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Allan Kulikoff's avatar

None of what Paul revels surprises me. I subscribe to both NYT the WaPo. It is surely important to know what your adversaries in the main-stream media think (and Paul does a superb job of showing us). Moreover, both papers have had superb analytical essays on the IDF genocide (only, of course, they use the passive voice, never, ever use the word "genocide, except to debunk it, and never telling their readers who is doing all the destruction---and why. Nor do they ever point to the American imperialism that sustains that genocide. Just the other day, two brave journalists (by American standards, which is very, very low), one Jewish-American, the other Palestinian American, tried to question Genocide Blinken; he refused---and being dragged out, screamed the truth, one asking him why he was not in the Hague [UN criminal court], the other telling him he had ruined Judaism by insisting that all Jews were Zionists. We are not; a few older ones, myself included, and many younger ones abhor the genocide, with a slogan "not in our name."

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Istvan Kash's avatar

I have a strange sort of insight on this. My wife joined a card playing group during the pandemic when they needed another player. My wife was invited due to her friendship with a coworker from the past who is wealthy, divorced and hooked up with someone even wealthier. We are not. But we have been invited to some gatherings with mostly other wealthy folks. The friend and her partner get the NYT. Their opinions and those of their friends are not left leaning. Even though they’re not a bunch of Trumper’s, they’re pretty hooked into their personal wellbeing and skeptical of stuff that is outside their bubble. They still think the US is the greatest. No focus on genocide or the impending fascism coming down the pike.

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