I am a frequent critic of the New York Times, often taking to task its both-siderism approach to political coverage. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/us/gaza-vietnam-student-protest.htmlThe headline and lede are as follows:In Campus Protests Over Gaza, Echoes of Outcry Over Vietnam The war in Vietnam ignited a protest movement that helped define a generation. First, I am old enough to remember the Vietnam war (my older brothers were of draft age; one of my best friend’s brother was killed in action there), and my reaction to this headline was, “Talk about conflating two completely different things! If anything, today’s campus protests are more analogous to the anti-Apartheid movement.”And second, I am cynical enough to have then thought, “So what’s the NYT’s angle? The Times framed the story in a way that rationalizes a similar self-fulfilling outcome by suggesting something like, “Ooh.

Source: New York Times December 25, 2023 00:14 UTC