Tag: NYT: Syria-Sarin Claims

NOVANEWS By Robert Parry | Consortium News  In the old days of journalism, we were taught that there were almost always two sides to a story, if not more sides than that. Indeed, part of the professional challenge of journalism was to sort out conflicting facts on a complicated topic. Often we found that the initial impression of a story was wrong once we understood the more nuanced reality. Today, however, particularly on foreign policy issues, the major U.S. news outlets, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, apparently believe there is only one side to a story, the one espoused by the U.S. government or more generically the Establishment. Any other interpretation of a set of facts gets dismissed as “fringe” or “fake news” even if there are obvious holes in the official ...