Times hides its own confederate ties
They did it again.
The New York Times has published yet another critical piece about Georgia’s Stone Mountain Confederate Monument without disclosing its patriarch’s history and financial support for the project.
As I wrote last summer, Adolph Ochs, who took over the Times in 1896 and whose descendants still control it, contributed $1,000 in 1924 so the name of his deceased mother, Bertha Levy Ochs, would be engraved on the founders’ roll.
According to Civil War Times magazine, Ochs enclosed a letter with his donation in which he said of his mother: “Robert E. Lee was her idol.”
As I also wrote, Levy Ochs supported slavery and her brother and two cousins fought for the South in the Civil War. Her uncle in Natchez, Miss., where she lived for a time, had five slaves, the 1860 Census reported. At least one other family member was a slave holder and slave trader.
In his book, “The Jewish Confederates,” Robert Rosen writes that at Bertha’s 1908 funeral “Her coffin was, at her request, draped with the Confederate flag.”
None of this history was disclosed in the paper’s long Tuesday
article about changes to Stone Mountain Park that leave intact the
gigantic carved images of Jefferson Davis, Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Apparently, any news that would spoil the paper’s progressive
credentials isn’t fit to print.
1 comment:
GEE, the New York Slime is trying to ignore or revise their own history. What a surprise.
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