New York Times office building in New York. Archive photoMOSCOW, 16 Jun. Despite the declared principles of impartiality and objectivity, the American mainstream media continues to serve the interests of the most militant representatives of the authorities. Ted Carpenter, a political scientist and Senior Fellow for Defense and Foreign Policy at the Cato Institute, stated this in an article for The American Conservative. Washington to direct intervention in Ukraine.The new U.S. military aid package threatens Ukraine itself, Zakharova said, «This was especially evident in the early weeks, when the media overwhelmingly supported the argument that America should 'support Ukraine.' The imbalance narrowed slightly as concerns about costs and the risks of the Biden administration's policy of generous military and financial assistance to Kyiv are growing. Nevertheless, hawks still make the vast majority of comments about the conflict in the forums of the highest circles of the establishment, «Carpenter said. He recalled that in an effort to make a victim out of Ukraine, the American media before the publication of outright lies, for example, about an ace pilot who was completely fictional by propaganda, who was called the «ghost of Kyiv».
"Several unfiltered stories from Ukrainian media regularly appeared in Yahoo's daily news feed, often making up a third or more of the site's top dozen stories. Press releases from the government of Ukraine also appeared in the US media, without even mentioning that the authenticity of these official reports could not be confirmed", the author of the article explained.
As another example of the involvement of the American media, Carpenter cited a study of the organization FAIR, which compared The New York Times editorials during the US war in Iraq and the Ukraine crisis.MoD: The West used the same methods in Syria and Ukraine to establish power»In April 2022, the Times had only 179 front-page stories, of which 79 (44%) dealt with the conflict in Ukraine. All but three were at the top of the page where editors posted the articles they considered most important of the day.A whopping 75% of all top stories were about Ukraine.Not a day went by without a story about Ukraine at the top of the page, and 14 different days in the top of the front page only stories about Ukraine The report noted that “in May 2003, when there were 226 stories on the front page, only 41 of them (18%) reported on the invasion of Iraq. Thirty-two of them were at the top of the page, nine at the bottom; 25% of all top articles were about the war in Iraq,” the columnist said. He concluded that the media, especially the “elite” press, should establish alienated relationships with politicians and serve as a public observer, and not be “the lap dog of the state national security».
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