The reporter wrote: “Even though we are not there, we can still produce ambitious investigative journalism that holds the Iranian government to account.”
Torbati’s premise seems to be that when a country is undergoing an unprovoked attack from two nuclear powers, facing explicit threats of genocide and promises of war crimes, the prime mission of foreign journalists is not to witness the devastation being inflicted, but to deliver “accountability reporting” on that country’s “authoritarian government.”
Meanwhile, FAIR has repeatedly documented the New York Times‘ failure to “deliver strong accountability reporting” on Israel’s apartheid government, despite the large number of journalists it has based there.
The NYT failed in its coverage of the Iraq War, the NYT has failed in its coverage of the Gaza Genocide and the NYT has failed in its coverage of the Iran War.
Why is anyone still reading the NYT? You cannot trust you aren’t being deeply manipulated and held to blindspots you aren’t even aware of by editorial design.
NYT is a propaganda tube, it has nothing to do with journalism
If you don’t say anything, nobody will call you out for lying. Even if lying by omission is a thing.
