Tale of Two Tuesdays – Zelensky, the Times and the Journal

Front Page Headline of the NY Times:

Zelensky to Address U.N. as Toll of Atrocities Mounts

Front Page Headline of the Wall Street Journal:

Zelensky to Address U.N. With Claims of Russian Atrocities

Like Fox “News”, the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.  Murdoch bought the Journal in 2007 from the Dow Jones Company, who had founded it in 1882, just in time to oversee the melt-down of the markets a year later.  The Journal used to be Capitalist but, since Murdoch took over, it has become right-wing and essentially a mouthpiece for the radical right – conspiracy theories and all.

You may think there’s only a subtle difference between “Toll of Atrocities”: and “Claims of Russian Atrocities” (as if there are various brands) but “Toll” and “Claims” tell very different stories indeed.  The NY Times article leads with:

Britain, France and the United States were expected to use the Security Council meeting to present evidence of atrocities that some officials, including President Biden, have described as “war crimes” in northern areas that Russian troops abandoned amid fierce resistance. In one of those places, Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Mr. Zelensky said that more than 300 bodies have been found since Russian forces pulled back last week, some with their hands bound or shot in the back of the head.

The Journal goes with:

Ukrainian president says newly discovered atrocities could be worse than those in Bucha; former Russian president describes evidence as ‘fake’

Mr. Zelensky is expected to raise accusations of war crimes again in

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