NY Times’ Rosenthal Does Stand-Up Comedy

Boycott The New York Times ^ | October 27, 2008 | Don Feder

[AIM Freeper]

Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of National Advertisers, New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal said the paper “aims to ensure opinion and news are kept separate, even as the Internet increasingly blurs the line” (as reported in Advertising Age on October 17).

Stop, you’re killing me! The New York Times is to journalistic integrity what Vlad The Impaler was to “can’t-we-all-just-learn-to-get-along?”

The public doesn’t share Rosenthal’s perspective. Earlier this year, a Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 24% of American voters have a favorable opinion of The New York Times - making the paper as almost as popular as trail lawyers.

On October 22, the well-respected Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released a survey on how the public sees the media leaning in the current campaign. By a margin of 70% to 9%, voters said most journalists favor Obama over McCain.

The perception of media favoritism is stronger this year than ever before. At this stage in the 2004 campaign, just 50% of those surveyed said the media favored John Kerry, while 22% saw them leaning toward George W. Bush.

As bad as The New York Times has been before, it’s nothing compared to the way the paper has managed, manipulated and mangled coverage of the 2008 campaign.

[AIM Freeper]

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[Oldpuppymax]

And the Times junk bond status...is that due to the separation of news from editorial?

[Liz]

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