The morning after the US-led airstrikes on Syria, The Times devoted its front page to an attack on academics who had questioned the rationale for the bombing. The headline article – ‘Apologists for Assad working in British universities’ – was accompanied by a two-page spread claiming that the academic Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and
The Times Declares: Stop Asking Questions on Syria!
In seeking to close down dissident thought, Times journalists are acting, not as neutral defenders of truth, but as partisan advocates for a particular understanding war.
