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Blogging has been lighter than normal today -- Thanksgiving's approaching and there's much to do -- but it should be back to normal tomorrow.
In the mean time, via James Taranto, Chris Reed at the Spectator has the goods on the latest liftoff by Chris Hedges of the NYT.
Speaking to the Association of Opinion Page Editors meeting in Philly, Hedges said:
"We're absolutely reviled around the world, as we should be," Hedges said. "Our only friends are war criminals" -- a reference, he explained, to Ariel Sharon and Vladimir Putin.
Reed writes: America's amoral, bloodthirsty ways and the hate they generate would be much plainer to the American people, Hedges said, if only so many journalists weren't "trapped" by the government's war clichés and oriented to a Washington-centric view of the world. This group, he said, included his bosses at the Times.
"There was absolutely no interest in my newspaper in presenting the views of the French" as the U.S. moved toward war in Iraq, Hedges said. Instead, there was lots of guffawing over anti-French jokes, which he termed "racist."
Who knew? The New York Times' newsroom is a place where mockery of France is so severe that a heroic, hardy, death-defying war correspondent would consider it tantamount to workplace harassment.
Indeed. But given the liberal pedigree on the racially charged cartoons of Condi Rice I've been cataloguing, we might have guessed.
| Nov. 23, 2004 | 9:36 PM