N.Y. TIMES SPINS OUT OF CONTROL
Here's how they kicked off their report on Arnett:
Peter Arnett, a correspondent based in Baghdad for NBC News and National Geographic Explorer, told Iraqi state television yesterday that his reporting about Iraqi civilian casualties "helps those who oppose the war." The allied war plan, he said, "has failed because of Iraqi resistance."
The comments were likely to make Mr. Arnett a renewed target of Republican lawmakers
A renewed target of mean Republican lawmakers? What are they going to do now, pass the Peter Arnett Traitor Act and force Bush to destroy his Ministry of Propaganda? A nation at war can only dream. It's funny how the very first thing the Times thinks upon hearing the anti-American interview is how to spin the story back on any Republican who dares speak out against the guy. That's weird enough, but it's also illuminating that they couldn't concieve of a single Democrat lawmaker having a problem with Arnett. Their attempt at a 180-degree spin in this case actually whipped them 360-degrees right back to the conclusion: Democrats, Arnett and Saddam have a wartime love triangle. You just have to read between the lines they saw fit to print.
UPDATE:
The Times is also running Orwellian whitewashes of American Communist leaders' obits:
In Sunday’s New York Post, Frederic U. Dicker reported that "two once-prominent American Communists passed on in recent days; and reading the sanitized and adulatory obituaries in The New York Times, once can only say sadly, ’There they go again.’”
The two deaths in question were "Marxist historian” Herbet Aptheker, whose longtime membership in the Central Committee of the Communist Party U.S.A. was ignored, and novelist Howard Fast, who "was a Daily Worker regular and the 1953 winner of the Stalin Peace Prize.”
...Aptheker once told Dicker that "he couldn’t ever imagine reaching a conclusion as an historian that contradicted Communist Party positions, because the CP had the best brains and the best analytical tools for finidng the truth.”
One of Aptheker’s sillier quotes, recalls Dicker,, was delivered at Long Island University’s Socialist Club, of which Dicker was then vice chairman: "If the ends don’t justifiy the means, what does?”