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2014-06-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Long history of this sort of thing. Buried by the Times is a book by Laurel Leff that argues that the NYT buried articles about Nazi atrocities against Jews in the back pages. Apparently the publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, was conflicted about his Jewishness. Maybe something he had in common with Hitler.

Fiction writers couldn't make this stuff up.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-05 12:03|| 2014-06-05 12:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The really sad thing, from my perspective, is that my mother's first husband -- the one who died from cancer contracted as a result of volunteering as a medic on the first ship that got to Japan, which meant that he was medicking in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as soon as they were secured -- was a first or second cousin to one of the NYT's board members at the time of the war. Long and winding story short, said board member was privy to the reasons Mama's first husband and his parents fled Germany, and the varied stops they made to get to America, where my would-have-been father volunteered for the Navy in order to secure safety in America for his parents.

So it wasn't that they didn't know, at the top levels of the New York Times, newspaper of record. It's that they were safe, and they pulled the ladder up after them so that their safety would not be threatened.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-05 18:26|| 2014-06-05 18:26|| Front Page Top

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