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| New York Times remembers 9/11 as the day airplanes became sentient and killed 2,000 |
| 2019-09-12 |
| [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] I count at least two problems in this since-deleted tweet. First, there is no mention of who carried out the 9/11 attacks or what motivated them. That is like writing a headline memorializing the Aug. 3 El Paso, Texas, mass shooting and not once mentioning that there was a white nationalist gunman involved. Second, and I hate to be the one to say this, airplanes lack agency. They did not take aim or crash themselves. The snuffies flying them did. In case you think the Times’ bizarre choice of words Wednesday morning is due to the limitations of Twitter, I am here to disabuse you of that notion. The report that this tweet linked to, titled "Remembering Those Lost 18 Years Ago on 9/11," had all the same issues. The article's second paragraph read originally: "Eighteen years have passed since airplanes took aim at the World Trade Center and brought them down." There were also no mentions of the words "terror," "terrorist," or "terrorists" anywhere in the body of the story as it appeared originally on the Times’ website. The closest the report came to mentioning the ill intent behind Sept. 11 was when it recalls Mayor Rudy Giuliani "was heralded for his leadership as mayor of New York when it was attacked." So at least there is an admission that it was an attack, although there is no explicit admission that it was an attack by people. It might as well have been an earthquake. In its original publishing, the report's sole mention of "terror" appeared in its subhead, but nowhere in the story itself. I am not alone in thinking this is all rather absurd. The Times editors appear to agree, at least once scolded. The article now includes at least two references to terrorism. The report's second paragraph now reads, "Eighteen years have passed since snuffies commandeered airplanes to take aim at the World Trade Center and bring them down." Considering the role that terrorism played in the attacks, and the way in which terror shaped U.S. foreign and domestic policy for the next 18 years, it must have taken the writers more effort not to mention terrorism in an article detailing Sept. 11 memorial events than to mention it. And the readers, unwilling to spend so much energy blinding themselves about the story, had to point out the problems. You just have to wonder to yourself: What is the motive behind all that effort? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Once again the media reflects the ultimate denial or distortion of reality. They claim that planes killed nearly 3000 people on 9/11, denying that radical Muslims killed these people. Similar attitudes are shown by the MSM when it comes to mass shootings as reflected in “guns kill people and we must control firearms” rather than acknowledging that people shoot people. For some reason, the exception is climate change where people are at fault according to the MSM rather than climate change being a natural process that has occurred over eons of time. Were it not for climate change, we’d be living in the Ice Age. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-09-12 10:43 |
| #3 Well, if guns kill people why airplanes can't? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-12 06:10 |
| #2 Am I allowed to think Timothy McVeigh hit the wrong building? |
| Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 2019-09-12 06:09 |
| #1 The motive is obvious: Own the narrative. Or what NYT Editor Dean Baquet calls "the story." As Baquet stated clearly in the recent NYT staff meeting, "the story" was Russiagate, and when that failed, "the story changed" to all racism, all the time. There is no way to be honest, accurate and intelligent and still fit an account of jihadi mass murder into the latest NYT "story." Hence the absurd contortions. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-09-12 00:44 |