• Jaderick@lemmy.world
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      I’m pretty sure they always have been. IIRC you’ll find op-Ed’s praising Hitler and Germany leading up to WW2.

      They also deliberately slandered the guy that broke the (CIA admitting cocaine from Nicaragua into the US to fund right wing militias) story that often gets told as “the CIA introduced crack into black communities”. They effectively discredited the story, which turned out to be true.

      The Behind the Bastards episode on it is p good

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      Always has been

      🌍 👩‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀

      Who remembers NYT sitting on the illegal NSA wiretapping story for the Bush admin for over a year?

      Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

      It wasn’t until more than a year later that the paper’s executive editor, Bill Keller, rejecting a personal appeal and warning by President Bush, gave the story a green light. (Bush had warned “there’ll be blood on your hands” if another attack were to occur.)