Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Parsing The New York Times

Part 1

It is the world's oldest systems virus. It began more than 50 years ago in the deadwood edition of The New York Times and became so welded to its host that it was grandfathered into the digital age without its dirty volume even being detected. No attempt has ever been made to remove the virus because those in a position to do so are unaware of its existence, indifferent to it, or, more likely, invested in it as a vital marker of its institutional identity as well as its oldest extant reportorial tradition.

The virus is still unnamed. It ought to be called the "Herbert Matthews Virus" after its creator, although that wouldn't help to identify it since the only ones who've heard about his fictional writings on The Times' front page are old Timesmen and Cubans. The Times' exaltation of Fidel Castro and concomitant degradation of the Cuban people — for one can hardly idolize Castro without showing at the same time the greatest contempt for his victims — has outlasted by decades its erstwhile infatuation with Stalin, whose crimes it concealed until Khrushchev finally acknowledged them (in part) after Stalin's death, which is to say, it was the Soviets who broke the pact of silence to which The Times had faithfully subscribed since the days of Walter Duranty; otherwise, we should still be reading its glowing reports on the success of yet another Five-Year Plan (but not about the 10 million lives it cost).

In the case of Hitler, too, The Times downplayed his targeting of Jews and did not report on the concentration camps until the day they were liberated though it knew about their existence long before. Better that Europe's Jews should perish than The Times' Jewish owners be ostracized as Zionist propagandists by this country's own (non-lethal) anti-Semites. The irony, of course, is that Germany's assimilated Jews fared no better than their Orthodox co-religionists at the hands of the Nazis. Still, for the Ochs-Sulzbergers, 100% Americanism meant emulating the callous unconcern of the bigots and feeding the sense of invulnerability of their enemies.

Nevertheless, The Times did not thrust Stalin on Russia, or Hitler on Germany. Fidel Castro, however, is entirely its creation. The Eisenhower State Department took its cues on Castro from The Times and enthroned the "Jeffersonian democrat" of Matthews' imagination. If Billy the Kid had entertained wider ambitions and lived a little longer, The Times might have catapulted him into the White House. The only difference is that Billy wasn't an ideologue and consequently killed much fewer people.

When will The New York Times admit its complicity in Cuba's ruin or even just Cuba's ruin? The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution presented them with just such an occasion. So did the 1st, the 5th, the 10th, the 20th, the 25th ... well, any year in the last fifty. Will it wait till the Cuban Khrushchev denounces the Cuban Stalin? Or must we wait for the excavation of Cuba's Killing Fields before The Times awakens to the truth? Perhaps not even then. Walter Duranty's portrait still hangs in its offices with those of its other Pulitzer Prize winners. Herbert Matthews never won a Pulitzer Prize which is the reason his portrait isn't in the gallery.

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[In Part 2, I will review an entire issue of The New York Times for biased, inaccurate or tendentious reporting on Cuba, tracing the entire course of the "HM Virus" through its system].

73 comments:

  1. Herbert Matthews= Manuel A Tellechea

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  2. Thanks Manuel. Good Post.

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  3. Manuel:

    Seems to me that the New York Times is a giant of disinformation, what is the use of a newspaper if it does not bother to report the truth? woe to those who bother to read it.

    The HM virus is as good as any explanation as to what ails the times, I was shocked to learn it's owners are Jewish, yet they didn't utter a world while their brethen was dying in the gas chambers of Eastern Europe. Shocking!

    They owe Cuba and Cubans a heartfelt apology, and come to terms with the damage they have done, really us exiles should sue them!!

    BTW welcome back, you had me worried, hope all is well with you and your world.

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  4. Manuel , I'm so glad to have you back just in time before Obama takes the Blair House

    Welcome

    We missed ya

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  5. CJB-BCJ said...

    Blog administrator, perhaps you do not know it, but Fantomas is well known thru the Cuban themed blogs for his trolling and has been banned from many of those blogs, reliable sources from Cuba's underground resistance have exposed him for being a liar, amongst many things about his identity, his father is a long time member of Cuba's communist party, he joined long before Castro became known, he has been a member since his youth in the 1940s, Fantomas whose name is Javier, was a party member who was expelled because of his excessive homosexual indiscretions, even his father approved of the forced migration, Fantomas has been a low level member of Cuba's DGI since they relocated him from Ohio to Puerto Rico, where he was eventually assigned as an adjuttant to Jay Martinez (fake identity) and as a 24 hr operational disruptor of the exiled blogs. You should be aware of this and that there are many members of the Cuban underground resistance who are outside Cuba keeping tabs on Fantomas and his superior.

    You have herein been duly informed, you may find much about Fantomas by his outing at Black Sheep of Exile, Kill Castro - A War Blog, Babalublog, Penultimos Dias, Morais' Blog, Claudia for Libertad and Cuban-American Pundits, he has been banned from all of them; at Review of Cuban-American Blogs (RCAB) the administrator, Mr. Manuel A. Tellechea allows him to comment freely, just as he does with anyone else, for Mr. Tellechea is a firm believer in freedom of speech, at times however, he has had to banish Fantomas' comments to what he calls The Mad House and also to The Mad House Annex, efforts focused on forcing Fantomas to behave civily, Fantomas nevertheless repays Mr. Tellechea by trolling under multitudes of blogger identities and also anonymously. This information is provided to you to inform you and to allow you to verify on your own what has been indicated on the previous paragraph,

    Good day and beware of communist infiltrators.

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  6. Fantomas es el amo de mil fingimientos y el líder de un ejército inmenso de alabadores. Sus espías y secuaces estan por todas partes del mundo , regando las semillas del caos y el terror con la justificación real de la necesidad de un Gran Cambio en Cuba. Fantomas era cualquiera y simultáneamente era nadie; estaba por todas partes y en ningún lugar. Iba por la vida emprendiendo una guerra implacable contra la dictadura castrista que lo engendrara, y de la cual no podía escapar al no poder renegar la debacle del sistema. Fantomas retorcía brillantemente la energía ambivalente de su idealismo ideológico, y la proyectaba políticamente lejos de sí mismo hacía quienes, al contrario del modo que él alcanzó su ego luminoso y perfecto, debían adoptar de manera compulsiva e incondicional sus sueños sociales espartanos. Él era, finalmente, el Máximo Maestro en manipular el principio maquiavelista “¡haz lo que yo digo, y no lo que yo hago!”

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  7. Vana, check the box and remember the number I gave you back in the summer of 2008, keep it handy for it will be useful to the end that you asked me about a few days ago, all the numbers come into play perfectly, thanks.

    Anonymous @ 6:57 PM. Where was that message from the CJBs posted? thanks, whomever you are.

    I'm listening to the Babalublog Radio Hour at BTR as I write, pretty good topic tonight.

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  8. Black Sheep of Exile, Kill Castro - A War Blog, Babalublog, , Morais' Blog, Claudia for Libertad and Cuban-American Pundits

    English themed blogs, who the fuck cares in Cuba? Nobody reads them there

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  9. I'm listening to the Babalublog Radio Hour at BTR as I write, pretty good topic tonight.


    There was only one listener to that show tonight

    Was it you Angel

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  10. There were eight listeners, including me, when I checked in, the lowest number of listeners at the time the program was ended as a live stream were five, you may be confusing the number of actual listeners who were at BTR with the registered usual listener whose icon is on the list, their program usually has anonymous actual listeners, at least the few times when I've been able to check in while the program is in real time, usually I do not have the time to do so, which is why I usually download it from the archive. Fair enough anonymous Fantomas?

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  11. Angel Garzon = Manuel " sitemeter" Tellechea

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  12. Angel , do you have a normal life besides blogging

    Dont you like gardening, bird watching, reading a good book, a great movie

    Please amuse me with your answer

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  13. Enrique, I am not Manuel and I do not need to have access to RCAB's Site meter data in order to able to tell when you are commenting, discerning the characteristics of a person's writing style is not difficult, not to me anyway. BTW, I know that you were the commentator that pasted the CJB's comment at 6:57 PM today, your style is all over it, it screams "look at me, please, look at me", you still have no clue as to who you're messing with. I could easily find where you copied the comment from, but, I was hoping that at least once, you would had been honest and forthcoming, foolish hope, apparently.

    People who live in glass houses.... says the adage, you ought to get a woman Enrique, instead of making a fool of yourself all over the Blogosphere 24/7/365 1/4 ~, consider this the last time that I will address you in 2009, barring a public humiliation where I'd be glad to be a witness against you, if the people who claim to be watching you carry through with their warnings to you, you may not see the summer of this year, in that case I'd be one of the millions who would gladly say, good riddance.

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  14. Angel Garzon = Comemierda

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  15. Angel:

    Sorry, read your message, but am having trouble with sending messages, will try to get back to you tomorrow

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  16. NYT + MSM = Weak!

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  17. Angel, that message was posted on Tomas Esstrada-Palma's blog.

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  18. The left doesn't care about the Cuban people, they only care about keeping Fidel propped up as an anti-US figurehead. If the Cuban people have to suffer and die as a result, so be it. When freedom comes to Cuba, I hope that these "journalists" will be called to account for their role in oppressing the Cuban people.

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