The NY Times’ Ostrich Act on JFK Assassination Getting Old

AlterNet, whowhatwhy.com by Russ Baker | Aug. 2, 2011 (News Analysis)

How to explain this see-no-evil act? There are many reasons that news organizations will not tell the whole story, or fudge what could be revealed. Whatever is behind this shameful failure, reporters and editors know that the JFK assassination is just “too hot to handle,” that it is a kind of electrified third rail that can destroy a journalism career. But even well-founded fear—of being ridiculed, marginalized, demoted, or otherwise penalized—is ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 3, 2011 - 9:25 AM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 3, 2011

The article questions the journalistic ethics of the NYT, and implicitly, the rest of the mainstream press, for failure to investigate and report on the conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. The failure to report on rich, ruthless right wing forces willing to murder presidents may explain much of the cowardice that has been evident in that office ever since.

I strongly recommend the book "JFK and the Unspeakable; Why He Died, and Why it Matters" by James W. Douglass. Shortly after the assassination, many potential witnesses began showing up dead, such as Lee Harvey Oswald and George de Mohrenschildt mentioned here by Russ Baker. As a result, many potential witnesses went silent. Douglass found and interviewed many of the surviving witnesses years later and got the stories of many of them. Revisit the coverup from the 1963 ... More »

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