{"id":93636,"date":"2022-03-14T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=93636"},"modified":"2022-03-13T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T11:46:12","slug":"12-05-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=93636","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Refuses Ad Opposing Iran Nuclear Deal, Demanding Changes: \u2018We Can\u2019t Accept Paragraph Two\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New York Times Refuses Ad Opposing Iran Nuclear Deal, Demanding Changes: \u2018We Can\u2019t Accept Paragraph Two\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ira Stoll<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The headquarters of The New York Times. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> is refusing to publish a full-page advertisement advocating against a new Iran nuclear deal unless the advertiser changes it to remove references to Iran murdering Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe New York Times<\/em> has done everything to block the ad \u2026 trying to knock the stuffing out of the ad so there is nothing left,\u201d the founder of the World Values Network, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, told The<\/em> Algemeiner<\/em>. \u201cThey want us to do an ad that doesn\u2019t say that Iran did anything wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a Friday afternoon telephone call between a New York Times<\/em> advertising representative and Boteach, the Times<\/em> representative told Boteach the language in the ad saying Iran had murdered Americans needed to be softened. \u201cYou are accusing a country. You cannot do that,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can\u2019t say it directly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Boteach responded, \u201cFor some reason you guys are protecting Iran. It just sounds like the New York Times<\/em> is protecting Iran. I don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> representative responded, \u201cThis is the only way the ad will run.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Boteach responded by saying the Times\u2019 <\/em>policy was bizarre and disgraceful. \u201cI\u2019ve never been told to remove facts to protect a terrorist country. You are tying our hands from even mentioning the people who killed American soldiers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The ad representative said the policy had been set by higher-ups. \u201cIt\u2019s not up to me,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Boteach pointed out that the newspaper\u2019s home page said \u201cRussia\u201d was invading Ukraine, the ad representative said that the paper\u2019s news and advertising divisions have different standards.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> took a red pen to the ad, already revised in response to the paper\u2019s feedback. \u201cWith this one, we can\u2019t accept paragraph two,\u201d the Times<\/em> ad sales representative said. She also had problems with \u201cthe quote underneath the picture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An email from a Times<\/em> ad sales rep, obtained by The<\/em> Algemeiner<\/em>, said, \u201cThe team is asking for you to remove the 2nd and 5th paragraph as those are the main places where it accuses countries of crimes and we cannot accept the ad with those in it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Boteach says the World Values Network, a frequent Times<\/em> advertiser, usually pays tens of thousands of dollars for the full page ads. One version of the ad reviewed by The<\/em> Algemeiner<\/em> was headlined, \u201cMr. President, as you impose crushing sanctions against Russia, please don\u2019t remove them from Iran.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The second paragraph of the ad that drew objections from the Times<\/em> originally read:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iran and its Revolutionary Guard, the IRGC, have engaged in the same practices \u2014 threatening neighbors with annihilation and murdering civilians around the world \u2014 for 40 years. From the imprisonment of American hostages in our Embassy in 1979, to murdering 19 US Air Force Personnel in Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, to thousands of American soldiers murdered and injured in Iraq, the Iranian regime and the terrorists of the IRGC have caused rivers of American blood to flow, all while promising that Israel would be exterminated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Later on Friday, a spokeswoman for the New York Times<\/em>, Danielle Rhoades Ha, told The<\/em> Algemeiner <\/em>that \u201ca revised version of the ad is scheduled to be published in tomorrow\u2019s paper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> news columns have been cheerleading a US return to the Iran nuclear deal. A deal would provide a $700 billion subsidy in the form of sanctions relief<\/a> to the terror-sponsoring nation that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map, in exchange for unverifiable short-term promises of a pause in work on nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> previously had to be shamed into eventually canceling the luxury \u201cTimes Journeys\u201d tours<\/a> it was operating to Iran with Times<\/em>-journalist tour-guides accompanying participants who paid prices up to $135,000. Meanwhile, a regular Times<\/em> op-ed contributor is facing federal criminal charges<\/a> as a paid Iranian foreign agent, a fact that the paper hasn\u2019t yet deigned to disclose to the newspaper\u2019s readers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s<\/strong> note: this article has been updated<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ira Stoll<\/strong> was managing editor of The Forward and North American editor of The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular Algemeiner feature, can be found <\/em>here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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