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If you look up the biography of Columnist William Pfaff it says: William Pfaff (born in 1928) is an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and is of German, English, and Irish origin. He currently resides in Paris. What is probably missing from the biography was that his favorite books are probably the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf. In an Op-ed published in the International Herald Tribune this past Wednesday, Herr Pfaff decided that the reason...

MSM DoesnÂ’t Care About GoogleÂ’s Pro-Jihadi Censorship By Matthew Vadum | November 6, 2007 - 16:41 ET As Islamic scholar Robert Spencer can tell you, the mainstream media has barely noticed that Google, the Internet search engine giant, is now deciding for its users which ideas are acceptable and which are not. ItÂ’s never been a secret that Google leans left and wonÂ’t tolerate ideas it doesnÂ’t agree with. The company hired global warming profiteer Al Gore as senior advisor and has a history of purging content based on ideology. More evidence of the companyÂ’s thinly-veiled, warm and fuzzy politically...

The survey, conducted Dec. 2-6, showed Bush's approval rating at 40 percent, up from 35 percent a month ago, which was the low point of his presidency. His gains primarily came among men, independents, moderates and conservatives. He remains a fiercely polarizing figure, with an approval rating of 79 percent among Republicans, 12 percent among Democrats and 34 percent among Independents.

IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman Sachs, adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."

Japan's Takenaka Mulls Official Protest Of NY Times-KyodoDOW JONES NEWSWIRESNEW YORK -- Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka said Thursday he is considering lodging an official protest against the New York Times Co. (NYT) over a report that he plans to leave government service as early as September to return to the world of academia, the Kyodo news agency reported.The report is "totally nonsense," Takenaka told the House of Councillors' Financial Affairs Committee. "I'm considering lodging an official protest (with the paper) through a lawyer," Kyodo reported.He said the report could undermine confidence in a key government policy that is enabling...

The outgoing head of the leading newspaper for Americans abroad, the International Herald Tribune, yesterday accused the number one US domestic daily, the New York Times, of undermining the country's standing around the world. Peter Goldmark, chairman of the Paris-based newspaper, fired his parting shot at the Times in a defiant statement to staff explaining his decision to step down. The Times is now the Tribune's sole owner after years of joint ownership with the Washington Post ended late last year. His criticism was all the more wounding as the Times prides itself on its foreign coverage and cosmopolitan views....

PARIS (AP) -- Hoping to extend its voice abroad, The New York Times is buying out The Washington Post's stake in the International Herald Tribune to take sole control of the Paris-based newspaper. The Post told its reporters Tuesday that it agreed to the sale only after the Times threatened to drive the Herald Tribune into ruin. The Times said the sale was by mutual agreement but had no response to the Post's charges, which represented a rare airing of dirty laundry between two newspaper titans. The Times and the Post have equally shared ownership of the Herald Tribune...

The Lebanese distributor of the International Herald Tribune (IHT) decided not to sell Thursday's edition of the Paris-based daily because of what it termed was a pro-Israeli advertisement in the newspaper. A front-page note in the Daily Star, Lebanon's only English-language daily distributing the IHT since last July, said the decision was "due to possible legal action by the Lebanese government because of advertising content in the IHT." The full-page advertisement titled "Short Memory" and placed by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) listed around 200 recent instances of anti-Semitism throughout the world, editor Hanna Anbar told The Associated Press. The...

BEIRUT -- A Beirut newspaper failed Tuesday to print and distribute across Arab cities the International Herald Tribune to avoid "possible legal action" by the Lebanese government due to a pro-Israeli ad carried by the U.S. daily. "The *** Daily Star*** has decided that due to possible legal action by the Lebanese government, it will not distribute the International Herald Tribune on Tuesday because of advertising content in the IHT, as published around the world," it said in a front-page announcement. A source at the ***Daily Star***r told AFP that Tuesday's issue of the ***Tribune*** contained the same pro-Israeli advertisement...