NY Times Looks to End Capitalism: 'What Can Replace Free Markets?'

Clay Waters
February 21st, 2022 6:01 AM

Two anti-capitalist diatribes in the guise of news articles made the same edition of the New York Times. Steve Lohr, who covers business and economics, praised a new left-wing consortium of foundations and academics out to replace the free-market system that has brought so much prosperity to so many in America: “Wary of Economic Neoliberalism, Groups Fund Research on Alternatives.”…

 

Incessant: WaPo Promoting Yet Another Protest of Ants-on-Christ Video

Tim Graham
December 17th, 2010 8:32 AM
The Washington Post simply cannot stop putting protesters of the removal of an ants-on-Jesus video on the front page of the Style section. Once again in Friday's paper, art critic Blake Gopnik is publicizing gay artist A.A. Bronson's request that his huge color photo of his skeletal lover Felix Partz in his bed hours after he died in 1994 be removed from the exhibit:  "I had resisted taking…
 

Art Rant: The Washington Post Rails Against 'Small-Minded Intolerance

Tim Graham
December 6th, 2010 12:09 PM
Liberal newspapers may claim that taxpayer-funded art galleries should take “public sensitivities” into account, but in reality, they don’t want members of Congress actually representing the insulted public by speaking out against anti-Christian exhibits. Friday’s Washington Post led their editorial page with the headline “The censors arrive: Do Republicans really want to ride into power with…
 

MRC's Bozell Debates Offensive Smithsonian Art Exhibit on CNN's 'John

NB Staff
December 2nd, 2010 10:37 AM
"Look, if you like depictions of sadomasochism... if you like homoerotic art.... if you're into religious bigotry... if you like that, fine," but don't expect taxpayers to subsidize such an exhibit at a Smithsonian museum, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell argued in a debate segment on last night's edition of "John King USA" on CNN. The Media Research Center (MRC) founder and president…
 

WaPo Art Critic Rants at Removal of Ant-Covered Jesus; He'd Ban Norman

Tim Graham
December 1st, 2010 11:35 AM
Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik is hopping mad that the National Portrait Gallery pulled a video from its "Hide/Seek" exhibit on homosexual imagery, insisting: "Now the NPG, and the Smithsonian Institution it is part of, look set to come off as cowards." Gopnik insisted the ant-covered Jesus in the video was inconsequential, and that if he played censor, he'd keep the insect-covered…
 

WaPo Art Critic Slams Norman Rockwell as Lacking 'Courage

P.J. Gladnick
July 5th, 2010 8:52 PM
Artist Norman Rockwell's thought crime seems to be that he wasn't a kneejerk liberal. And for that, he has earned an angry leftwing rant from Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik who claimed that Rockwell lacked "courage" for not glorifying leftwing causes. Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" series? It disgusts Gopnik because it "doesn't invoke a communist printing his pamphlets or an atheist on a…
 

Obamas' Edgy Taste in Art: Still Not Politically Correct Enough

Tim Graham
October 7th, 2009 12:10 PM
Adding to Brent Baker’s piece on how AP gushed over the Obamas’ taste in picking art for the White House, Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik also tried to praise the "discerning eye" of the Obamas in Wednesday’s Style section, but Gopnik’s taste for artistic "affirmative action" came through very clearly: They seem to redress past imbalances in the nation's sense of its own art....But there…