I have used an online database of the New York Times through 2012 to search for mentions of Lew Rockwell for the period 2000-2012. There is a single article about Ron Paul dated Dec. 26, 2011 in which Lew Rockwell is mentioned and quoted. The article title is “Paul Disowns Extremists’ Views But Doesn’t Disavow the Support”. Gary North is cited once on Feb. 5, 2006 for his 427th article on LewRockwell.com, “The Ph.D. Glut Revisited”. Another mention of LewRockwell.com appears on May 10, 2009 in an article about Miles Woolley, an “outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, posting thoughts on a libertarian Web site, LewRockwell.com…”
Infowars has 3 mentions in the entire record. April 7, 2009 is the first. An accused killer of three policemen in Pittsburgh had posted on Infowars and Stormfront. The second article, May 1, 2011, is titled “Conspiracies Are Us”. The third article, Feb. 16, 2010, is titled “Lighting a Fuse for Rebellion on the Right: Loose Alliances of Protesters Join Under Tea Party Umbrella”.
Both LewRockwell.com and Infowars generate thousands of article, and many are newsworthy and noteworthy. They get cited elsewhere. They get reproduced elsewhere. But the New York Times all but makes them invisible, and when it does mention them, the context is negative.
The New York Times discriminates against LewRockwell.com and Infowars.
When the Times interviewed Walter Block, it managed to misrepresent his views in a reprehensible way. He sued.
The New York Times is biased. It transmitted obvious propaganda favoring war with Iraq. It swallowed the government line, hook, line and sinker. It’s biased in favor of statism. On May 26, 2004, it issued a half-hearted apology. It still failed to take full responsibility for its murderous reporting. The Times learned nothing from the Iraq invasion. Its Libya reporting on the run-up to the NATO-American invasion of Libya parroted the government line. It printed the government’s view in an opinion piece co-written by Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy. Where were any citations to those who recognized even before these aggressors began to bomb Libya that the West was again intent on destroying a country and wrecking a state? Has the Times yet published the Hillary Clinton documents leaked by Wikileaks that indicate what the true tawdry motives of Sarkozy really were? The year 2016 is not on the database that I can access; a Google search for a Times article on this topic came up empty, but there were plenty of alternative media sources that got into the motives for the aggression against Libya.
12:55 pm on February 20, 2017
