FAIR:
"David Koch may be dead, but his legacy of support for far-right politics and climate change denial lives on. The New York Times, however, chose to focus more on his love for the ballet than on his pollution and profiteering.
In its obituary (8/23/19), 'David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79' the Times called Koch a 'man-about-town philanthropist.' On the same day, the Times (8/23/19) published an affectionate article calling him 'largely uncontroversial' in arts circles because of his donations.
Another piece (8/26/19), from a feature called 'New York Today,' celebrated the 'mark' the 'generous benefactor of hospitals and museums' left on New York, listing the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing at the American Museum of Natural History and the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center—and ignoring the less glamorous mark his company’s pollution has left on other parts of the country."
-->Leave it to our national corporate organ, the NYT, to omit David's involvement in funding climate denial think tanks, and his oil company's despicable pollution record. The NYT has always acted like one of David's corporate front groups.
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The Guardian:
"Leaked communications suggest that the UN’s migration agency is censoring itself on the climate crisis and the global compact on migration, following pressure from the US government.
An email sent by a US-based official of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on 28 August to colleagues around the world relayed that the US state department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) told the agency documents related to programme activities it funds 'must not be in conflict with current [US government] political sensitivities'.
Sensitivities include the climate crisis, sustainable development goals, the global compact for migration and 'anything that seems at odds with the administration’s take on US domestic/foreign issues', the official wrote in the email."
-->Is the UN often controlled by the country that funds a good deal of it, and that provides land for its headquarters? The NYT avoids this issue by not printing the story.
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The Guardian:
"Twitter has blocked the accounts of the Cuban Communist party leader Raúl Castro, his daughter Mariela Castro and Cuba’s top state-run media outlets, a move the Cuban Union of Journalists denounced as 'massive censorship'.
Dozens of accounts of journalists for Cuban state-run media as well as the official account for the communications ministry were also blocked in the crackdown late on Wednesday.
Twitter did not explain or forewarn of the measure, state-run media wrote on their websites. The company did not immediately reply to a request for comment."
-->The NYT did not cover this story, although a Reuters report is on the NYT website. Big tech companies like Twitter and Facebook almost always follow the empire's directives, and should be seen as part of the US propaganda machine.
