There has been a slow, but
everso revealing common thread
emerging from the news media
generally, which is not unlike
the common thread that has
been showing itself in the
lawyers and judicial arenas,
whereby unexplained mountains
of craplike behavior adverse
to veterans who are trying to
expose the system comes spewing
out of these sources who
claim to be the highest
guardians of a free press.

In my own pursuits of getting
in the face of the dragon, and
shaking down the truth to these
false and phoney claims, I
have come across a few surprises
which is worth OUTing in this
Vets Forum for all to see and
examine.

Here in Albany, NY we bear the
unique distinction of not only
having our local city newspaper,
but also, the nationally famed
New York Times national newspaper
holds office here too. Let me
burst your imaginery bubble
if you are forming the idea that
the New York Times Office must
have a gleaming, shining,
spectacular display of an office
with rows upon rows of busy
reporters who are ready to jump
on any story that looks like it
could make a headline.
Yeah Right !!

Try this for a reality check
--- one dinky guy, squirrelled
away in a rathole loft, up an 18
inch wide stairway leading to
nowhere, atop the New York State
Legislature Building !!
YUP! The New York Times and
Saddam Hussein have something
common, so there you have it!

Being a Fort McClellan veteran
who thought I had the best
headline-grabbing news stories
of the decade as I made one
discovery of governmental
bungling in the agencies after
another, I began my quest to
pursue this New York Times
rathole in the flesh with some
great and well prepared supporting
documents to boot, first delivered
in person, then faxed, then faxed
again, then mailed.

Nearly 6 months into my
dogged research to find even
more agency dirt in the bungling
and mishandling of the PCB
contamination zone at Fort
McClellan, Alabama, I REALLY
got my confidence up and proceded
to rent a Press Conference hall
and held my very own press
conference and spent $100 of my
disability money mailing out
the conference materials for
all the news media to review.
Not one news outlet showed up,
including the New York Times who
was just down the hall from
the Conference Room.

As time went by, and more
things came to be known about
the pcb zone in Anniston, Alabama
near the Fort, a stunning piece
of information came forward
which deepened the mystery
behind the New York Times lack
of interest in anything bearing
real news from a genuine military
veteran.

A July 1969 NYT article titled
"Army Suspends Use of Gas at
2d Post" Page 3, was obtained
where it was disclosed that Fort
McClellan, Alabama up until that
date, was secretly using Sarin
gas, VX gas, and mustard gas in
it's training maneuvers, and
Congress issued the halt order
at McClellan bearing the
headline's title. Page 3, one
column long.

Then a December 1976 NYT
Page 12 article was obtained
titled "Feigned Germ War
Admitted by Army" whereby it
was disclosed that the Army had
been secretly dropping germ
warfare products at Fort McClellan
in 1952 for the purpose of
"field evaluation" results in
the event of a biological attack.
Page 12, 2 columns long.

And now all these years later,
out it comes that Monsanto
Corporation was dumping out
the biggest pcb contamination
zone in U.S. history right
next door to the Fort McClellan
base from the 1930's up until
1978. And the New York Times
could care less.

Unfortunately, none of
the older New York Times news
coverage ever bothered to
mention that Fort McClellan,
Alabama was the national home
of the Womens Army Corps (WACS)
from the 1950's to 1978 when
it was decommissioned. This
small detail alone would have
easily required the blips
to move from Page 12 to
Page 1 in big, bold, headlines.
But the small details were
nowhere to be found in the
hurried, buried, and obscure
articles decades ago.


It's hard to know what to
make of all this. First, it
can be said that the New York
Times is lazy and uninterested
in researching the small
details behind a news story. I
think the term "Parrot-Head"
might apply. By all indications,
the New York Times is not a real
source of original news, but is
instead, an echo wire of the
Associated Press and they do
little else other than to
Parrot-Head that which is fed
into the common wire services.

Second, it can be said that
the laziness exhibited in the
older news articles about
Fort McClellan, clearly shows
a lack of investigative
reporting when even the
most superficial of questioning
at the base would have yielded
that all important gem of
information revealing the base
was overrun with thousands
upon thousands of young women
in their 20's pursuing military
boot camp. Gasing or germing
thousands of women troops in
their own country, apparently
is of no interest to the New
York Times editors, and yes
for sure, the story would have
been bad enough by itself
had the base been all-male.

Third, it can also be said
that the New York Times
crippling affliction of not
wanting to hear about news
stories from an original
veteran source, is but a
modern day indication that
it still wants nothing to do
with the truth about the
agencies. Consider the fact
that yes, I did have backup
contacts to give out so I
was not the only verifier
of the press release. So
what's up with this Monkey
Squad ??

How can it be, exactly, that
the New York Times even
claims to BE a national
newspaper, if it runs from,
hides from, downplays and
oversummarizes, then refuses
to even receive true and
genuine news stories, from
the people who are closest
to the story???

S-o-o-o who is it, exactly,
that is giving the New York
Times far more credit than
it deserves as the Parrot-Head,
news conference No-Show that
it really is ??

If this is but one stunning
discovery I have made about
the New York Times while
pursuing a headline of the
decade, (and no doubt, they
were not expecting me to put
2+2 together to expose their
incompetence), then we can only
sit around and guess about
how many more New York Times
bungles and military downplays
are out there, which we Veterans
have not even discovered yet!
Whoa --- now THERE is a scary
thought !!

GEE !! I wonder what
it would have taken to have either
of these Fort McClellan articles
to be FRONT PAGE NEWS ????
BUMMER!!