Let’s get this straight. The New York Times criticizes The Epoch Times today for running infomercials attacking the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic while making “no mention of The Epoch Times’s ties to Falun Gong, or its two-decade-long campaign against Chinese communism.”
But last week the Times ran a long piece, titled “Big Tech’s Professional Opponents Strike at Google,” that purported to reveal to readers the forces behind the Google antitrust suit while making no mention of the campaign of the News Media Alliance, of which the Times is a member, for antitrust action against Google, or the threat posed by Google to the Times’ advertising business.
Since the Times seems to think poor little Epoch Times should be disclosing its death struggle with the CCP to readers, I would like to see the Times start disclosing, in each article it writes about Big Tech, its death struggle with those companies over advertising revenues. The paper can also slap a correction to the same effect on each of the hundreds of pieces it has published over the past three years trashing its tech adversaries.
Ben Smith, who knows better, contributed to the Epoch Times piece. Let’s see him show some courage in his next column about media and tech.
So which is it? Maybe both.