Cowardly NY Times: ‘Anti-Islamist’ for France to Condemn Decapitation
The New York Times continues its cowardly tradition of refusing to accurately label incidents of Islamic terrorism. The lead International section story by Adam Nossiter, on an Islamic terrorist decapitating a school teacher for showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad to his class, featured this anodyne headline: “Man Kills Teacher In Paris Suburb, Decapitating Him.” The subhead was no more…
NYT Takes as Fact France’s 'Neglect, Hostility' of Refugees
New York Times’ journalist Adam Nossiter let some righteous pro-refugee anger seep into his Wednesday report from Paris, “France Ordered to Provide Bare Essentials for Migrants -- Policies Assailed As ‘Degrading.’” Nossiter certainly sounded more like an advocate than reporter in his lead: "After banking on neglect, hostility and mistreatment to discourage a steady trickle of migrants, the new…
NYT Again Downplays Islamic Terror in Initial Paris Coverage
The terrorist shootings and bombings that murdered over 100 people in Paris on Friday were carried out by the group known as ISIS (Islamic State), but there was little discussion of Islam in the front-page coverage of the massacres in Saturday's New York Times. The paper demonstrated an unseemly reluctance to talk seriously about the probable identification of the terrorists, despite their own…
