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Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone

Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone

December 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Our media loves to pose as high-minded overseas. At home, they do the government’s bidding almost without fail They say fiction has had its day, given over to Brooklyn-dwellers with nothing to say. True and not. Our newspapers provide splendid…

Reform the New York Times! Media must stop protecting companies tied to Chinese corruption

Reform the New York Times! Media must stop protecting companies tied to Chinese corruption

November 23, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

U.S. corporations are complicit in Chinese corruption. Why are our newspapers so afraid to report the truth Once upon a time, people on this side of the Pacific were encouraged to assume that China’s post-Mao economic reforms would make the…

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