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for the Bush regime, it is obviously the policy of the Times that these items be regularly produced and prominently placed in the paper. There are no accidents here, nor are his editors somehow asleep each time he somehow manages to get by their eagle eyes with yet another propaganda item. No, I think it is fair to suggest that these items are commissioned and placed through the direct intervention of the White House with the highest levels of the Times management.
Gordon is in my estimation a much better writer than Judith Miller, and because he is, he is able to put a more "journalistic" gloss on the propaganda he is commissioned to provide for the readers of the New York Times, and through them, for the nation and the world. But what he's doing is just as obvious as when he was teaming up with Miller back in the Good Old Days when everyone was breathlessly following every twist and turn of the "Curveball" saga.
Even the various Public Editors at the Times seem to be on to the scam. They call out the crap, but it has no discernable effect. One can be safe in assuming it has no effect because Gordon and his editors and the publisher of the Times are following their orders -- or at least their bliss -- in cooperating with, indeed enhancing, the White House propaganda efforts.
By now, the public should be very, very skeptical of any and all "news" articles that appear in the New York Times touting a Threat from Our New Enemies. The Times (and Michael Gordon in particular) should have no credibility in the public eye on these issues at all. They have blown it so badly and so consistently over such a long period of time, that whatever appears on the front page with Michael Gordon's byline should be instantly discounted and discredited -- simply because of the history of this paper and this writer with regard to the topic of Threats.
They... lie. Deliberately, with malice aforethought.
Pravda on the Hudson.
