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In his 1842 classic "Morte d'Arthur," Alfred Lord Tennyson has the dying King Arthur say to his mourners: The old order changeth, yielding place to new; and God fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Those Famous Last Words can now apply to two of the best-known and once widely read institutions in the United States, the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. Along with almost all of U.S. daily newspapers, these strongly liberal – one of them a one-time toppler of a president of the United States – are beginning to lose,...

The New York Times, always finding ways to slur and cast doubts about our military forces has produced another splendid propaganda piece. That is the only mission of the Old Gray Lady. We learn that our brave military people have been trained to be mean-streets killers and because of stress and other reasons they turn into crazed murderers.  The article Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles [1] was written by DEBORAH SONTAG and LIZETTE ALVAREZ and is the first in a ‘series’ entitled War Torn Part 1: A series of articles and multimedia about veterans of the wars in...

The NYT's agenda journalism defames another generation of veterans, and gets sharp response

Every major daily paper in New York took note of President Bush's deci sion to bestow the first Medal of Honor of Operation Enduring Freedom on Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy - a Long Islander who gave his life for his country and his fellow SEALs. Every paper but one, that is. And it shouldn't be particularly hard to guess which one. By now, most folks know exactly how much The New York Times despises the U.S. military. How it detests any mission that involves U.S. troops - whether to protect Americans by killing terrorists or to help stave off...

FOR nearly two weeks, The New York Times has been defending a political advertisement that critics say was an unfair shot at the American commander in Iraq. But I think the ad violated The Times’s own written standards, and the paper now says that the advertiser got a price break it was not entitled to... Did MoveOn.org get favored treatment from The Times? And was the ad outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse? The answer to the first question is that MoveOn.org paid what is known in the newspaper industry as a standby rate of $64,575 that it should...

FOR nearly two weeks, The New York Times has been defending a political advertisement that critics say was an unfair shot at the American commander in Iraq. But I think the ad violated The Times’s own written standards, and the paper now says that the advertiser got a price break it was not entitled to... ---snip--- Did MoveOn.org get favored treatment from The Times? And was the ad outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse? The answer to the first question is that MoveOn.org paid what is known in the newspaper industry as a standby rate of $64,575 that it...

September 13, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The New York Times dramatically slashed its normal rates for a full-page advertisement for MoveOn.org's ad questioning the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. Headlined "Cooking the Books for the White House," the ad which ran in Monday's Times says Petraeus is "a military man constantly at war with the facts" and concluded - even before he testified before Congress - that "General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us." According to Abbe Serphos, director of public relations for the Times, "the open rate for an ad...

September 14, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and other Republicans and conservatives demanded yesterday that The New York Times run a full-page ad responding to the one it ran attacking Gen. David Petraeus - at the same slashed price. "This is unprecedented," Giuliani said yesterday. "I call upon The New York Times to give us the same rate, the discount, heavily discounted rate they give MoveOn.org for that abominable ad." Headlined "Cooking the Books for the White House," the MoveOn ad that ran in Monday's Times called Petraeus "a military man constantly at war with the facts"...

...In other words, the Dems want to keep the troops in their places. The Dems want to appear to the rest of America that they have the troops best interests at heart. The Dems want the troops’ votes, and they are stymied by the fact that in an unpopular war, the military enlistment and reenlistment rates continue to meet or exceed goal, and the troops — by and large — don’t vote for Democrats. So the Left in this country actually has two problems when it comes to Iraq: First, we’re making solid gains in a very tough counterinsurgency. Petraeus...

You can see a full size PDF of today’s MoveOn.org ad in today’s New York Times by clicking on the accompanying image. I’ve got to say that this is probably the most disgusting piece of political hackery since Grover Cleveland had to endure taunts of “Ma, Ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House. Ha, ha, ha.” It will be interesting to see what the Democrat Party’s reaction to this will be. Radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt highlights a comment from a Los Angeles Times online debate that attempts to spin the “betray us” as the rhetorical equivalent...

Again it comes, for the sixth time now — 2,191 days after that awful morning — falling for the first time on a Tuesday, the same day of the week. Again there will be the public tributes, the tightly scripted memorial events, the reflex news coverage, the souvenir peddlers. Is all of it necessary, at the same decibel level — still?

August 19, 2007 -- IT pays to write a rave review in The New York Times. The paper's perfume critic, Chandler Burr, admits accepting free samples of a French fragrance to which he'd given a 5-star writeup last year - and then giving the perfume to patrons of a $200-a-head dinner he hosted this month.

Lately, the New York Times's Public Editor has been on a tear about the fact that the paper's reporters and editors can't spell, a fact which we noted here. They can't multiply, either. In today's Corrections section, the paper corrects a prior mathematical error:An article on Tuesday about the governing party of Turkey’s presidential nomination of Abdullah Gul, an economist and practicing Muslim, misstated the number of votes he would need to win confirmation in the 500-seat Parliament if he failed in the first two rounds of voting, when a two-thirds majority, or 367 votes, is required. In a third...

According to a report, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's (D) staff has been using the NY State Police to harass and spy on his political opponents. And guess what word is curiously missing from the 1,000 word NYT story:

WHEN the Republicans in Congress impeached President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, they insisted that it wasn’t about sex, it was about lying. Of course that wasn’t true. Even at the height of their power-mad self-delusions (when Newt Gingrich was conducting his own affair with an aide while prosecuting the president), Republicans realized that to make lying an impeachable offense was opening a door no politician should eagerly walk through.

Sally Denton uses today's Los Angeles Times op-ed page as a launching pad for the movie based on her book, "American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857," and as a means to propagate more anti-Mormon bigotry at the expense of Mitt Romney. Denton insists that Romney has to respond about the nature of his faith if he expects to win the nomination for the Presidency -- and uses a lot of 19th-century examples to "prove" her case: MITT ROMNEY'S Mormonism threatens his presidential candidacy in the same way that John F. Kennedy's Catholicism did when he ran for...

In a surprise in their Sunday Week in Review section, The New York Times assigned a correspondent to question leftist filmmaker Michael Moore’s math about Cuba having a better health care system than the United States: "How could a poor developing country — where annual health care spending averages just $230 a person compared with $6,096 in the United States — come anywhere near matching the richest country in the world?" Correspondent Anthony DePalma found experts who granted points to Cuba’s "universal" health care, but also pointed to the communist dictatorship’s high rates of abortion and emigration, and ironically, its...

The article makes several comparisons of Iraqi refugees to Palestinians. Unfortunately it makes no mention of the fact that the Palestinians became refugees due to a war launched by Arab countries seeking to destroy the State of Israel after it was created by United Nations vote. The article also fails to mention the nearly 1 million Jewish refugees who were expelled by Arab countries after 1948, who lived in Jewish communities throughout the region for more than 2,500 years. Today there are approximately only 30,000 Jews remaining in those lands while nearly 1.5 million Arabs live in Israel.

A motorist in Helsingborg has been ordered to pay back over a quarter of a million kronor in disability benefits after claiming to be blind for a period of ten years. The person in question was caught driving a car on three separate occasions while at the same time receiving benefits totalling 268,000 kronor ($38,500). The Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) explained its decision to request reimbursement in a letter to the individual concerned: "While investigating your case in the autumn of 2006, we received information suggesting that you cannot be considered sightless.

Former President Clinton has crafted a crossword puzzle for the Web site of The New York Times Magazine. The puzzle is appearing this week. Jim Schachter, deputy editor of the magazine, said says Clinton was given the grid with the letters and asked to provide clues for the words...

Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining by Keach Hagey May 1st, 2007 Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits. The news didn't make everyone all googly-eyed. In fact, some people at the paper's annual stockholders meeting in the New Amsterdam Theatre exchanged confused...

The Times admitted it distributed an article in the March 18 edition of its Sunday Magazine, while knowing the story contained some glaring inaccuracies. The article was about women who served in Iraq, the sexual abuse some say they endured, and their struggles in reclaiming their pre-war lives. But one of the women profiled, who said she'd been raped twice and suffered brain damage when a roadside bomb exploded next to her Humvee, was never actually IN Iraq.

Gotcha! That's what Bill O'Reilly told his viewers Thursday night as he nabbed the New York Times in publishing a phony story. On Thursday, the paper ran an editorial claiming that "a screaming baby girl has been forcibly weaned from breast milk and taken, dehydrated, to an emergency room, so that the nation’s borders will be secure." But on his Fox News show Thursday night, O'Reilly said the the Times report was made up out of whole cloth

Top New York Times [NYT] Co. executives Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Janet Robinson took in more than $4 million each in compensation packages last year while planning as many as 125 job cuts in Massachusetts. Even as Times Co. shares slid by nearly 8 percent last year, CEO Robinson’s salary rose 11 percent to $1 million. That brings it “more in line” with the salaries of CEOs at similar companies, the Times Co. said in its annual proxy statement released yesterday. Sulzberger, chairman and publisher of the company, received a compensation package valued around $4.3 million and Robinson’s compensation was...

The Ochs-Sulzberger family, which controls The New York Times Company, said yesterday that it was withdrawing most of its personal assets, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, from Morgan Stanley. “Custody of the majority of the assets of the Ochs-Sulzberger family are being moved from Morgan Stanley to another institution,” said Catherine J. Mathis, a spokeswoman for the Times Company. Through a spokesman, the family also declined to comment. The withdrawal was apparently first reported online by CNNMoney.com, which suggested that the move was in retaliation against one of Morgan Stanley’s fund managers, who has been critical of the company’s...

New York Times Gets Another Story Very Wrong - This Time it’s about Marriage Accused of “journalistic malpractice” for skewing stats to incorrectly show most women not marrying By Peter Smith NEW YORK, January 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Times has once again published another 'hit piece' on the institution of marriage, alleging that for “the first time more American women are living without a husband than with one”. However, US census data for 2005 shows that the January 16th front-page story in the New York Times is just another disturbing showcase of the Times’ tolerance for...

The New York Times has once again published another 'hit piece' on the institution of marriage, alleging that for “the first time more American women are living without a husband than with one”. However, US census data for 2005 shows that the January 16th front-page story in the New York Times is just another disturbing showcase of the Times’ tolerance for “journalistic malpractice”. “For what experts say is probably the first time,” writes Sam Roberts on the Times front page, “more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census...

Times Watch Presents the Quotes of Note for 2006 Presenting the absolute worst quotes of the year from the New York Times, including the much-prized Quote of the Year. Who won? Posted by: Clay Waters 12/19/2006 9:15:43 AM Times Watch Quotes of Note 2006 The Worst Quotes of the Year from The New York Times It's unanimous! Times Watch guest judges Stephen Spruiell, who runs National Review Online's Media Blog, and Times critic William McGowan, author of the upcoming book Gray Lady Down, both picked......

What Did Rahm Emanuel Know about Foley Emails? The Times Doesn't Care Jeff Zeleny, former Chicago Tribune reporter, shows no interest in Chicago-based Rep. Rahm Emanuel's possible knowledge of the notorious Marc Foley emails to a page a year before they were made public. Posted by: Clay Waters 12/11/2006 2:57:03 PM New Times reporter Jeff Zeleny apparently left all his curiosity about Illinois politicians behind when he left the Chicago Tribune this fall for the Times. His Saturday story on the Foley report, "Ethics Inquiry Faults Republicans, but Cites No Rule Violations," begins: "The House ethics committee said Friday that...

Times Watch Quotes of Note: Nope, Bo Bias Here Posted by: Clay Waters 12/15/2006 1:14:51 PM Nope, No Bias Here "Augusto Pinochet, 91, Dictator Who Ruled by Terror in Chile, Dies" – Times Headline from December 11, 2006. vs. "Kim Il Sung, Enigmatic 'Great Leader' of North Korea for 5 Decades, Dies at 82." – Times Headline from July 10, 1994. No Bias Here, Part II " At the United Nations, [U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick] defended Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. She argued for El Salvador's right-wing junta and against Nicaragua’s...

When Tim LaHaye talks, the faithful listen—by the millions. The conservative Protestant minister is the coauthor of the wildly popular apocalyptic “Left Behind” novels. The controversial books, which have sold more than 60 million copies, depict the biblical end of the world: the Christian eschatology of the upheaval that precedes the second coming of Jesus Christ, known also as “end times.” LaHaye recently spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Brian Braiker about why he believes the events currently unfolding in the Middle East reflect biblical prophesy.

"The labor market for American workers is continuing to improve, the latest government statistics showed yesterday, with job growth advancing in recent months and the unemployment rate falling last month to the lowest level since May 2001. In a report that eased concerns that economic growth might be faltering, the Labor Department reported yesterday that the jobless rate, seasonally adjusted, dropped in October to 4.4 percent, from 4.6 percent in September."--news story, New York Times, Nov. 4 "The latest information about the economy leaves no question that it has slowed down by just about every measure--housing and manufacturing, retail sales...

The Times sets their premise quite straightforwardly with their very first sentence in a recent discussion of a new theory on the source of morals being promulgated by Harvard biologist, Marc D. Hauser. Who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong? Yet that essential knowledge, generally assumed to come from parental teaching or religious or legal instruction, could turn out to have a quite different origin. What follows is several slaps at religion, the Times asserting that religion has nothing to do with morals short of serving as "social enforcers of instinctive moral behavior". But the Times seems not...

The New York Times is sure that voters are losing their rights the country over, in essence yelling "the sky is falling, the sky is falling" for voters this year. They have been ballyhooing that voters are being "disenfranchised" all across the country by voting machines and voting law changes -- their biggest worry being ID requirements. The Times points in horror to the continuing effort of the States to nail down who is eligible and a proliferation of new laws assuring that eligibility before casting a ballot claiming this is proof of such "disenfranchisement". Ridiculously, the Times has decided...

Last week my high school celebrated its 50th anniversary. In connection with this a number of "Career Panels" were held where former graduates spoke to current students about their lives. I sat in (as a listener) on one of these panels. One of the speakers I listened to was Bruce King, who said he was currently a legislative aide to Senator Harry Reid. (He also mentioned a list of other vipers he had previously worked for.) And one of the things he mentioned in the five minutes or so that he spoke, was how "cool" it was to see his...

Dark times ahead for chocolate By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor (Filed: 14/10/2006) Britain's taste for chocolate is growing more sophisticated, figures out yesterday suggest. Sales of dark chocolate have trebled in a year, while the number of dark mainstream brands has risen tenfold. Confectionary analysts say the figures reflect a more discerning palate. They also follow several studies — some funded by chocolate makers — indicating that dark chocolate can have health benefits. Antioxidants in dark chocolate can help lower cholesterol and blood pressure, say researchers. However, dark and milk contain the same amount of fat and sugar. Although...

Bob Dylan's Modern Times. Released Aug 29,2006. I purchased this CD today and listened to it in it's entirity. It's an excellent album, and has some really good moments on it. I think Bob Dylan fans will like this release. I purchased a limited edition version that has a DVD in it also. The CD has 10 new Bob Dylan songs on it, and the DVD has 4 previously released songs... (I've not viewed the DVD yet). The CD starts fast and plays strong. Songs 4, 5, and 6 come together in a strong way making my favorite portion of...

In response to The New York Times' decision to publish top secret information regarding how the government tracks financial transactions of terrorists, Sergeant Timothy Boggs wrote the following letter to The Times: Mr. Keller, What ceases to amaze me about your paper is the lengths you are willing to go to make headlines and sell papers. Who cares if those headlines help the enemies of America, you guys are making money and that is what it is all about in the end right? Your recent decision to publish information about a classified program intended to track the banking transactions of...

(IsraelNN.com) Temple Mount Faithful organization activists on Thursday morning held their annual Tisha B’Av cornerstone ceremony near the Mugrabi Gate after police ruled they are banned from the Mount. The participants wished to lay a cornerstone for the Third Temple on the Mount, today, Tisha B’Av, the day marking the destruction of the First and Second Temples, but non-Muslim worshipers are prohibited from entering the Mount today by police.

A Christian for the N.Y. Times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 3, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who says the New York Times is anti-Christian? Why just the other day, I read a beautiful profile of an evangelical mega-church pastor from Minnesota. You could just tell the reporter for the Times loved the Rev. Gregory A. Boyd. It isn't Christians the Times loathes. It's just right-wing Christians. And so does the Rev. Gregory Boyd. Boyd has some interesting ideas – given that he claims to base his beliefs on the same Bible I read. But let's start with abortion...

Three Billionaires Bidding for LA Times Three billionaires, including Hollywood mogul David Geffen, have expressed interest in buying the Los Angeles Times, but have been rebuffed for the time being by its owner, Tribune Co., the paper reported. Geffen, property developer Eli Broad and supermarket investor Ron Burkle each wrote to the board of directors of the Chicago-based firm, which is under pressure from shareholders to boost its flagging share price, the paper said in its Saturday edition. The report, citing unidentified sources, said Tribune's directors considered the three letters at a July 19 board meeting. Tribune Chairman and Chief...

A Los Angeles Times editor, hoping to give his journalists a break from reporting the often grim news in America's second-largest city, offered an unusual morale booster Monday: pony rides. Managing Editor Doug Frantz ..."I hope it boosted morale..." Like many major U.S. newspapers, the Times, forced to compete with news Web sites on the Internet, has seen circulation decline.

YUSUFIYAH – The sounds of car horns honking and chickens squawking were a soundtrack for prosperity at a market just south of Baghdad on July 13, where vendors displayed everything from clothing to ice and vegetables in this once insurgent-infested town. American, British and Iraqi forces fought pitched battles here in the fall of 2004, during a sweep of insurgents still loyal to Saddam's regime. Today, the market is full of faces looking forward to peaceful and uneventful days. “Before the American Army came to this area, it was full of insurgents and thieves and killers,” said Ali, who declined...

Sorry if this has been posted in the past--but I was wondering which sites everyone considered "good" or "legitmate" prophetic/prophetic news sites were. Just trying to expand my reading and studying time on the subject. I know about Van Impe,et al, but not sure I trust the intent of these guys. Thanks in advance!

<p>The New York Times is planning to reduce the size of the newspaper, making it narrower by one and a half inches, and to close its printing operation in Edison, N.J., company officials said yesterday.</p> <p>The changes, to go into effect in April 2008, will be accompanied by a phased-in redesign of the paper and will mean the loss of 250 production-related jobs.</p>

NEW YORK -- The New York Times plans to cut 1,050 jobs and shrink the size of its pages in 2008, making them one-and-a-half inches narrower, the newspaper reported in today's edition. ADVERTISEMENT The job cuts include 800 positions at a New Jersey printing plant whose workload will shift to another in New York City, the article said, estimating the moves would save $42 million per year. The reduction in the size of its pages would mean a loss of 11 percent of the space devoted to news, but the newspaper plans to add pages to make up for about...

The True Lover Of God Mary Lindow Jun 25 2006 06:04PM THE TRUE LOVER OF GOD DOES NOT NEED TO BE LAVISHED UPON BY MAN THE PRESENT EVILS AND PRESSURES OF OUR TIME ARE NOT NEW TO GOD OR......TO THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD! The Bride of Christ has been either over stroked with false platitudes or has been allowed to be spoiled with a gluttony of self-love, self-analysis, and self-promotion. All members of the Lord’s Body, leaders and simple followers, have all had the virus of “I WANNA BE SOMEBODY” attempt to sidetrack and infect the human nature side...

So House Intel Committee chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) has blasted the White House for keeping Congress in the dark about some heretofore unknown "Intelligence Community activities." The lack of disclosure may represent... a violation of the law," Hoekstra wrote in a May 17 letter to the President. Now, Washington is wondering: who told the chairman about the intel program? TPM Muckraker has an educated guess: former NSA analyst Russ Tice, who was a source on the New York Times' domestic surveillance scoop. In an e-mail to Defense Tech, Tice says he "do[es] not know for sure" whether he was the...

In the dust of Independence Day lies a teachable moment too poignant for me to pass up. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration and a gang of ideologues and neoconservatives have been piling on The New York Times for reporting that the U.S. government was tracking money transfers handled by a Belgium-based banking consortium as part of its counterterrorism efforts. That revelation, which was also reported by the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, has led to an avalanche of condemnations and craziness. One Republican congressman has called for The Times' congressional press credentials to be...