{"id":176833,"date":"2020-03-10T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/10\/today-in-hack-journalism\/"},"modified":"2020-03-10T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T23:34:00","slug":"today-in-hack-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/10\/today-in-hack-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Hack Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> has a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/russian-interference-race.html\"> particularly egregious article about Russian meddling in elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the article is non specific threats related by, &#8220;American officials briefed on recent intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that there are some people sowing dissent, and maybe some people saying nice things about American Nazis,  (Maybe it&#8217;s those Nazis we should worry about) and possibly some bogus BLM groups.<\/p>\n<p>They never give specific groups, or posts. <\/p>\n<p>The <b>ONLY<\/b> specific actions mentioned in the article (actual quotes) wait until the last paragraph, and they are 1 story, and 2 OP\/EDs from the Kremlin owned RT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/482423-black-man-beaten-nypd-cops\/\"><i>RT<\/i> ran a story<\/a> about a video of New York police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2020\/03\/05\/nyregion\/ap-us-nyc-arrest-video.html\">arresting a black man<\/a> that sparked outrage.&#8221; (<i>New York Times<\/i> covered the story as well)<br \/><i><\/i><\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;&#8220;Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/477294-white-college-students-hate\/\">an article in January accusing The New York Times<\/a> of hating white people.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/478602-simpsons-cancel-apu-hank-azaria\/\">Criticizing Hank Azaria<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/25\/arts\/hank-azaria-simpsons-apu.html\">quitting as the voice<\/a> of Apu on \u201cThe Simpsons.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no reason that this editor should not have sent this back with a big red &#8220;<span style=\"color: red;\">BS<\/span>&#8221; on the cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a particularly egregious article about Russian meddling in elections. Most of the article is non specific threats related by, &#8220;American officials briefed on recent intelligence.&#8221; It&#8217;s just that there are some people sowing dissent, and maybe some people saying nice things about American Nazis, (Maybe it&#8217;s those Nazis we should &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[369,490,455,406,403],"class_list":["post-176833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-espionage","tag-hack-journalism","tag-russia","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}