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  • Author James Patterson rips New York Times over its ‘bonkers’ Best Sellers list

    04/02/2023 10:19:53 PM PDT · by DeathBeforeDishonor1 · 30 replies
    NY POST ^ | 4/3/23 | David Propper
    Renowned author James Patterson has ripped the New York Times in a fiery open letter over its “lack of journalistic rigor” regarding its Best Sellers list — after the closely-watched list snubbed his highly-reviewed novel about law enforcement in America. Patterson, 76, said his new book “Walk the Blue Line: No Right, No Left – Just cops telling their true stories to James Patterson” initially failed to make the list even though he said it outsold all but three of the books on the list of 15, according to BookScan, which compiles book sales data. He accused the Times of...
  • Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies

    09/01/2005 9:23:19 PM PDT · by Congressman Billybob · 60 replies · 6,092+ views
    Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 1 September 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)
    No, this isn’t about Maureen Dowd or Paul Krugman. That’s too easy. It’s about a story on flooding in New Orleans today (1 September). Here’s the lead: “The 17th Street levee that gave way and led to the flooding of New Orleans was part of an intricate, aging system of barriers and pumps that was so chronically underfinanced that senior regional officials of the Army Corps of Engineers complained about it publicly for years.” The second and third paragraphs say: “Often leading the chorus was Alfred C. Naomi, a senior project manager for the corps... [who] grew particularly frustrated this...