Why the New York Times Gets it Wrong

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  It appears that the New York Times, and many other papers, do not have a baseline level of knowledge that can be applied toward military conflict due to teh lack of veterans in the newsroom.

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• 4:20… pretty sure that's how Fox "News" operated with the whole Voting Machine thing that ended up costing the 3/4 of a Billion Dollars.

• It can't be denied the the NYT is biased & has an agenda to push. They have historically been anti-Israel, so it's no surprise they rushed to accept the Hamas version of the story. They could've reported the hospital bombing (the Islamic Jihad missile actually hit the parking lot & killed about 50) & waited before assigning blame.

• In addition, I don't think Hiba Yazbek is impartial here.

• You are nerding out here. I dont care about the caliber – any automatic rifle can be called a machine gun in the vernacular. And veterans are not a minority – no more than teachers, cops or fast food workers..

• The New York Times leans left? Only in the US. In Norway it would be hard conservative.. the US is out of kilt with the world in general politically..

• C'mon! You know tthat there is a narrative going on. They start with the premisse that Israel is evil and wants to kill as many Palestinians as possible, so they bombed the hospital to kill regardless if they are civilians…. With that mindset, they find it very likely that Israel bombed the hospital intentionally

• Ryan, you are way too kind to the NY Times! Is there any meter to measure their Anti Israel bias levels? This may be the overwhelming stat which dictates how they interpret an event and how quick they are to jump on Israel as a culprit of evil! Having said that, as a first time watcher of your channel, I am very VERY impressed with your sleuthing through data!

• I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the armed forces, but I am glad that someone out there has not only delved into this topic of human error OR conscious bias–and maybe both–in an in-depth manner. The fact that ALL news sources are somewhat biased to very biased left or right, and the fact that they don't often go with what's correct but what sells to their base, shows that conflicts are often misreported either intentionally or unintentionally to broaden the news sources' appeal. Thank you.

• Hi Y'all,
  A couple of comments. About 80% of the employees of the NYT are the equivalent of stagehands in a theater, they have no choice in what is printed. The journalists and editors make a good living, compared to most people, until you think about it. A starting journalist probably makes about $25 per hour or $50K per year, but then has to live in New York City with its high cost of living.
  Probable top end, maybe $250,000, unless you go into management, in which case you won't be in the newsroom anymore.
  Most veterans can make more money managing a Domino's than they can being a reporter at the NYT. Moreover, the competition for the handful of spots they do have is fierce, think about the credentials you need to even be considered.
  You are going to need a BA or a BS in Journalism from one of the top 20 or 30 schools in the country. You really need to be an editor on the school paper. Then you need to get a job at a medium sized paper, say in Minneapolis or Omaha, put in 3 or 4 years, move up to a Miami or a Seattle, another 3 or 4 years. With the downturn in the industry, these spots are like hen's teeth to start out with. That is over a decade, just to get considered. Forget a family, you are going to be on the road at least 100 days per year.

  Then comes the worst part. You are Molly Ivins, the 1990's equivalent of Mark Twain, you refer to Dickey's bourbon, the editors in New York change it to Jim Beam, because they didn't think enough people would recognize that Dickey's was a bourbon.
  Any 12-year-old boy can tell you why Dickey's is funnier than Jim Beam, but an editor at the paper had the power to change her writing, without her permission.

  Suggested reading, "The Years with Ross" by James Thurber and "Dispatches" by Michael Herr. "Tim Page's Nam" is great, "Close Quarters", "Paco's Story" by Larry Heineman.
  Thanks for your time, take care.

• The NYT gets it wrong because they don’t care about the information they provide unless it supports their ideology. If the information doesn’t support their ideology you can be assured they will make it fit. IOW, lie to your face while smiling and nodding. And when caught they will not make the effort to correct it because they feel no guilt. You have to have a working conscience for that to happen. And that died years ago!

• Awesome job. Thanks Ryan.

• Regarding the M4, the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) defines a machinegun as any firearm that reloads automatically (or even one that can be easily converted to automatic).
  So yes, it is perfectly valid to refer to an M4 as a machinegun, even if to someone in the US Army "machinegun" = "light machinegun" (or GPMG).
  In the nomenclature of most countries, a select-fire carbine is a subset of the "assault rifle" category, which in turn is 1 of many types of machinegun.
  Sub-machineguns are so called because they are smaller machineguns, but still recognised to be a type of machinegun… Heck, the Soviets called the AK-47 a sub-machinegun.

  While I'm all for correct terminology as much as possible, I feel like you're really just looking for problems on this one.

• Stories about war are bread and butter in international news. I dont understand that newspaper claiming national importance or even international importance wouldn't employ journalists with military expertise.

• A responsible paper , prints known facts , and refrains from unproven embellishments.
  This concept was thrown out the window in favor of infotainment , and biased journalism. Many decided that they had the proper role to interpret and skew , in the attempt to mold public opinion.
  So to them ,, who gives a st if it's an M 4 , or whether the IDF did something disagreeable – or not .
  They sling a narrative, and if you read ground news's multiple presentations, that much should be clear.
  The numeric lack of veterans , and such , is predictable.
  It's no boo boo.

• Good theory. You should add in bias against Israel. That may be, possibly, might be, you never know …part of it 😅

• Just for fun: I don't think using LinkedIn is a great way to find out information, but you're estimating, so it doesn't have to be perfect. — Using other online resources, Roughly 5,800 people work for New York times. If we use 6 percent of the population are veterans and figure out how many could be working there, that's roughly 348 veterans, but that US veteran percentage also includes veterans over 60, any veteran severely disabled, and any other veteran, including those who don't work in journalism in any way. So, breaking it down to veterans between say 25-60 who also work for the New York times… Yea. I could totally see that being a super low number of veterans working for the New York times, even as a janitor.

• Israel has a motivation to bomb that hospital that Ryan does NOT want to admit. They WANTED to destroy Gaza infrastructure, and with it, the lives of ordinary Gazans. This is admitted almost DAILY by the various right-wing parties in Israel. The top rabbis in Israel and IDF, acknowledge and BOAST that non-Jewish lives are not worth ANYTHING compared to Jewish lives. The upshot is that the right-wing governing coalition is trying to completely destroy the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza to fulfill the goal of "Eretz Israel", i.e., The Land of Israel, which means to them, From the Nile to the Euphrates. They only withdrew their claim that the bomb was IDF's when they experienced pushback.

  Also, Hamas has no weapons that are capable of causing the quantity of damage to the hospital that was inflicted. Ryan ought to know what size missiles Hamas has, how big their warheads are, etc.

  This is not to justify anything the NYT has to say. They are systematically wrong in their conclusions. They get individual, checkable facts mostly right, but their conclusions and normative narratives can be reliably counted on to be the opposite of what they print.

• Mr. McBeth… another masterful video. Hats off to you sir.

  Why are veterans so poorly represented in left-leaning media? I suspect it could be because of an underlying discomfort the left has for the war machine – any war machine. It's like seeing fire burn a house down and condemning fire itself, and all fire, as bad.

  Now I appreciate that people will say otherwise; intellectually, people know that a military is important. Privately, however, viscerally, they want distance from it. Not all left leaning media people of course, but enough. It is fire after all – even if it's their own.

• Excellent research and analysis! Now that I know just how few Veterans are employed by major news outlets, I have a better understanding of how they manage to F*** it up so often and so completely!
  In any case, it has been a long time since I paid much attention to mainstream news outlets. About the same amount of time that has passed since I came home from Vietnam …
  Thank you for all of the work you put in to this channel and your other projects.
  This ancient old Marine in Frederick County heartily approves!

• Thank u for misinformation, you are a legend

• In an unrelated note: watching you break down questions : like step by step to think about the probability of what ever question you pose. And every time you answer the question with reasonable probability. It’s awesome and now I seem to apply it to all aspect of life( especially arguments

• Wow. I argued with like 3 coworkers about shit I knew for a fact they were saying was wrong: and now I know where they got it from. All 3 use the New York Times .

• Update us on what NYC times says

• I would consider Amanpour unqualified to report on military operations

• Great video! Thanks for the great content. Love Dinosaurs jr

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