And the NYT never gets used as a tool of corporate or ... spin?
Let's just say if I were doing historical research I would look for some other local accounts to compare with the NYT.
But arguing about it here is pointless because I already said what happened at one place does not make any case about the whole system.
DC
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote:
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> Given that articles in the modern NYT sometimes have a tenuous relationship
>> with what actually happened, I am inclined to approach thesea ccounts with
>> skepticism: I bet the protests were more about food and conditions than
>> the
>> NYT let on. I think this partly because of the number of folks disciplined
>> and partly becaue the food issue keeps coming up without any detail.
>>
>> That is not necessarily jack-booted fascism but could be, at least at this
>> one location, closer to forced labor than propagandists would like to
>> admit.
>>
>
> So we have:
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> * two newspaper articles
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> * an account from the sectarian press
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> and
>
> * a feeling.
>
> I know which my standards of evidence prefer.
>
> In any case, the NYT says they weren't forced to work, they got kicked out
> of the CCC because they wouldn't go to bed at 11.
>
> Doug
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