When is Oliver Stone going to learn the lesson? All he has to do to get on with the NYT is lie, baby, lie. Like all their journalists do. The ‘one-sided presentation’ has become an art form in the hands of this formerly great paper which is now not even fit for toilet paper. Oliver Stone is an artist and they have an unfortunate habit of telling the truth. You know like Picasso did when he painted ‘Guernica’. There’s a priceless story about that painting: it seems when a Nazi office saw it he said to Picasso ‘Who did this?’ and Picasso said, ‘You did’.

I can’t see the point of writing or filming or painting anything if you don’t tell the truth but I suppose that just means I’m not part of the new ‘the truth is what we say it is’ reality of the neo cons. Well, screw them.

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Any country that excludes american military bases and uncle
milton turdfuck friedman’s ‘unfettered free market capitalism’ is
way ahead of the game and as noted from those south american
countries run in with these american ‘exports’ to each country,
there seems to be little doubt of these countries wanting any of
the such back in to infect their countries.

READ NAOMI KLEIN’S ‘The Sock Doctrine’. Those countries did
not have to read it, it was forced on them and every single one
of them that were forced, crashed economically. And I find them
all of the highest integrity by refusing to allow that to happen
again and it absolutely makes the u.s.a. the perpetrator of a very
bad and sick joke that has NO HUMOUR.

At this late date, only the most stubbornly uninformed among us could believe
that the NYT is anything but a mouthpiece for elite interests. The “newspaper of
record” is more like a record of official prevarication and institutionalized
misinformation. Indeed it is little more than a clearing house for the curated
opinion of Wall St oligarchs and Potomac power brokers.

So don’t worry, Oliver, the rag of record’s attack on your film is a badge of honor.
If anything, it speaks for the picture’s credibility.

I read Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine’ about the US undermining democratically elected South American presidents to install fascist leaders who were more corporate friendly.

These interferences were not exposed by corporation like The New York Times, but toadyed and supported by them.

By the way, The Times dismantled it’s in-house union press gang, and outsources it’s production to India.

The responses to this article are rather informative. Two factual and worthy criticisms of the"free press” and one slam of everything Chavez from the usual source of such.

We here in the belly of the beast cannot help but notice how hard the govt and its stooges in the media work to discredit Hugo Chavez Frias and all he accomplishes. Never mind that Chavez wins elections in landslides, never mind that those elections have been scrutinized and found honest, never mind that Chavez has worked to raise up the poorest in his nation, and, for that matter, the poor elsewhere as well.

I would remind Sr. Ortiz that it was Chavez who offered heating oil at cost to the poorest residents of NYC, not our own govt., or his employers, the oil executives, who want Chavez out of the way so they can get their manicured fingers on all that money.

I don’t believe either side yet I read both.  I respect those who can see both sides
of the issue and have the ethic to leave judgement to the readers instead of using
journalism to further their own beliefs.

Both sides fail very blatantly, and deliberately.

see a website called Narconews.com to get a long history of very misleading reporting that the NYT has done from Latin America.  They’ve had numerous stories there stretching back a decade on what the NYT has gotten very wrong, as in 180 degrees wrong, in their reporting.

The NYT is about the last organization on earth that should be criticizing factual faults in work south of the border.

Frankly, the main question should be, why the heck is anyone reading the NY Times?

What is even sadder, Aaron, is those who believe what the corporate media tells them they believe.

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
(Thomas Jefferson)

“The biggest political joke in America is that we have a liberal press. It’s a joke taken seriously by a surprisingly large number of people… The myth of the liberal press has served as a political weapon for conservative and right-wing forces eager to discourage critical coverage of government and corporate power ... Americans now have the worst of both worlds: a press that, at best, parrots the pronouncements of the powerful and, at worst, encourages people to be stupid with pseudo-news that illuminates nothing but the bottom line.”
(Mark Hertzgaard)

“We’re not in the business of providing news and information, We’re simply in the business of selling our customers’ products.”
(Clear Channel CEO Lowry Mays)

“The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you’ve got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.”
(Noam Chomsky)

It’s sad to see this site defend Stone’s one-sided presentation of a very flawed
man.

Instead of discussing factual accuracy, this article should be discussing whether it
presents both sides of the story in a clear, unbiased manner.

I don’t have to watch it to know whether it does; I only need to see Chavez’s own
response to it: applause.