Does anyone actually read The New York Times anymore? I guess someone does because the newspaper is still around. Then again, they could just have advertisers paying for ads to keep the paper afloat even if no one is reading it anymore.
And make no mistake, very few people looking for actual news are reading the Times these days. Many of those people who do still read the Times are typically reading it purely for entertainment value (as in laughing at it) or to point out to people who have better things to do than to go looking for propaganda to read that propaganda is still being put out there.
It’s that latter situation that we find ourselves in today. We’re pointing out how ludicrous a recent piece published by the Times is. Lee Williams writes,
On Monday, the Times published what is perhaps the most anti-gun news story seen in years. It was written by reporter Glenn Thrush, who started at the newspaper in 2017 and claimed in his bio that his most “fulfilling assignment” was writing obituaries, which is odd. Writing about the recently departed is far from fulfilling.
Thrush’s story was titled “Trump Administration to Roll Back Array of Gun Control Measures.” The array was described as a reversal of the strict gun control rules Joe Biden ordered “to stem the flood of unregulated semiautomatic handguns and rifles.”
If you look closely at Thrush’s story, you will find factual errors and anti-gun hyperbole in nearly every paragraph. For example, Thrush wrote that gun dealers stripped of the Federal Firearm Licenses by Biden’s crazy zero-tolerance policy were “found to have repeatedly violated federal laws and regulations.”
This is far from the truth.
Williams continues by pointing out how Thrush claims that Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, took a DOJ investigative unit off of investigating racial discrimination to use against the LAPD over gun issues, even though there isn’t any evidence of “repurposing,” only that she has to obey the law which mandates looking into alleged LAPD violations of Second Amendment rights.
And, then, Thrush uses folks at Giffords as a source without actually getting the perspective from someone who understands both firearms and the law.
It’s appalling.
But it’s exactly this kind of clownish behavior that has caused the decline in influence of the mainstream legacy media.
People want the truth so that they can make up their own minds on an issue. They don’t want blatant, baseless propaganda anymore.
