The New York Times, oh how ye mighty have fallen.
It's no news that the New York Times is often vastly out of touch with the common man, however, what is of great interest is the recent trend of the once acclaimed periodical to claim outright lies, in order to appease their liberal agenda.
Most recently, us merry few in the videogame industry have seen their failings in the misappropriate citations from this very website(VGChartz.com), indicating that the Wii, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, sells very little software. The article's assertion wasn't that the Wii doesn't sell "Third Party Software," which is a defendable assertion, but that the console overall sells less software then its competition, which is an outright and provable lie. If one were to read the article, they would believe the Wii was in dire circumstances, again laughable.
A recent episode of The O'reilly Factor(a program that I watch along with many liberal primetime news shows in order to get a fair and balanced perspective on a plethora of subjects) informed me of what I can only describe as the latest affront to public perception, and an insult to even minded individuals everywhere.
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/fox-news-ratings-show-erosion/
On June the 28th, the NYT reported that the Fox News Channel was in a, morbidly worded, "ominous" ratings trend. As inflamatory and incorrect as the article was(like the Wii article, an obivous hit piece, as Fox News is literally dominating the ratings, and their YoY numbers are actually up, ominous indeed), what was even more appauling was the NYT's hypocritical behavior immediately afterwards.
When the Fox morning news show, "Fox and Friends" had the audacity to defend itself from the defamation, they used what we refer to as a charactiture of the article's author, as reported by the left leaning and NYT sympathetic Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/02/fox-news-photoshops-pictu_n_110486.html
How dare Fox News have the audacity to defend itself from untrue alligations, in such a mocking and divisive manner.
However, what is, in this author's opinion, one of the most hypocritical turns in recent memory, the New York Times, and other dedicated far left orginazations have begun to raise what amounts to a "stink" over this photo, claiming it is unprofessional journalism.
As laughable as it is that the New York Times is accusing someone else of unprofessional journalism, it has been pointed out by many that the New York Times itself often uses charactitures of figures they don't like very much, and none of them are flattering. For instance, this was drawn up for the release of the book Culture Warrior as a charactitures of its author Bill O'reilly as pointed out by the man himself, regarding this very situation.
Not to mention that the morning show "Fox and Friends" is a commentary based television program dealing mostly with humor and the "starting your day" theme, like previous shows in the genre akin to Regis and Kathie Lee.
Attack campaigns, even on those you hate, are wrong when your attack consists of outright misinformation. It's sad that a once great periodical like The New York Times has now been reduced to mere far left fanboys, in their partnership with never great hate-sites like The Huffington Post, and MoveOn.org, amongst whom their greatest claims to fame have been calling American generals liars, and cheering the deaths, injuries, or cancers of right leaning figures like Nancy Regan, Tony Snow, and Charlton Heston.
Congratulations, New York Times, your consistantly shoddy work, partison bias, hypocrisy, and viscious slander have actually succeeded in making the United States a worse place to live. You've destroyed your own credibility in an attempt to discredit your enemies, and at a glance, no human being should take the word of anything written in your "News" paper as the truth, ever again.
My name is Oxymandius, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Article and Commentary by Josh Pettit
aka: ZenfoldorVGI
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
