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  • NYT, WaPo, USA Today editorial boards blast Obama over seizure of AP phone records

    05/15/2013 7:48:14 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/15/2013 | Ed Morrissey
    Politico reported earlier today that Washington DC has begun to turn against Barack Obama and his administration. Thanks to Obama’s own arrogance, write Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, he has little good will inside the Beltway anyway, and that leaves him with few passionate defenders in the latest scandal cascade: The town is turning on President Obama — and this is very bad news for this White House.Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama — and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment Democrats, never big fans of...
  • New York Times Reports Kermit Gosnell Guilty of Killing Fetuses

    05/13/2013 4:43:43 PM PDT · by Morgana · 19 replies
    Life News ^ | Steven Ertelt
    Someone get the staff of the New York Times down to NYU for a Biology 101 class. The Gray Lady reported today that abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of killing fetuses. Never mind that a fetus is an unborn child in the womb, not a baby who was killed after purposefully being birthed in an abortion process that is essentially infanticide. Unlike what the Times reported, a jury of 12 people, who clearly paid attention in seventh grade Life Science class, convicted him of three counts of first-degree murder. But, as the Washington Free Beacon first noted, the...
  • When Myths Collide in the Capital

    05/12/2013 10:43:01 AM PDT · by Beave Meister · 12 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 5/11/2013 | MAUREEN DOWD
    THE capital is in the throes of dj vu and preview as it plunges back into Clinton Rules, defined by a presidential aide on the hit ABC show Scandal as damage control that goes like this: Its not true, its not true, its not true, its old news. The conservatives appearing on Benghazi-obsessed Fox News are a damage patrol with an approach that goes like this: Lies, paranoia, subpoena, impeach, Watergate, Iran-contra. (Though now that the I.R.S. has confessed to targeting Tea Party groups, maybe some of the paranoia is justified.) Welcome to a glorious spring weekend of accusation and...
  • Mayor Bloomberg Rips NY Times Over Stop And Frisk Coverage

    05/01/2013 9:39:38 AM PDT · by Biggirl · 11 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 1,2013 | Rebecca Harshbarger, Bob Fredericks
    Mayor Bloomberg today unleashed an attack on The New York Times, accusing the paper of hypocrisy for publishing an editorial against the NYPDs stop and frisk policy days after the paper of record didnt bother covering of the murder of a black teenager.
  • New York Time: Breitbart was right about Pigford

    04/26/2013 7:52:36 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Hotair ^ | 04/26/2013 | Ed Morrissey
    It's rare to get this kind of vindication, so let's enjoy it in memory of Andrew Breitbart for as long as possible. For more than two years, Andrew and Lee Stranahan have investigated the Pigford settlement and the fraudulent claims that not only have cost taxpayers billions, but have left the original black farmers who sued the USDA over discrimination. Today the New York Times reports what Andrew and Lee have been saying all along — that the Pigford settlement was a political hack job by Tom Vilsack’s Department of Agriculture, and that it’s a magnet for fraud (via Twitchy):...
  • NY Times to roll out new products in search of revenue [ 11.2 percent drop in ad revenue ]

    04/25/2013 11:44:47 AM PDT · by NoLibZone · 28 replies
    reuters ^ | April 25 ,2013 | reuters
    New York Times Co reported a decline in quarterly revenue on weak advertising sales but said it would try to grow out of the slump by expanding its suite of digital products. The 11.2 percent drop in advertising revenue in the first quarter underscores the pressure that the New York Times faces to increase its subscription revenue, especially for its digital products, and find new veins of income.
  • New York Times Finally Assigns Reporter to Gosnell Abortion Trial

    04/15/2013 3:33:46 PM PDT · by Morgana · 6 replies
    Life News ^ | Steven Ertelt
    The public editor for the New York Times, Margaret Sullivan, writes on her blog that there is no vast left-wing media conspiracy concerning the de facto ban on coverage of the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell in the mainstream media. Until last week, when the pro-life movement was successful inputting enough pressure on the media to cover the trial, most mainstream media outlets had virtually ignored it. As Sullivan wrote: I dont think that editors and reporters got together and decided not to give the Gosnell trial a lot of attention because it would highlight the evils of abortion. I...
  • NYT Nicholas Kristof Blames GOP for Boston Blast

    04/15/2013 1:24:39 PM PDT · by Perdogg · 84 replies
    explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking apptment articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-01/wor…— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 15, 2013
  • Limbaugh's Advice to the New York Times:Be More Like the Drudge Report

    04/03/2013 2:08:32 PM PDT · by lbryce · 11 replies
    Mediate.com ^ | April 4, 2013 | Noah Rothman
    To The New York Times: Be More Like The Drudge Report Limbaugh Ashamed by Noah Rothman video Radio host Rush Limbaugh, reacting to the admission by a senior White House advisor that he is prone to mocking reporters who bring up stories they read on Matt Drudges news aggregator, Drudge Report, defended the site from the Obama administrations criticism. He said that Drudge Report serves the same purpose for average news consumers that the New York Times does for members of the media by setting the daily narrative
  • Can the New York Times religion coverage be resurrected?

    04/02/2013 10:50:54 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Hotair ^ | 04/02/2013 | Ed Morrissey
    We somehow missed this yesterday, but Newsbusters certainly didn’t, and it’s worth a look even a day later. The New York Times, with reporters around the world and “layers of fact-checkers and editors,” somehow couldn’t properly define Easter in a news article that focused on Pope Francis’ message on Christianity’s most holy of days. This correction has to be a contender for the most hilarious of the year: This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:Correction: April 1, 2013An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the Christian holiday of Easter. It is the celebration of Jesus’s resurrection from...
  • NYTimes' Easter Error 'Resurrection Into Heaven of Jesus,3 Days After He Crucified'(edit)

    04/01/2013 4:22:20 PM PDT · by SMGFan · 15 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | April 1 , 2013
    Who says the New York Times is ignorant of religion? Elisabetta Povoledo is a Rome-based reporter for the paper's international edition, but either she or her copy editor made a mortifying mischaracterization of the meaning of Easter in an online story on Pope Francis posted Monday: "Pope Calls for Peace in All the World in First Easter Message." Here's the original final paragraph, vanished from nytimes.com but available on Nexis, emphasis added: Easter is the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus, three days after he was crucified, the premise for the Christian belief in an everlasting life. In...
  • [Vanity]Looking for Old WMD ARticle

    03/15/2013 8:51:46 PM PDT · by TBP · 23 replies
    Memory | Currently | Me
    I remember that early in the Iraq war, the New York Times tried to embarrass the Bush Administration by publishing an article saying that our troops had lost some WMDs they were guarding. I've been looking for that article and several searches have not located it. Does anyone else remember that? Why can't I find it? Has the Times stricken it? Does anyone know where I might locate it?
  • The New Hope of Gun Control Advocates

    03/11/2013 8:05:13 AM PDT · by marktwain · 19 replies
    The self-hating gun owner: Other gun owners interviewed for this article expressed similar reservations, citing their enjoyment of hunting or of introducing family members to the sport while expressing support for stricter gun control legislation. Mr. Kundu, for instance, supports a ban on the kind of assault weapon that he owns, a rifle manufactured by Panther Arms. Yes, AR-15 owners who think AR-15s ought to be banned. Does the New York Times really believe this is a deep well gun control folks can tap in order to get support? This times piece strains credulity. Kundu claims to be a master...
  • Blogging While Coptic NYT blogger asks if Weekly Standard writer was unduly influenced

    03/08/2013 4:20:32 PM PST · by Nachum · 4 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | 3/8/13 | Alana Goodman
    A New York Times blogger became ensnared in controversy yesterday after asking a Weekly Standard author whether he was a Coptic Christian and if this played a factor in his reporting on anti-American and anti-Semitic activist Samira Ibrahim. Weekly Standard writer Samuel Tadros broke the story of Ibrahims support for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Bulgarian bus bombing attack of 2012, resulting in the State Departments decision to defer its plan to honor Ibrahim with a womens courage award. But Times reporter Robert Mackey speculated on Twitter that Tadross religious background, which Mackey believed was Coptic Christian, might...
  • NYT Ignores Leftist Website Connection to FRC Shooter, Yet Suggested Palin Map Inspired Jared

    02/07/2013 8:59:49 PM PST · by Nachum · 3 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | 2/7/2013 | Clay Waters
    Floyd Corkins Jr. pleaded guilty on Wednesday to wounding a security guard at the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group fighting against gay marriage, on August 15 last year. Corkins was carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches at the time the restaurant chain noteworthy for its public, Christian-based opposition to gay marriage and intended to rub the sandwiches in his victims faces. The New York Times made do with a brief from Reuters that did not mention a vital angle
  • US newspapers accused of complicity as drone report reopens security debate

    02/07/2013 6:15:27 AM PST · by Cheerio · 4 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 6 February 2013 | Karen McVeigh
    New York Times and Washington Post knew about secret drone base in Saudi Arabia but agreed not to disclose it to the public US news organisations are facing accusations of complicity after it emerged that they bowed to pressure from the Obama administration not to disclose the existence of a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia despite knowing about it for a year. Amid renewed scrutiny over the Obama administration's secrecy over its targeted killing programme, media analysts and national security experts said the revelation that some newspapers had co-operated over the drone base had reopened the debate over the...
  • New York Times Op-Ed Accuses Tea Party Of 'Assaults On Public Officials'

    02/02/2013 5:56:44 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 19 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Looks like liberals are still trying to peddle the discredited allegation that Tea Party members attacked black members of Congress. The op-ed page of today's New York Times contains a column by James Sleeper, a long-time left-wing activist, now a lecturer at Yale. The gist is the grudging respect that Sleeper came to have for Ed Koch, the former New York City mayor who passed away two days ago. Sleeper writes of how as mayor, Koch wrestled to the ground a protester who had stormed the stage as he spoke and pelted him with eggs. Sleeper wrote that Koch's asking...
  • Nick Kristofs Piggishness NYT columnist retweets message comparing pro-Israel group to pigs

    01/16/2013 2:55:40 PM PST · by Nachum · 3 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | 1/16/13 | Adam Kredo
    New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is facing criticism after retweeting a controversial message that referred to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the National Rifle Association as the 2 most pig like lobbies in America. Longtime Israel critic M.J. Rosenberg, who was dumped by the liberal Media Matters for America for his use of borderline anti-Semitic language, authored the controversial tweet Wednesday afternoon. It called to mind recently unearthed statements by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that referred to Jews as pigs. OBAMA told the 2 most pig like lobbies, AIPAC & NRA, to drop dead in same month....
  • Krugman: Frightening Lack of Progressive Economists in the White House

    01/14/2013 10:44:48 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 9 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | January 14, 2013 | Elizabeth Harrington
    New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said it is frightening that the Obama administration has never included progressive economists, who have been right about everything so far. I think its frightening that at no point in this administration have there been any serious representation of what you might call the progressive economist wing, which is a pretty big part of Obamas support, Krugman said Sunday in an appearance on ABCs This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Krugman, a Keynesian economist, has long advocated for more stimulus spending, saying the $833-billion stimulus package of 2009 did not spend enough.
  • Answering an Atheist and Asking for Fairness and Accuracy

    01/11/2013 3:03:24 PM PST · by NYer · 12 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | January 11, 2013 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Susan Jacoby, an author and atheist wrote a column in last Sunday’s New Your Times entitled “The Blessings of Atheism.” In it she proposes that atheism has a lot to offer, especially in times of tragic loss and that it frees human beings from having to ask and answer difficult question. As you may imagine, I am not so sure that asserting a question can be avoided means that it has actually been avoided, or that what she calls blessings are in fact blessings.I would like to excerpt her article and make a few comments. Her original writing is in...
  • Major Shakeout Looms for Top New York Times Editors (Pink Slips, Hope and Change!)

    01/11/2013 10:05:15 AM PST · by jimbo123 · 47 replies
    New York Mag ^ | 1/11/13 | Joe Hagan
    The next two weeks are going to get tense inside the headquarters of the New York Times. Last month, executive editor Jill Abramson told the staff shed have to cut 30 positions from the news division to buffer against financial losses from rapidly declining advertising revenue. Reporters and editors would be offered buyouts, she said, but if she didn't have enough takers in a months time, she would be forced to go to layoffs. As the January 24 deadline approaches, only two people, assistant managing editor Jonathan Landman and reporter Jacques Steinberg, have formally announced their exits.
  • DOING THE RESEARCH THE NEW YORK TIMES WON'T DO [Ann Coulter Exposes Gun Control Fraud]

    01/11/2013 2:44:33 AM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 13 replies
    Anncoulter.com ^ | 1/9/13 | Ann Coulter
    In Sunday's New York Times, Elisabeth Rosenthal claimed, as the title of her article put it, "More Guns = More Killing." She based this on evidence that would never be permitted in any other context at the Times: (1) anecdotal observations; and (2) bald assertions of an activist, blandly repeated with absolutely no independent fact-checking by the Times. There is an academic, peer-reviewed, long-term study of the effect of various public policies on public, multiple shootings in all 50 states over a 20-year period...It concluded that the only policy to reduce the incidence of, and casualties from, mass shootings are...
  • The (New York) Times on Taxes

    01/02/2013 12:07:17 PM PST · by reaganaut1 · 2 replies
    The Grumpy Economist ^ | December 30, 2012 | John Cochrane
    ... The whale comes last: "Greater progressivity would reduce rising income inequality, and with it, inequality of opportunity that is both an economic and social scourge." The Times is arguing forthrightly for confiscatory taxation of income and wealth, in order simply to reduce post-tax incomes. This isn't "redistribution," it's "off with their heads!" Inequality of opportunity? No, President Obama's kids should not go to Sidwell Friends, they should go to DC public schools like everyone else? Mayor Rahm Emanuel's kids shouldn't go to the University of Chicago Lab school (mine go there too, but I don't preach this stuff), they...
  • The G.O.P.s Existential Crisis (NYT version why we're not actually in debt, and the GOP is dying)

    12/14/2012 9:38:35 AM PST · by darrellmaurina · 13 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 12/13/2012 | Paul Krugman
    We are not having a debt crisis. Its important to make this point, because I keep seeing articles about the fiscal cliff that do, in fact, describe it often in the headline as a debt crisis. But it isnt. The U.S. government is having no trouble borrowing to cover its deficit. In fact, its borrowing costs are near historic lows. And even the confrontation over the debt ceiling that looms a few months from now if we do somehow manage to avoid going over the fiscal cliff isnt really about debt. No, what were having is a political...
  • PBS NewsHour Fails To Press Left-Wing Activist on Entitlement Inaccuracies

    12/08/2012 10:59:35 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 3 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | December 07, 2012 | 18:47 | Matt Vespa
    The PBS NewsHour has yet to invite a strong conservative on the program to talk about the fiscal cliff. Tuesday night they had New York Times columnist, left-wing economist, and Obama cheerleader Paul Krugman to detail his view. Wednesday night they had moderately-conservative Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn), but last night was the most interesting. PBS invited the Norquist of the left, Max Richtman, of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, who insisted we shouldnt be in a rush to reform our entitlement spending. After all, when the unfunded liability of both programs is around $100 trillion, whats...
  • DECONSTRUCTING N.Y. TIMES' ANTI-FIREARMS BLATHER

    12/04/2012 5:34:48 AM PST · by marktwain · 9 replies
    WND ^ | 30 November, 2012 | Jeff Knox
    The New York Times might contain all the news fit to print, but it also contains bias, distortion and outright lies supporting failed policies and irrational fears. On Black Friday, as Americans were setting another record in single-day firearm purchases, the Times editorial board was decrying the lack of action in Congress on gun control and calling for President Obama to keep his promises to pursue gun-control legislation. In typical, disingenuous Times fashion, they denigrated gun owners for taking Obamas tepid remark about gun control during the presidential debates as a threat, and then characterized these same remarks from Obama...
  • New York Times Offers Newsroom Buyouts; About 30 jobs will be eliminated

    12/03/2012 2:42:48 PM PST · by jimbo123 · 27 replies
    Adweek ^ | 12/3/12 | Emma Bazilian
    The New York Times is attempting to save costs by implementing another round of newsroom staff cuts. According to a memo sent by executive editor Jill Abramson this morning, the newspaper is looking for 30 buyouts among newsroom staff. Over the next few days, Abramson wrote, certain employees will be asked to accept voluntary severance packages. (Newspaper Guild members also have the option to apply for a buyout even if theyre not among those contacted by the NYT.) If the quota isnt met through buyouts, Abramson will be forced to go to layoffs, she said.
  • The New York Times' latest cutbacks: Proof its digital strategy is failing?

    12/03/2012 2:23:13 PM PST · by Beave Meister · 5 replies
    The Week ^ | 12/3/2012 | Ryu Spaeth
    he New York Times on Monday announced that it would offer buyout packages to 30 newsroom employees, and that layoffs would ensue if the 30 spots were not voluntarily filled. Citing a difficult "economic environment" that has led in recent years to a 60 percent staff reduction on the paper's business side, Executive Editor Jill Abramson said, "There is no getting around the hard news that the size of the newsroom staff must be reduced." While the loss of 30 jobs pales in comparison to the ousting of roughly 100 newsroom staffers in 2008, it is the latest evidence that...
  • Times Expert Says Scandals Arent Scandals

    11/28/2012 12:43:05 PM PST · by Academiadotorg · 3 replies
    Accuracy In Media ^ | November 21, 2012 | Cliff Kincaid
    Columbia University has a director of the center for gender and sexuality law by the name of Katherine Franke who is considered an authority on sexual matters by The New York Times. Her position seems to be that recent scandals in the news are not really scandalous, except in terms of being sensationalized and overblown by the media. She told the paper that Kevin Clash and David Petraeus were victims of a sex panic when they resigned from their respective positions. The Times story written by Elizabeth Jensen and Brian Stelter is noteworthy for the claim that Clash, the...
  • To Vilify Israel, NYT Claims Slain Terrorists Were Journalists

    11/28/2012 12:29:18 PM PST · by Nachum · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/20/12 | William Bigelow
    The New York Times, in its reprehensible campaign to vilify Israel and whitewash Hamas, has resorted to lying about terrorists Israel has killed by pretending the targets were journalists. The author, one David Carr, reported in a piece titled Using War as Cover to Target Journalists that two senior Hamas terrorists Israel killed last week were journalists. Carr claims that the two terrorists, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, were cameramen for Al-Aqsa TV, which is run by Hamas. They were supposedly covering the Gaza conflict when a missile struck their car. What Carr didnt report was that the two men...
  • NYT Once Again Unaware of Terrorists in Gaza See no terrorists, hear no terrorists

    11/19/2012 6:09:30 PM PST · by Nachum · 4 replies
    free beacon ^ | 11/19/12 | staff
    The New York Times once again appears to be unaware of the presence of terrorists in the Gaza Strip. In a new report on developments in the latest round of Israel-Hamas violence, the Times says: On Sunday, Israeli forces attacked two buildings housing local broadcasters and production companies used by foreign outlets. Israeli officials denied targeting journalists, but on Monday Israeli forces again blasted the Al Sharouk block, a multiuse building where many local broadcasters, as well as Sky News of Britain and the channel Al Arabiya, had offices. That attack, which struck a computer shop on the third floor,...
  • Washington Posts Chief Falters Anew (Media Deathwatch)

    11/18/2012 9:30:07 PM PST · by Beave Meister · 9 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 1/18/2012 | DAVID CARR
    At 11:45 a.m. last Tuesday, the editorial staff of The Washington Post was summoned on short notice to an announcement on the fifth floor of its building to hear something they already knew that Marcus Brauchli would be leaving after four years as executive editor. After Mr. Brauchli spoke, Katharine Weymouth, the newspapers publisher, told employees that he would be replaced by Marty Baron, the editor of The Boston Globe. As the meeting was concluding, Valerie Strauss, a longtime reporter, asked Ms. Weymouth why she was making the change. Ms. Weymouth, perhaps because of employment agreements that limited what...
  • New York Times new President/CEO says Christianity is based on objective truth

    11/13/2012 2:23:35 PM PST · by NYer · 27 replies
    nycreligion ^ | November 13, 2012 | Tony Carnes
    Tomorrow, Mark Thompson takes over as the new President and CEO of The New York Times. Thompson is a practicing Catholic who believes "that the truths of the Christian faith are objective truths, rather than being entirely subjective."The position is primarily focused on running the business aspects of the Times. Thompson turned the British Broadcasting Company into a global online media powerhouse, and the Times management feels that he could do the same here.The New York Times Company announced on August 14th that Thompson would become its new President and CEO. Thompson left the position as director-general of the British...
  • Thompson starts as NY Times CEO amid BBC scandal (Pedophile enabler now in charge at NYT)

    11/13/2012 6:36:04 AM PST · by jimbo123 · 8 replies
    AP ^ | 11/13/12 | AP
    New York Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson is starting his job on Monday amid a widening scandal at his former employer, the BBC. When the Times hired him in August, Thompson was hailed as someone who could help the company generate new revenue at a time when print publications are suffering from the loss of readers and advertisers. Thompson had spent eight years as director-general of the British Broadcasting Corp., a publicly funded television network that boasts a weekly global audience of 166 million people over multiple platforms, including radio, digital satellite and cable channels. In recent months, Thompson has...
  • Barack Obama for Re-Election [The New York Times.......]

    10/27/2012 4:48:49 PM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 45 replies
    Barack Obama for Re-Election The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding womens access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans rights are cheapened by the right wings determination to deny marriage benefits to...
  • Disgraceful: NY Times Still Blames YouTube Video for Riots in Libya

    10/24/2012 7:58:00 AM PDT · by Qbert · 15 replies
    JWF ^ | Oct 24, 2012 | Jammie
    We noted this absurdity already here, but this is worth its own post. In light of the stunning news that the White House was aware of the Benghazi terror attack as it happened, the New York Times still actually reports the YouTube video was behind “riots” in Libya. This just defies belief: Beyond the political issues, the film may carry the risk of associating Mr. Obama with any backlash in a Muslim world already inflamed by the YouTube trailer for an insulting film portrayal of its prophet. In September riots erupted in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere as Muslim crowds reacted...
  • NY Times Spiked McCaskill Corruption Story After Tipping Her Off

    10/22/2012 3:35:42 PM PDT · by Nachum · 18 replies
    fox ^ | 10/22/12 | Matthew Boyle
    A spokeswoman for Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskills re-election campaign told The Daily Caller that the senator and her husband first learned the criminal background of the man speaking out McCaskills husbands business dealings from The New York Times. McCaskill spokeswoman Caitlin Legacki told TheDC on Friday that she thinks McCaskill and her husband Joseph Shepard discovered Craig Woods criminal background [w]hen the New York Times told me in June that hes a felon. TheDC reported Thursday that Woods, a former employee of Shepards, alleged in a 2011 audiotape that Shepard used the U.S. Senate dining room to cut business...
  • Connecting the Dots in Libya

    10/21/2012 7:49:50 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 14 replies
    New York Times ^ | October 20, 2012 | By MARGARET SULLIVAN, the Public Editor
    WHEN I wrote on my blog recently about The Timess decision not to give front-page coverage to a Congressional hearing on the consulate attack in Libya, hundreds of e-mails and comments poured in. The amount and vehemence of the reader response struck me as important. I drew a couple of conclusions. First, it is utterly wrong to say that The Times has ignored or buried the Libya story. Second, to be more critical, the Libya coverage has not consistently and effectively helped readers make sense of what is happening. The Times has not effectively connected the dots in a murky,...
  • Why Wasnt Libya Hearing on Page A1 of The Times?

    10/14/2012 6:06:41 PM PDT · by RummyChick · 28 replies
    nytimes ^ | 10/11 | MARGARET SULLIVAN
    Stories about Wednesdays Congressional hearing on Libya were prominently displayed on the front pages of major newspapers throughout the United States on Thursday morning. The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, for example, both led with the story, meaning that editors placed it in the primary news position on their front pages. But The New York Times was not among them
  • Pat Caddell Says: Media Have Become "Enemy of the American People"

    09/30/2012 6:25:36 PM PDT · by PBRCat · 29 replies
    Accuracy in Media ^ | September 27, 2012 | Pat Caddell
    Weve had nine day of lies over what happened because they cant dare say its a terrorist attack, and the press wont push this, said Caddell. Yesterday there was not a single piece in The New York Times over the question of Libya. Twenty American embassies, yesterday, are under attack. None of that is on the national news. None of it is being pressed in the papers. Caddell added that it is one thing for the news to have a biased view, but It is another thing to specifically decide that you will not tell the American people information they...
  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1926 - 2012

    09/30/2012 6:11:02 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 30 replies
    NYT ^ | September 28, 2012 | CLYDE HABERMAN
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspapers founding in 1851, died early Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 86.
  • CNN, newspapers hammered as Americans turn to mobile news

    09/28/2012 12:02:05 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 9 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 9/28/2012 | Paul Bedard
    Americans are fast turning to mobile devices to get their news, resulting in stunning viewership declines for CNN and existence-threatening readership drops for newspapers, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The winners: social network sites, online news and websites like the Drudge Report and Yahoo. In Pew's latest look at trends in news consumption, Americans said that they have turned away from CNN. In just four years, the percentage of those who say they watch CNN has dropped from 24 percent to 16 percent. Viewership of the competing cable giants, Fox and MSNBC, has remained fairly stable with...
  • Something is Wrong

    09/25/2012 5:03:26 AM PDT · by Lacey · 87 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | 09/24/2012 | Ben Stein
    Have you noticed that in the past few years, and especially in the past few weeks since the murder of the Ambassador and his guards and colleague in Benghazi (a city that Erwin Rommel loved and whose inhabitants he praised), whenever the New York Times refers to Mohammed, they always call him, without quotation marks, The Prophet Mohammed, as if everyone with any sense understands that OF COURSE Mohammed is The One True Prophet and that it's just understood that Mohammed is The Prophet.
  • NYT Maureen Dowd Uses Anti-Semitic Stereotypes In Romney Hit Piece, Obama Campaign Responds

    09/17/2012 2:24:25 PM PDT · by NYer · 35 replies
    Weasel Zippers ^ | September 17, 2012
    Via Mediaite: Long-time New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd is facing a significant backlash over her latest column in which she uses a number of medieval, anti-Semitic stereotypes to describe neoconservatives and, specifically, Dan Senor, a close advisor to Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan.In Dowd’s latest column, Neocons Slither Back, she describes Ryan’s senior advisor as snake-like. Dowd also describes Senor as the “puppet master” behind Ryan’s supposed lurch towards a neoconservative foreign policy critique of President Barack Obama. This, too, is a trope used for centuries to villainize Jews.Commentary Magazine’s Jonathan Tobin savaged Dowd’s column as “creepy”...
  • New York Times Buries Attacks...

    09/12/2012 6:05:45 AM PDT · by Unam Sanctam · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | September 12, 2012 | Joel B. Pollak
    The New York Times' coverage of the radical Islamist attacks on 9/11 on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi begins--like the Obama administration--with acknowledging "anger" over an anti-Islamic film, not with the attacks themselves--and criticizes Republican Mitt Romney's statement on Obama's apology. The Times' headline, "Anger Over a Film Fuels Anti-American Attacks in Libya and Egypt"--Update: buried on page A4!--does not even inform readers that U.S. diplomatic missions were attacked, or the fact that one official in Libya was actually killed. The article goes on to criticize Mitt Romney for his allegation that "the Obama...
  • New York Times Proves Clint Eastwood Correct -- Obama Is Lousy CEO

    09/04/2012 9:35:28 AM PDT · by smoothsailing · 22 replies
    Forbes ^ | 9-3-2012 | Rich Karlgaard - Commentary
    A New York Times front page story today New York Times! might have killed President Obamas re-election hopes.The story is called The Competitor in Chief Obama Plays To Win, In Politics and Everything Else.It is devastating.With such a title, and from such a friendly organ, at first I thought Jodi Kantors piece would be a collection of Obamas greatest political wins: His rapid rise in Illinois, his win over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, the passage of health care, and so on.But the NYT piece is not about any of that. Rather, it is a...
  • NY Times Outraged Republicans Didnt Pander To Gays During RNC

    09/03/2012 6:33:11 AM PDT · by NYer · 49 replies
    Weasel Zippers ^ | September 3, 2012
    Gays constitute a tiny minority of the U.S. population, less than 2% to be precise.Excluded From Inclusion – NYT WHAT the Republicans painstakingly constructed here was meant to look like the biggest of tents. And still they couldn’t spare so much as a sleeping bag’s worth of space for the likes of me.Women were welcomed. During the prime evening television hours, the convention stage was festooned with them, and when they weren’t at the microphone, they were front and center in men’s remarks. Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney both gushed about their moms in tributes as tactical as they were...
  • Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA

    08/30/2012 7:22:09 PM PDT · by Perdogg · 8 replies
    The rightwing transparency group, Judicial Watch, released Tuesday a new batch of documents showing how eagerly the Obama administration shoveled information to Hollywood film-makers about the Bin Laden raid. Obama officials did so to enable the production of a politically beneficial pre-election film about that "heroic" killing, even as administration lawyers insisted to federal courts and media outlets that no disclosure was permissible because the raid was classified.
  • New York Times Puts 'Son of Satan' Ryan on Front Page

    08/30/2012 1:17:57 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 46 replies
    weeklystandard.com ^ | August. 30, 2012 | Michael Warren
    Here's the front page for the New York Times's national edition, the day after Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican National Convention: Peter Roskam, the Illinois Republican congressman and deputy majority whip, said the front page makes Ryan look like the "son of Satan."
  • New York Times Editor Notes Paper's Bias on Gay Marriage

    08/29/2012 6:23:03 AM PDT · by scottjewell · 5 replies
    Not surprised but happy to see it admitted! This from Arthur Brisbane, public editor of the New York Times: "...I also noted two years ago that I had taken up the public editor duties believing there is no conspiracy and that The Timess output was too vast and complex to be dictated by any Wizard of Oz-like individual or cabal. I still believe that, but also see that the hive on Eighth Avenue is powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds a phenomenon, I believe, that is more easily recognized from without than from within. When The Times...