You must be exhausted, yet you & your team keep constant in your search for truth. I may not agree with all of your politics, but that does not matter. I admire anyone with ethics, with sincerity, with a desire to shine light in all the dark places. Keep pounding. You have my respect and my prayers.
While I understand how it looks for the WGA to say so little on this issue after having taking a stance on so many previously, I have to say I think it's about time. Back when I was part of a national publishing association, I deplored their statement about Florida legislative bills on education, for example. Every institution does not need to chime in on national or global matters or events. Again, I know the timing is grim, and I get that (and also, if not now, then when?), but I hope many institutions will stop the madness and stick to whatever it is each given institution was established for in the first place. I harken back to what Jacob Savage wrote last week in The Free Press: "Maybe, just maybe, a new equilibrium can be reached. Maybe we can agree that political litmus tests for employment are bad, that requiring DEI statements is bad, that not every organization and every individual needs to comment on every political issue."
If you believe the propaganda of the terrorists Hamas, Palestinian “Government of Anything in Gaza” (Hamas) you need to realize you are a Jew hating cretin embracing the ideology of Nazi’s! The number of people expressing outright hatred for Jews is horrible. I hope my Jewish brothers and sisters realize that the Democratic Party has always embraced identity politics and will not control their extreme elements. The 2nd Amendment will protect us all from the slaughter these radicals desire.
Need Lawyers and Donors to:
Petition State Education Dept to Revoke the License of “colleges”; and to Petition the Accreditation Agencies to revoke the Accreditation of those colleges; that are pro hamas and anti israel- jews. Put Harvard, NYU,Columbia, CCNY, Brown, Rutgers UPenn,UC Berkeley out of business. FYI- It's a denial of equal protection issue not free speech issue. Please forward this post.
Bari and the amazing TFP team--how can you continue with the sacred work you are doing given the blindness on the side of "educated" whose eyes you are trying to open? Where are you taking the perseverance? Nothing seems to help--or do you see light at the end of the tunnel? Oh wait, tunnels are the source of death and distraction in Israel. We should update the metaphor...
In fairness, to date both Michelle Goldberg and (today) Bret Stephens have written about the MSM misinformation debacle. Of course, Goldberg was mostly trying to downplay the incident, and Stephens was trying to spread the blame. Both went out of their way to make "what about" comments regarding the tendency for political and military leaders to lie.
If you want an easy red flag for likely misinformation, look for the phrase “[so and so] say” tagged at the end of a headline. The original NYT headlines for the Gaza hospital blast (Bari Weiss documented at least three) all ended with “Palestinians say.” So now we know who spread the misinformation about the hospital blast: it was “Palestinians” (according to the NYT, if you trust them). Of course, "political and military officials sometimes lie," Stephens says. But sometimes journalists lie, too. It wasn’t “Palestinians.” It was the Gaza Health Ministry, an arm of Hamas.
From the headlines in today’s digital edition (going back about four days) of the NYT I found these:
“Complaint says”
“Police say”
“Authorities say”
"Experts say"
“Officials say” in three separate articles on different topics (what “officials”?)
And on the issue of the Gaza hospital blast? Today, in a front page subheader, the NYT says: “A widely cited missile video does not shed light on what happened, a Times analysis concludes.” Well, according to yesterday’s NYT, “U.S. Cites ‘High Confidence’ That Palestinian Rocket Caused Hospital Blast” (make note of the scare quotes around High Confidence).
It just goes to show that MSM journalists have become lazy and complacent, and reinforces the need to find out what more than one person or group of people are "saying."
The Gazans had to have heard the 7000 rockets firing at Israel. What was their reaction? Had they voted to purchase the weapons? To fire the rockets? Who made the decision to fire the rockets? Were they in Gaza on October 7, 2023, when their orders were carried out?
AI in 2023 = Crypto in 2018 = Internet in 1999. Value in each case but obscured by froth.
Ok
More hate coming from a college campus:
https://evebarlow.substack.com/p/lezbollah
Worth reading!
Excellent, the Free Press partnering with The Center for Peace Communications. Looking forward eagerly to hear more testimonies, ones that are not Hamas propaganda fed to uncritical, profit-focused news media. But, I wonder how the CPC obtain interviewees? Who will speak with them? Only those looking for a opportunity to criticise Hamas?
The Tide has turned and the left are no longer credible. To report the Gaza hospital bombing without checking the facts is totally inexcusable, and they call themselves Journalists.
Bari: What’s the solution? It’s not just the NYTs. It’s WaPo, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, CNN, MSNBC and more who intentionally report opinion as fact. Anyone remember Russia, Russia, Russia? Anyone remember a CNN reporter standing in front on a burning building in Kenosha reporting, “Mostly peaceful protests”. Trump called it fake news and was excoriated by those producing the fake news. We have a president who refers to all voters who disagree with his politics as a “threat to democracy” and this is reported as fact. It’s extremely unfortunate that it’s taken the beheading of babies and the rape of grandmothers for a lot of people to see what so many of us have known for way too long. Thank you for what you have done and continue to do.
The NYT has become grotesque. But never forget that they put the Holocaust on page 39 or so of the paper back in the day during WW2, for fear of appearing too Jewish. No danger of that these days. They've gone from one horrible, incompetent editor to another - it's hard to grasp how these men look, or looked, themselves in the mirror over the years.
So happy to give this post the one thousandth like