The New York Times is a death cult

[Mark Crispin Miller]

From today's paper: 

"Taking the Funeral to the Mourners: The body of Jesse James McLellan, who died of Covid-19,

was brought near his home in Brooklyn": Caption to a front-page photo of masked neighbors

standing dolefully around a hearse, its rear door open for removal of the casket.

"Dying in America, Yearning for Burial in Mexico": Headline of an article on p. A11.

"We're Fraying": Headline on the jump page (A13) of the front-page article, "Fraying Nerves

Dishearten City As Crisis Drags."

"Italy Stores Up Family Tragedies Through Isolating the ill at Home": Headline on p. A15.

"In Canada, a Time to Mourn, But in a Different Manner": p. A17

That's typical of the Gray Lady, who, throughout this crisis, has been practically invisible 

beneath the long black veil she wears, day in, day out, as she does not so much report

the "news" as wail it. It's notable that she did not dress all in black like this in 2009, when

a lot more people, in the US and worldwide, were dying of H1N1; nor did she go in for

this hysterical morbidity during the first years—or, since then, any other moments—of 

the AIDS pandemic. She has waxed morbid after Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Parkland,

Pittsburgh, and other high-profile mass shootings, with much lurid funeral coverage, 

and photo galleries showing those, or some of those, "we've lost," but those spurts 

of mourning tears were one-offs, and the mournfulness short-lived, whereas the Times 

has been indulging in this ghoulish reportage for many weeks, suggesting  that the 

paper needs to hire a team of grief counsellors.

Of course, I'm being facetious there—because it isn't grief among the staff that has the

Times forever beating on its funeral bells, but the demands of the enormous Western 

propaganda drive to magnify the toll of the coronavirus, and keep its readers terrified 

that they might be the next to die, if they should dare to go outside, or get too close to 

anybody else. In short, the Times is doing everything it can to hype this crisis, so that 

we'll desperately accede to mandatory vaccination, heightened mass surveillance, 

cashless transactions, and whatever other fixes the exploiters (and creators?) of this 

crisis have in store for us.

And, speaking of the AI-based dystopia that's going to be our world (if we don't fight

it), the Times is not just going on and on about the death death death, but also

simultaneously pumping out a lot of propaganda meant to reconcile us all to

"sheltering in place" for just as long as Bill Gates wants us to. Just as AT&T, 

Papa John's, T-Mobile and the car companies, among other advertisers, have 

been coming out with TV spots that make our "social distancing" look pretty 

cool, so is the Gray Lady working to prepare us, not for a return to "normal," 

but for the Brave New World in which "we can live rich lives at home" forever.

That dismal chirp comes from the email that the Times sent out just yesterday,

announcing "At Home, a new print section" of the Sunday paper. Check out this 

upbeat notice (below); and don't think for a moment that the New York Times 

wants us to lead "rich lives," any more than it's concerned about our health—

or world peace, actual democracy, or, for that matter, freedom of the press,

because a genuinely free press would confront that toxic rag with competition 

that would tell the truth, and help us lead real lives. 

MCM

 

Introducing "At Home."   View in Browser     Dear Reader,   This weekend we are introducing At Home, a new print section of The New York Times. It is devoted to the belief that we can live rich lives at home even while we are quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic, even while we are maintaining social distance from one another, even while we begin the slow, unsteady steps toward reopening our cities and states, our world.   At Home is meant to bring art and beauty into your home, along with health, style, deliciousness and a little bit of fun. The section will bring you games and virtual voyages, tips for beauty and fitness, easy recipes to cook. It will look at what’s happening in the night skies, and at paintings in virtual museums. It has things to say about childcare and self-care, and about what to watch and listen to. It will help you organize your space. It will encourage you to read poetry and fiction, to draw and to make. We hope it will be of service as we navigate together how best to live full lives in a difficult time.   At Home will replace, temporarily, our print Travel section, which will return after the coronavirus pandemic has eased, and Sports Sunday will move into the first section of the newspaper, also temporarily. (Travel news will continue to run in other print sections of The Times, including At Home.) We are, all of us, eager to hear from you as we get underway. Please let us know how and what you’re doing at home: ath...@nytimes.com.   Sincerely,   Sam Sifton Assistant Managing Editor for culture and lifestyle news The New York Times       This email was sent to mark....@nyu.edu   Account Login | Help Center Attn.: Customer Service, P.O. Box 8041, Davenport, IA 52808-8041   Terms of Service | Privacy Policy   ©2020 The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018