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                                        January 24, 2010

  But speaking of ideas like
  "The New York Times is a CIA front."
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  Why exactly is that supposed to be
  so absurd?  Unproven perhaps, possibly
  wrong, likely over-simplified... but
  why absurd?


      If you were running a large intelligence
      agency, wouldn't you see some virtue in
      having a line into a major newspaper like
      The New York Times?

      At the very least, it's convienient to
      to be able to use Journalism as a cover
      if you want to send an agent into some
      hotspot quickly.


            After decades of the Cold War,
            why wouldn't you assume that
            The Times had been subverted
            by the CIA?  What, do you think        Well, okay, maybe
            they're incompetent or something?      they are. Actually,
                                                   I doubt the
                                                   situation is quite
                                                   so simple as the
                                                   Times being in any
                                                   one pocket,
                                                   controlled by any
                                                   one interest.

                                                        Really, I think you
                                                        can see signs of
                                                        warring factions
                                                        every now and then...
                                                        the editorial page
                                                        goes one way, and
                                                        the front page
                                                        another.


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