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November 24, 2004
I Hate America by Chris Hedges
The American Spectator reports that Chris Hedges, of the New York Times, gave a speech at the annual conference of the Association of Opinion Page Editors. In that speech, he blasted his own paper for its failure to be sufficiently anti-American:
"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.
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."
Jeepers. Imagine that! I had no idea that the NY Times would be so anti-french that any warm and mushy, human rights loving, caring and sharing liberal would consider it a hostile work environment.
What is this country coming to?
Posted by LindaSoG at November 24, 2004 07:43 AM