{"id":15306,"date":"2017-04-16T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=15306"},"modified":"2017-04-16T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T15:33:03","slug":"the-new-york-times-bret-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-new-york-times-bret-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times &#038; Bret Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15310\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15310\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15310 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/nyt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"230\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 346px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 346\/230;\" \/><\/a>We have just now\u00a0cancelled\u00a0our subscription to the New York Times. While we had no illusions as to the reactionary sides of the NYT, &amp; despite some valuable reporting in the age of Trump, the \u201cnewspaper of record\u201d\u2019s hiring this past week of Bret Stephens, a rabid climate change denier, was the last straw: no more NYT in our house! Asked about this hiring, the\u00a0 paper offered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/bret-stephens-new-york-times_us_58f12c80e4b0b9e9848bed3e\">stunning defense<\/a>: There are \u201cmillions of people who agree with him.\u201d As Joe Romm wrote on ThinkProgress: \u201cWith that \u2018logic\u2019, the Times could hire as a columnist former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke\u200a\u2014\u200aor a flat earther or someone who thinks vaccines pose a health hazard. After all, millions agree with them. This defense is especially absurd since, as I <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/new-york-times-hires-extreme-climate-denier-after-hyping-itself-as-antidote-to-fake-news-441826c4071d\">detailed Friday<\/a>, the Times has been running a major ad campaign claiming there is no alternative to the truth\u200a\u2014\u200aand former Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor Stephens has repeatedly dismissed as \u201cimaginary\u201d the climate reality reported on every week by the Times\u2019 own journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;ve been putting up with the Times&#8217; 3rd-class reporting on literary matters (cf my <a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=15202\">blog post of 5 march<\/a>) for many years now, but when the Times decides to join the Fake News crowd \u2014 basta! \u00a0Fire\u00a0Bret Stephens right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just now\u00a0cancelled\u00a0our subscription to the New York Times. While we had no illusions as to the reactionary sides of the NYT, &amp; despite some valuable reporting in the age of Trump, the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[555],"class_list":["post-15306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15311,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306\/revisions\/15311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}