The New York Times has become the epitome of fake news.
During James Comey’s recent testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, he called out the NYT for publishing a vehemently false story.
In Comey’s testimony, the former FBI Director was asked if he had read the NYT article entitled, “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.”
Comey simply responded, “Yep.”
And then he was asked, “That report by The New York Times was not true. Is that a fair statement?”
Comey called it mostly false, and talked about the media’s role in society, saying:
“The challenge — and I’m not picking on reporters — about writing stories about classified information is that people talking about it often don’t really know what is going on.
And those of us who actually know what’s going on aren’t talking about it. And we don’t call the press to say, hey, you got that thing wrong about this sensitive topic. We just have to leave it there.”
The NYT doesn’t care if it isn’t true. They only care about perpetuating their liberal agenda to its readers.
And the NYT is once again involved in a ridiculously absurd fake news story where they heinously blamed Sarah Palin for instigating a horribly violent act.
Breitbart reports:
“The New York Times issued an online correction Thursday to its lead editorial, which claimed that Sarah Palin had incited Jared Loughner to commit the mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011 that killed six and wounded Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ).
The editorial was a response to the shooting Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, in which gunman James T. Hodgkinson targeted Republican members of Congress at a baseball practice. Four players were wounded, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), who remains in the hospital in critical condition.
Originally, the Times article, “America’s Lethal Politics,” had stated:
Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably.
In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, the link to political incitement was clear.
Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.
It also added that ‘there’s no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack’ in Wednesday’s shooting.
As Breitbart News explained Wednesday evening, after the editorial was published online, all of the Times‘ factual claims above were false.
Now, the article reads:
Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably.
In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl.
At the time, we and others were sharply critical of the heated political rhetoric on the right.
Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs. But in that case no connection to the shooting was ever established.
A correction now appears at the bottom of the article:
Correction: June 15, 2017.
An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a link existed between political incitement and the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords. In fact, no such link was established.
The Times came under intense criticism in conservative media for its ‘fake news’ editorial.”
The media used to have an obligation to report the news as real news, not perpetuating sensationalism at the expense of the truth.
None of that matters to the liberal mainstream media anymore – and it needs to stop immediately.
Same ole nonsense from the New York Slimes.