{"id":95399,"date":"2025-05-02T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95399"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:59:45","slug":"the-new-york-times-still-values-the-narrative-more-than-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/05\/02\/the-new-york-times-still-values-the-narrative-more-than-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times<\/em> still values “the narrative” more than the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Berenson<\/a> on the way the New York Times<\/em> chose to present the summary of the crash investigation on the fatal collision between a US Army Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial passenger aircraft over Washington DC:<\/p>\n

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The New York Times<\/em> cannot stop mangling the truth to serve its political goals.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the paper exhaustively examined the collision between an Army Black Hawk and an American Airlines jet that killed 67 people over the Potomac in January.<\/p>\n

The massive 4,000-word article<\/a> claimed the crash had many causes, including an overworked air traffic controller. “Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash<\/em><\/strong>“, the Times<\/em> proclaimed.<\/p>\n

Except that’s not really what happened. Or what the Times<\/em> found.<\/p>\n

Yes, the controller was busy. Yes, the Black Hawk pilots wore night-vision goggles that can, ironically, complicate seeing in cities with lots of ambient light.<\/p>\n

Those choices and problems raised the risks of an accident.<\/p>\n

But despite all the words the Times<\/em> devoted to explaining the crash, its root cause was simple. The Black Hawk was flying too high. It flew directly into the CRJ700 regional jet. The plane’s pilots and passengers had no chance.<\/p>\n

That’s the reality. The second reality is that an inexperienced female Army pilot, Capt. Rebecca Lobach, 28, (CORRECTION: original article said 36) was at the controls of the Black Hawk when it hit the CRJ700, on a training and evaluation mission.<\/p>\n

What the Times<\/em> actually<\/em> found, the news in the article, is that the Lobach’s copilot repeatedly warned her the helicopter needed to descend in the minutes before the accident. Just seconds before the crash, he suggested she tack left, a path that would likely have avoided the jet.<\/p>\n

She didn’t respond.<\/p>\n

In other words, the story here is that Lobach \u2014 who had never deployed overseas but had volunteered in the Biden White House and whose obituary prominently called her a certified advocate for “sexual harassment” victims \u2014 flew her helicopter into a passenger jet and killed 67 people, including herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Berenson on the way the New York Times chose to present the summary of the crash investigation on the fatal collision between a US Army Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial passenger aircraft over Washington DC: The New York Times cannot stop mangling the truth to serve its political goals. On Sunday, the paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5,53,13],"tags":[123,31,565,213,985,365],"class_list":["post-95399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military","category-politics","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-army","tag-helicopters","tag-newspapers","tag-washingtondc","tag-wreck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oOH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95401,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95399\/revisions\/95401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}