Former NYT Editor Behind Cotton Op-Ed Brings Receipts in EPIC Tell-All

February 26th, 2024 5:31 PM

After nearly four years of relative silence, former New York Times op-ed editor Adam Rubenstein sounded off Monday morning in a lengthy essay at The Atlantic about the embarrassing, pathetic, and disturbing episode from June 2020 in which Rubenstein was pushed out over the paper's publication of Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) infamous op-ed calling for using the military to…

PBS Mounts 'Gratuitous' Defense of Biden From Hur's Hurtful Report

February 12th, 2024 9:26 PM

The latest edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic waited until the 20th minute of the 26-minute episode (after an admittedly busy news week) to address concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory, after the release of Robert Hur’s alarming special report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg said "obviously it's a legitimate…

NYT 'Heir Apparent' Bennet Blasts Rag's Lefty 'Culture of Intolerance'

December 19th, 2023 1:24 PM

If someone who was once considered “heir apparent to run the Times” declares that his former paper has become an intolerant “illiberal” hellhole, you should listen. The latter part of former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet’s 17,000-word autopsy of his former employer sharpened the focus on the suffocating liberalism of the media world in general and the Times --and…

Fired NYT Editor Nukes Paper's Path: ‘Liberal Bias to Illiberal Bias'

December 17th, 2023 4:04 PM

Media mavens may remember the blow the New York Times reputation took when James Bennet was forced out of his Editorial Page Editor slot at the paper. It came in June 2020, days after the paper ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas that called upon President Donald Trump to use troops to quell violence connected to Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of…

Fired New York Times Editor James Bennet: The Times 'Lost Its Way'

December 16th, 2023 4:00 PM

In the day, it was a news-grabbing story. NewsBusters’ own Curtis Houck headlined the story when it happened in 2020. 

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Real Time Pans Media's Anti-Red State, Pro-Palestinian Bubbles

December 16th, 2023 12:09 PM

Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The New York Times Has No Self-Awareness

October 7th, 2023 4:00 PM

Ya gotta love the sheer self-unawareness at The New York Times. In the wake of the GOP rebellion in the House that cost GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy his job, The Times headlined this:

WashPost's Wemple Atones for Not Condemning Cowardly, Woke NY Times

October 31st, 2022 2:49 PM

Erik Wemple, media critic at the Washington Post, issued a fascinating and revealing mea culpa on October 27, regarding the disgraceful firing in the summer of 2020 of former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet, after Bennet ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton that suggested sending in troops to quell the rioting stemming from Black Lives Matter…

NYT's Lefty Identity Crisis: Readers Expect ‘Mother Jones on Steroids'

October 20th, 2022 10:00 PM

Ben Smith, former media columnist for the New York Times, plunged himself into his old paper’s current identity crisis, both in the eyes of Wall Street and its readership.  Smith focused on the mortifying story of James Bennet, former editorial page editor and “onetime heir apparent to run the Times,” who riled up the paper’s internal left-wing mob and was summarily fired for the…

Gag: New NYT Editor Tapped, Poses in CREEPY Photo Spread for NY Mag

April 20th, 2022 8:46 AM

Joseph Kahn is the new executive editor of the New York Times, replacing current editor Dean Baquet, who is retiring. Kahn was the paper’s Beijing bureau chief in the 2000s. Coverage of Baquet’s tenure avoided the paper’s left-wing woke meltdowns of recent years and even suggested the paper was annoying liberals. By contrast, New York Magazine compared the paper's recent left…

‘The Gray Lady Winked’ Exposes NY Times Pro-Woke, Anti-Soldier Bias

March 18th, 2022 2:31 PM

The New York Times entered the 21st century carrying the same old bad habits, as Ashley Rindsberg documents in The Gray Lady Winked. In the first part of our review we summarized his findings on the paper’s shameful coverage of the rise of Nazism and Communism and its suppression of news of the ongoing Holocaust. In the second part: More hostility toward Jews,…

Politico Editor: Palin Trial Reveals NYT Publisher Is a Moral Coward

February 11th, 2022 10:16 AM

In the midst of all his fury hurled at Sarah Palin by Politico founding editor John F. Harris in his column on Monday, he made quite an interesting revelation. Namely that thanks to the discovery process made by Palin in her lawsuit against the New York Times, we now have documentation about the utter moral cowardice of the publisher of that periodical, A.G. Sulzberger.

NY Times Frets About Freedom of the Press as Palin's Libel Suit Looms

January 25th, 2022 5:46 PM

A June 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2011 attempted assassination of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead. Palin filed a defamation suit. The Times is worried that the press’s free ride in the judicial system may be ending, as demonstrated in Jeremy Peters’ “Sarah…

NYT Opinion Editor Hosts Limbaugh Forum, Slimes 'Trollish' Ben Shapiro

February 21st, 2021 3:02 PM

Sigh: The New York Times is cranking out still more vituperative reaction on the passing of conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh. A revealing email from opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury introducing a package of no less than four essays on the man. Kingsbury announced them with self-importance, and anti-Ben Shapiro insults, in an Opinion email, while saluting her left-wing Rush-…