‘Yale Daily News’ Suppresses News of Historic Vote

by on September 11, 2008 12

The Yale Daily News reports in an ass-backwards way–in a brief–that the Yale Political Union passed by 44-25 on Monday night a resolution that the U.S. should end its special relationship with Israel. In doing so the News characterizes the resolution's advocate John Mearsheimer as an exponent of "offensive-realism." Offensive indeed; you will note if you search Mearsheimer on the YDN site that it has printed two broadsides against Mearsheimer. Its long story on the debate the other night does not include the vote. Our politics are broken because our journalism is broken.

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  1. Richard Witty says:
    September 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    "Historic vote"?

  2. Youngish Jew says:
    September 11, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Shut up Phil–you're old, passé. Our children are leading us, and they are presenting the story the way they see fit. The cult of "young Jews against old zionists" that you've been imagining can't only be invoked when it serves your ends? Can it?

  3. Ruth B. says:
    September 11, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    I love it when within minutes of any criticism of Israel appearing, somehow there's always a committed Jew appearing arguing that there is no such thing as the lobby.

    Today's lobbyists forgot to mention the results of the post-debate vote.

  4. samuel burke says:
    September 11, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    why is our journalism broken?

    the 64 thousand dollar question.

    none of this really matters, thing will play themselves out in the direction it is headed.
    whether the press reports it or not, americans will ask for an accounting as the financial superstructure continnues to crumble.

  5. Ed says:
    September 11, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Hey, these Yale journalism majors aren't dumb; they know who (or rather, what) runs the media. No use getting blacklisted before you even get out of the gate.

    Yet another casualty of Zionist-occupied America: truth in media, honest American journalism.

    Hey Yale Daily Newsers, enjoy your careers at the various Zio-Pravda outlets. And if you swallow hard enough, after 5 years you might even still be able to look yourself in the mirror.

    Ah, nothing like the courage and idealism of crusading journalists.

  6. Todd says:
    September 11, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    The end has to be near when COLLEGE newspapers are self-censoring in the name of a foreign nation.

  7. Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Belly Of The Beast says:
    September 11, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    "why is our journalism broken?" same reason i should think that our economy and polity is broken. i could attempt an answer but its hardly worth the effort. the main thing now is that its broke and cant be fixed.

    theres no use complaining, and no reason. in these last golden sunset years we get to lay back and cheer it on. give it a strategic kick or two if the chance presents itself, but our small efforts are in no way needed. (Vonnegut – Help each down his own slope.)

    so dont get mad. be glad. praise god. the worse the better. the faster it collapses the more chance that anarchy will prevail over outworn authority.

    and yes we'd better think about what went wrong, as a preliminary to envisioning what comes next. i'm willing to make the effort. but the purview of this blog is too narrow to do it here. does anyone have a suggestion about where to do it?

  8. Jim Haygood says:
    September 11, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    "Offensive-realism"? What the hell is that? If it's a clever compound neologism, it's not a very adroit one.

    Reminds me of when a 14-year-old elite blonde socialite from SoCal moved into our Gulf Coast town, with considerable advance PR from her parents. We kids all crowded round to hear "Mimi" dispense some pearls of wisdom.

    "Actually, Texas is a REJECT STATE," she announced, in a peremptory tone which would brook no dissent. We were all like … HUH? What's a "reject state"? Is that some kind of official designation (Civil War guilt, or something), or is young Mimi just makin' this shit up?

    Well, I say Yale Daily News is just makin' this shit up. It's flagrant B.S. When you can't confront the issues … toss a semantic smokebomb and run like hell! LOL!

  9. Eva Smagacz says:
    September 11, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    Paul,

    I heard that Bilin and Nilin do a good line in peaceful demonstrations and are a good meeting place for anarchists and likeminded folk that is pretty disolutioned with the prevailing power structures in the world.

  10. Andre says:
    September 11, 2008 at 5:37 pm

    Youngish Jew said: "Shut up Phil".

    Why should he? It's HIS blog and you are a guest.

  11. Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Belly Of The Beast says:
    September 11, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    "I heard that Bilin and Nilin do a good line in peaceful demonstrations and are a good meeting place for anarchists and likeminded folk"

    it seems Bilin and Nilin are west bank towns resisting the occupation. i guess they might provide a good answer to phils last topic, but not to my question.

    when i said 'where to do it' i meant in cyberspace. not practical for me to move to OT and as i made it clear i feel this is a time for celebration in us and not for martyrdom. considering i seem to be the only one around with much sense of reality i'd best keep myself alive, thank you.

    but thanks for making a suggestion.

  12. Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Belly Of The Beast says:
    September 11, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Here Phil is going to such a ridiculous extreme that he is tipping his hand to even such as me.

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