{"id":886,"date":"2002-08-15T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T16:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/spin-and-loathing-at-the-times\/"},"modified":"2002-08-15T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2002-08-15T16:45:19","slug":"spin-and-loathing-at-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/15\/spin-and-loathing-at-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Spin and loathing at the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/default.aspx?id=2069339\">Mickey Kaus<\/a> notes a correction in the New York Times necessitated by the paper&#8217;s false claims that the economy is in recession and that speeches by Bush and Cheney caused markets to drop:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a NYT editor, or reporter, is so blinded by animosity toward the Administration that they automatically believe these false things are true, what else do they automatically believe is true?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows on the heels of an exquisite analysis of stories by Nina Bernstein on the Times front page about &#8220;child only&#8221; welfare cases which spin bureaucratic attempts to circumvent time-limits as evidence of widespread starvation. <\/p>\n<p>The Times has always had an axe to grind, but I don&#8217;t remember it being quite so shameless in the past. Apparently this new anti-administration jihad is the result of Howell Raines&#8217; stewardship. It&#8217;s a damn good thing we still have a respectable paper in the Washington Post.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus notes a correction in the New York Times necessitated by the paper&#8217;s false claims that the economy is in recession and that speeches by Bush and Cheney caused markets to drop: If a NYT editor, or reporter, is so blinded by animosity toward the Administration that they automatically believe these false things are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/15\/spin-and-loathing-at-the-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spin and loathing at the Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-ei","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}