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on March 15, 2017 in World News

Hungary Responds to New York Times Coverage of Migrant Crisis: ‘You Just Don’t Get It’

by Jack Montgomery Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has responded to accusations of wrongdoing by “ivory tower” editors at The New York Times by saying that they “just don’t get” the European migrant crisis. The newspaper’s editorial board claimed that Prime Minister Orbán was “playing the European Union for a patsy” on 13 March, urging the bloc’s central authorities to take action against his government. “It’s easy to be charmed by the human rights nonsense when you’re penning editorials from an office in Midtown Manhattan,” replied Kovács on an official government blog post.  “But we’re running a government responsible… View Article

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on March 15, 2017 in World News

Meet Ian Buruma, the New York Times’ Favorite Whitewasher of Islam

By Bruce Bawer Over forty years ago, in The Painted Word, Tom Wolfe aptly described the Sunday edition of the New York Times as “that great public bath, that vat, that spa, that regional physiotherapy tank, that White Sulphur Springs, that Marienbad, that Ganges, that River Jordan for a million souls” — an object into which one submerges oneself, “weightless, suspended in the tepid depths of the thing.” Which is an elaborate way of saying that the Gray Lady, while occasionally, perhaps, running an op-ed that questions its editors’ own opinions, strives not to mount a serious challenge to the… View Article

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