![The New York Times and Flight MH17 The New York Times and Flight MH17](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fleightMH17-310x168.jpg)
In an August 29 editorial calling for the US and NATO to adopt a retaliatory policy against Russia over its alleged “large and unacceptable escalation of … aggression against Ukraine,” the New York Times asserts in passing that after rebels in eastern Ukraine “shot down a Malaysian jetliner with a Russian missile … Russia’s involvement became more overt.”