Weekly Standard dishonesty watch. (In Fact ...).(Brief Article)

Nation, The, April, 2003 by Alterman, Eric

* Eric Alterman writes: For the third week in a row, The Weekly Standard has run the following dishonest advertisement for itself in its own pages: "Reader for reader, it may be the most influential publication in America.--The New York Times, March 11, 2003." But "The New York Times" never said these words.

I did, and the Times quoted me. The Standard is reluctant to credit the real source but likes the blurb so much it is willing, in effect, to mislead its readers. Try this: "The mass arrests of the protesters who seek only to exercise their democratic rights is part and parcel of the government's campaign to criminalize dissent as it wages war abroad and rages the working class, blacks and immigrants at home.--The Weekly Standard, April 7, 2003." Actually,...

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