News Zero: the New York Times and the Bomb

How did a world class newspaper become little more than a propaganda outlet for the U. S. government in its drive to cover up the dangers of radioactivity emanating from the testing of nuclear weapons? And why is it still offering warped coverage of the issues 40 years after the end of nuclear tests above ground? Hiding nearly half of the tests from public view, The New York Times? stories predated by more than 40 years its recent crisis of made-up stories by reporter Jayson Blair.

Reporter Beverly Keever takes you inside our most prestigious propaganda machine to show just how the Times covered up the reality from half lies with half truths to supplying a complete alternative framework to manufacture consent.