PM Carpenter: NYT slips into FOXism

August 09, 2005

Sometimes you run across a newspaper “analysis” whose resemblance to a FOX news story leaves you slackjawed - a story whose omissions define it more than the content. One expects this level of print journalism in the administration’s unofficial outlets of the Washington Times and Wall Street Journal’s editorial page - but in the New York Times?

Such an analytical piece - “Where are the war heroes?” - appeared Sunday. The Times thought you might like to know why “the military, the White House and the culture at large have not publicized [heroes’] actions with the zeal that was lavished on the heroes of World War I and World War II.”