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The New York Times is a precision information warfare weapon. This is not hyperbole. They target specific stories and blow them out of proportion to assert maximum influence at critical moments.
This is only possible because of trust. Their ammunition is public trust. They build trust over time and then fire it in targeted attacks like the current Alaska ballot campaign.
Whenever you see something creditable from the NYT recognize they are simply rearming their trust stockpile.
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@quixote The Jamison Foser article is great and everyone should read it to understand precisely how the New York Times information warfare operation works.
See also the linked article by @FediThing in the thread about how effectively this methodology was employed against the Nazi's in 1944.
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Sorry, trust once gone, rarely comes back without some extensive demonstration of trustworthy actions. A few stories are insufficient.
@Dougfir Agreed. Once people recognize how they are being manipulated, the trust is never regained. That is why it is important that they do.
The New York Time is just Fox News for people who can read.
@mastodonmigration very well stated—thank you!
@mastodonmigration I really don't understand people who maintain a reverence for the NYT. It seems rooted in Pentagon Papers era thinking, not the many decades of bullshit since.
When the Allies began liberating Europe in 1944, they did something really clever: they quietly set up supposedly pro-Nazi radio stations but every so often inserted propaganda that harmed the Nazi war effort.
It meant that ordinary Germans actively listened to the stations, dropped their psychological guard and then believed various deliberate lies designed to confuse and demoralise them.
(This approach was a lot more effective than the Nazi propaganda stations, which were so obviously propaganda that people didn't believe a word of it.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldatensender_Calais
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_1212
@mastodonmigration @FediThing Thanks for the warning.
The other tactic employed by the New York Times is to give scant coverage to issues they want to suppress. For instance at the same time they are flogging the Alaska ballot story, they are studiously ignoring the new revelations concerning Trump rape, Epstein money, and Kushner payoffs.
The net effect is to normalize extreme issues to protect allied perpetrators and incite action against those they target.
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The NYT is making a mountain over a routine campaign tactic in Alaska while ignoring the same strategy being pursued by the GOP in Nevada. The owners and editors over there only care about advancing their Zionist agendas.
@mastodonmigration Best recent example of this that I've seen is a recent article by Jamison Foser:
"The New York Times invents a Democratic scandal while ignoring a new Trump rape allegation"
A truly minor, and not even illegal, source of confusion (such as the Repubs have been doing for years) vs (another) revolting crime. A proportionate juxtaposition of the two in a headline, which is not in NYT of course.
https://www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york-times-invents-a-democratic-scandal-while-ignoring-a-new-trump-rape-allegation/
The New York Times invents a Democratic scandal while ignoring a new Trump rape allegation