Feb

6

Just as every failure of Soviet communism was ascribed to anything BUT central planning…

Just as every bad Soviet harvest was blamed on weather…

Just as every evil to befall the Soviet people was blamed on foreign plots…

Just as markets were always cast as exploitive when they arose spontaneously to right the wrongs of the planners…

So this morning's New York Times whitewashes Mugabe's single-handed destruction of Zimbabwe by not once mentioning his power-mad authoritarianism and race-based lust for theft.

A front-page story that completely omits the central truth of its subject? Journalism historians would have to dig out Pravda's archive of the Brezhnev years for parallels.

This is important not because it's fun and easy to mock the once-august New York Times. It is important because, counterintuitively in the age of the web, there are powerful elements afoot that still believe they can get away with egregiously misrepresenting reality on a global scale.

Caveat reader.


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