The New York Times (NYT) is in the business of changing the American culture, especially what it perceives as really bad American habits. One of them is free speech.
In an article (Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech) the NYT tried to address the issue of the different approach that American judicial system takes on the important issue of free speech. The article is a marvelous study in the architecture of deceit. What is omitted and what is included create a much distorted picture of the issue at hand. It all starts in the first paragraph:
“A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine published an article arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values. The article’s tone was mocking and biting, but it said nothing that conservative magazines and blogs in the United States do not say every day without fear of legal reprisal.”
What is excluded from this paragraph, and the rest of the article, is any mention to what was “mocking and biting” in the Maclean’s article. It’s a very useful omission. Continue
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