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by Douglas Murray • May 6, 2019
at 5:00 am
- What is strangest --
and most defamatory -- is to call people
"far-right", or insinuate that they are linked to
the far-right because they are saddened by the fire at Notre
Dame.
- For those who know
the journalism business... the degradation exemplified by
Tharoor, Taylor and Noack is no surprise. It is the
consequence of a shrinking industry with shrinking budgets
which cannot afford foreign reporters and finds itself instead
paying low-grade hacks to sit in America and write about
people in Europe who are tweeting about a massacre in Sri
Lanka.
- Apart from
demonstrating quite a remarkable freedom with facts and
ignorance of libel laws, these "journalists" also do
something else. They see the world, and the terrible actions
of some terrible people in it, only through their own narrow
and deeply parochial vision.
What is
strangest -- and most defamatory -- is to call people
"far-right", or insinuate that they are linked to the
far-right because they are saddened by the fire at Notre Dame.
(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Last month, immediately after fire had almost
destroyed the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the Washington
Post ran a piece with the headline, "The Notre Dame fire
ignites the West's far-right." The author, Ishaan Tharoor,
used his piece to expand on that untimely and inaccurate claim. He
wrote:
"A strange — though not altogether surprising —
thing happened in the shadow of Monday's tragedy. As many around
the world watched an iconic cathedral in Paris go up in flames,
others immediately set about trying to spark new fires. On both
sides of the Atlantic, denizens of the far right took to social
media to grind their culture-warring axes, locating in the calamity
a parable for the political moment — or, at least, their
understanding of it."
Tharoor then went on to list the various people he
wanted to grab at to make this prefabricated argument.
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