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2020-01-13 Home Front: WoT
In Wake Of Soleimani Hit, One NYT Reporter Amplified Iranian Propaganda
[Daily Caller] In the days following the Jan. 2 strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, one New York Times journalist in particular became the focus of criticism for consistently amplifying Iranian messaging.

The journalist was by no means an isolated case. Iranian propaganda and propagandists managed to get air time on CNN, Yahoo, the NYT and Washington Post, among other outlets, and a fake American death toll that made headlines on MSNBC was actually sourced directly to Iranian media. Above it all though was New York Times reporter Farnaz Fassihi.

Fassihi’s aggressive dissemination of Iranian messaging started almost immediately after the Jan. 2 strike that killed Soleimani. She began Jan. 3 by peddling "unconfirmed reports" of "ballistic missiles hitting" Ain Al-Assad, the largest U.S. military base. There was no attack at that time.

NY Post reporter Jonathan Levine called her out when she later followed up to say the initial reports were false. Under pressure, Fassihi later deleted the tweet.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-13 09:33|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran Proxies 

#1 We're lucky Trump wasn't President during WWII. The press would have been totally rooting for the Germans. Orange Man Bad!
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-13 10:07||   2020-01-13 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 At the time you could've has the lot of them shot.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-13 10:13||   2020-01-13 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 There isn't a murderous, anti-American thug the left doesn't love.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-13 10:17||   2020-01-13 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Vlad?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-13 10:26||   2020-01-13 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 They were all in a massive circle jerk over him during Obumble and Hillary's "reset" of relations.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-13 10:29||   2020-01-13 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Unregistered agent of a foreign government? Form a grand jury in Salt Lake City to check into to this.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-13 10:32||   2020-01-13 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 We're lucky Trump wasn't President during WWII.

I dunno. If Trump had been president back then, the main drag in front of the Kremlin might be G.S. Patton Boulevard.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-13 10:34||   2020-01-13 10:34|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-13 10:43||   2020-01-13 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 We are in "I must drop my mask before Trump rips it away" times.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-13 12:19||   2020-01-13 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 NYT poll - Which individual of untimely demise would you most like to see re-animated?

Lenin
Stalin
Trotsky
Mao
Pol Pot
General Giap
Che Guevara
Anastasia Somoza
Nicole Ceaucescu
Fidel Castro
Eva Peron
Ted Bundy
Jeffrey Daumer
Jeffrey Epstein
Write in
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-13 14:17||   2020-01-13 14:17|| Front Page Top

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