Former NYT Reporter Bill McGowan Blasts Paper’s ‘Propagandizing’
The New York Times is fascinating in how closely it mirrors American liberalism – both in its politics and in its intellectual evolution. Like the American left, the Times has moved from the intellectual and patriotic liberalism of Jack Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan to the politically correct, post-American leftism that dominates what today we call “liberalism” – a term now completely unmoored from its etymology. Veteran journalist Bill McGowan, a former Times reporter, a long-time reader, and author of the new book ” Gray Lady Down “, elaborated on the Times's political evolution in a recent interview with PJM's Ed Driscoll. “At a certain point,” McGowan told Driscoll in discussing the Times's 1960s-style, counter-cultural skew, “you just have to say, this is not reporting. This is propagandizing.” read more
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Former NYT Reporter Bill McGowan Blasts Paper’s ‘Propagandizing’
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