Ira Stoll is a profound student of the New York Times. Given the Times’s influence on the rest of the mainstream media, it deserves the attention he devotes to it. In his most recent study, he notes this in passing on the Medal of Honor awarded to Roddie Edmonds earlier this month (noted here on Power Line):
The Times imposed a total news blackout on Trump awarding the Medal of Honor this month to Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, who put his own life at risk in January 1945 in a German POW camp. As the Army recounts it: “Edmonds was appointed the senior noncommissioned officer in charge of the American barracks. That evening, the Germans announced that only American prisoners who were also Jewish would fall out for roll call the following morning under threat of execution. Edmonds understood that segregating more than 200 Jewish prisoners of war from the larger group would likely result in their persecution and possible death, so he directed his senior leaders to have all 1,200 American prisoners present themselves for roll call. The following morning, the Nazi officer became incredulous after realizing that so many Americans were standing in formation. Edmonds said to him, ‘We are all Jews here,’ and reminded the officer about the rights afforded to all prisoners under the Geneva Convention. Enraged, the officer removed his pistol, pressed it hard against Edmonds’ forehead between his eyes and demanded that he order all American Jewish prisoners to step forward or he would be shot. Instead of conceding, Edmonds warned the officer that executing him would lead to prosecution for war crimes after the war. The officer lowered his weapon and returned to his office without further attempts to segregate the Jewish prisoners from the larger group.”
Fox News covered that medal. The Associated Press covered it. The New York Sun covered it. But the Times is too busy depicting the U.S. military as destroyers of a school in Iran and Trump as some sort of Nazi-like figure. Trump giving a medal to the “We are all Jews here” sergeant, and telling his son, Chris, who attended the ceremony, that “today your father gets the honor he so courageously earned” was news the Times did not find fit to print. Maybe A.G. Sulzberger can recover some of the newspaper’s honor by ordering a make-up editorial the way the Times did the last time it was embarrassed to miss covering the award of a Medal of Honor.
I have omitted Stoll’s many links in the two paragraphs above. See the whole thing in his interesting Free Beacon story “New York Times Joins Resistance to Antidiscrimination Investigation at Penn.”
