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Joe Kahn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime Beijing bureau chief who was promoted to managing editor of the paper in 2016, will succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor. Full story here… https://www.barrons.com/news/new-york-times-names-next-editor-to-lead-us-paper-01650380711

A couple of undercover videos released by Project Veritas featuring New York Times national security correspondent Matthew Rosenberg has caused quite a stir at that newspaper because Rosenberg had some very critical things to say about his colleagues, specifically what he considers to be their silly drama queen overreactions to the January 6 events at Capitol Hill.The conundrum of the Times is that even though Rosenberg's criticisms caused a lot of outrage among much of their staff, executive editor Dean Baquet urged the staff at a meeting of their Washington D.C. bureau on Thursday to keep calm and not allow...

VIDEONew York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet desperately tried to brush off the Project Veritas lawsuit against his newspaper a couple of months ago with very unconvincing maniacal laughter that came off as totally fake and forced. The clip of his fake maniacal laughter might be destined to become a viral meme. What makes the laughter really funny is when you match it up against the subsequent decision by a New York State Supreme Court judge to DENY the Times' motion to dismiss the lawsuit. And now the Times is subject to discovery which will prove they published a FAKE...

We reported last month that veteran New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. “resigned” over resurfaced allegations he used racially offensive and sexist language during a 2019 NYT-sponsored student trip to Peru.At issue were complaints from students who “specifically alleged that the science reporter used the ‘n-word’ and suggested he did not believe in the concept of white privilege” during the trip, according to a January story from the Daily Beast. “Three other participants alleged that McNeil made racist comments and used stereotypes about Black teenagers,” they also reported.The Times higher-ups became aware of the claims and...

The New York Times has promised to give staffers “results” after many signed a letter expressing anger over the decision not to fire science and health reporter Donald McNeil, The Washington Post reported. McNeil, the Times’s top COVID-19 reporter, came under scrutiny after allegations that he “repeatedly made racist and sexist remarks throughout” a school trip that he was chosen to guide, according to a past report from the Daily Beast. NYT’s executive editor Dean Baquet later explained that he was first “outraged and expected to fire” McNeil, but changed his mind after an investigation. “I authorized an investigation and...

It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others...

Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar -- self-styled feminists who bought every flimsy claim made against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- have chosen to stand by Joe Biden in the face of a sexual assault allegation made against him by a former staffer. The MeToo movement, which followed a New York Times' expose on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's abuse and degradation of women in the entertainment industry, was supposed to prove that the feminist movement was a moral entity committed to fair treatment of women, even when big Democratic figures...

Dean Baquet is not a very bright guy. The New York Times isn't there for any obvious reason except his willingness to be both a token, and, unlike his predecessor, submissive to the Sulzberg clan, while pushing assorted identity politics agendas. It takes a very 'not bright guy' to make the admission that Baquet did about the Times' hit piece on Tara Reade, the former Biden Senate staffer who had accused him of sexual assault. The New York Times whitewashing piece had initially included and then deleted a paragraph that attracted a lot of attention. ***"The Times found no pattern...

There are similarities in the sexual assault allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and Tara Reade. Ford accuses Justice Brett Kavanaugh of pinning her to a bed, groping her over her clothes, and covering her mouth at a high school party in the early 1980s. Reade accuses Biden of forcibly penetrating her with his fingers when she worked for his Senate office in 1993.The allegations are both decades old. Both are denied by the accused men. That does not render them false. It does, however, offer an instructive case study in media bias.Reade’s allegation is against a Democrat, Ford’s...

There have been a lot more empty seats at President Donald Trump's daily news briefings - but no, news organizations aren't boycotting the events in protest or attempting to silence him, despite what he suggested at a briefing this week. Instead, something else is afoot: Reporters are keeping their distance because they are concerned about the health risks at a time when many consider the president's evening news conferences to have become increasingly less newsworthy. More at link The decision by such outlets as The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNBC to stay away may be fundamentally changing...

The New York Times' Executive Editor Dean Baquet released a statement voicing his support for Bloomberg News after President Trump's campaign announced on Monday the media outlet's reporters are now banned from events.  The ban was in response to Bloomberg News' leadership extending their policy of not investigating owner and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to his now-other Democratic presidential candidates. Bloomberg News will continue to investigate Trump and his businesses. "Bloomberg News is one of the largest and most influential news organizations in the world. We condemn any action that keeps quality news media from reporting fairly and accurately...

New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet alleged in a new interview that President Trump is putting reporters "lives at risk" by calling them names and personally attacking them. “I think his personal attacks on reporters, including Maggie [Haberman], are pretty awful and pretty unpresidential,” Baquet told The Guardian. “I think personal attacks on journalists, when he calls them names, I think he puts their lives at risk." “I think that when he actually calls reporters names, says they’re un-American, says they’re enemies of the people ... that phrase has a deep history," he added. "I think when he says...

One of the great debates of the 2020 campaign will be whether the key date in defining America is 1619 or 1776. The left will assert that America is a terrible country and that its defining moment was the introduction of slavery. Most Americans will see that as a racist definition of history in its own right and will continue to believe in the exceptionalism created in 1776 by the Declaration of Independence and implemented in 1787 by the Constitution. This debate is being created by The New York Times’ determination to replace its failed crusade about President Trump and...

The shocking revelation in the September 21 New York Times that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump as well as invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office is stunning. It is also disturbing because this just feeds into Trump's "narrative" about the "Deep State" working to undermine him. The latter is a seems to be of great concern to CNN's historian commentator Douglas Brinkley as well as others in the liberal mainstream media. 

With talk of "opening up" libel laws on the free press, extensive executive order signing and a willingness to use alternative facts, one historian says President Donald Trump's power grabs point to a much more serious issue -- an overthrow of democracy. In a new book, Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University offers a bleak view in the era of Trump. During an interview with Salon, Snyder said Trump's flippancy for facts and his continued rallies where he uses nicknames for his enemies are fascistic whether he realizes it or not.....

RUSH: All right. Just right here is why I am necessary. This is why I’m needed. I mean, I’ve talked to everybody. “Slow news weekend, Rush, nothing happening out there. The biggest news I found was Jeffrey Epstein was delivered a couple of women’s panties, size 5.” You didn’t hear that? When he was in the Palm Beach County jail he requested some women’s size 5 panties and they delivered ‘em to him. You didn’t hear about that? Some people think that’s the biggest news of the weekend. Or maybe Trump wanting to buy Greenland. Those may be funny stories....

Perhaps when you think of the founding of the United States, you think of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers. Now, the New York Times wants to "reframe" your understanding of the nation's founding. In the Times' view (which it hopes to make the view of millions of Americans), the country was actually founded in 1619, when the first Africans were brought to North America, to Virginia, to be sold as slaves. This year marks the 400th anniversary of that event, and the Times has created something called the 1619 Project. This is...

VIDEO New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet was secretly recorded admitting that their highly promoted 1619 Project is really about hyping the notion that President Trump was brought into office due to the forces of racism. He also admitted that since their Plan A of removing Trump from office, alleging Trump-Russia collusion, fizzled out so that now it is on to Plan B, sliming Trump and his supporters as racist, of which the 1619 Project is a big part of this effort.

Listen up, Trumpophobes. It’s not so hard to understand the president’s appeal. Try going to one of his rallies and, instead of turning up your nose at the Walmart people, listen and learn. The abuse of President Trump and his supporters that passes for analysis from his opponents is a strategic error. The more abuse, the more Trump’s base is energized to turn out on Election Day. At his Thursday-night rally to launch his 2020 New Hampshire campaign, he broke Elton John’s all-time attendance record with a crowd of 11,500 inside the Southern New Hampshire University Arena. It wasn’t just...

Because the race-baiting sycophants in the Left-wing “mainstream” media don’t believe they have divided America enough, the ‘woke’ editorial staff at The New York Times is embarking on a project to push our country closer to the abyss. Under the auspices of something called “The 1619 Project,” the Times seeks to rebrand history and make the issue of slavery central to America’s founding. The title of the initiative makes reference to the 400th anniversary of the arrival of black slaves to lands later to be collectively known as the United States. And the Times is clear about its objective: “It...