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Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times -- Explains Why 'Paper of Record' Is Pure Propaganda

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A front-page article is devoted to a flawed story about a campus rape in the journal Rolling Stone, exposed in the leading academic journal of media critique. So severe is this departure from journalistic integrity that it is also the subject of the lead story in the business section, with a full inside page devoted to the continuation of the two reports. The shocked reports refer to several past crimes of the press: a few cases of fabrication, quickly exposed, and cases of plagiarism ("too numerous to list"). The specific crime of Rolling Stone is "lack of skepticism," which is "in many ways the most insidious" of the three categories.
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