The NYT’s Trump Iran ‘attack’ story and the failures of foreign policy reporting
We learned this week that Trump asked for plans to bomb Iran, but the full scope of the issue went largely unaddressed.
We learned this week that Trump asked for plans to bomb Iran, but the full scope of the issue went largely unaddressed.
Reporters are fascinated by a weapon that purportedly results in fewer instances of collateral damage, but its existence as a byproduct of endless war is often overlooked.
Chris Kitze helped get NBC online and pumped out some birther conspiracies and UFO hoo-hah. Then he joined The Epoch Times, one of the loudest voices in the pro-Trump mediasphere.
Out of context whispers of intelligence are like catnip to reporters and sometimes high ranking military officials weaponize it to advance their preferred policy positions.
The word “historic” gets tossed around to describe carefully scripted performances, “pseudo-events,” that we choose to treat as the stuff of history.
The New York Times published an op-ed by FDD staffer Richard Goldberg and didn’t bother to tell anyone that FDD paid him a salary while working for Trump’s National Security Council.