Back in 2008, New York Times correspondent David S. Rohde, along with Afghan reporter Taki Luden, were abducted in Pakistan by the Taliban. Because they felt it might adversely affect hostage rescue efforts, the Times requested a news black-out. The Associated Press and other news agencies respected the request and only broke the story recently, after Rohde and Luden had scaled a wall and made their escape. It would be nothing other than a story with a happy ending, except that the Times has time and again ignored the government’s requests that it not report the specific ways in which we...
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Obama Could Work for The New York Times
To begin with the IG doesn't play basketball, but that doesn't mean he would not have been fired. You don't mess with BPOTUS' basketball friends no matter what they do, and one of the main reasons the media ignored the firing, other than the huge double standards that exist between Democrats and Republicans is the fact that the Mr. Walpin was proud of America before Michelle Obama was.