Muslim Refugee Trouble in Sweden? Just Russian Disinfo, Says NYTimes

Clay Waters
August 11th, 2019 8:53 PM
Reporter Jo Becker got huge front-page play on the front of Sunday’s New York Times for the investigation, “How Nationalism Found a Home in Sweden -- A Global Machine Fuels the Far Right’s Rise.” But while battling two of the paper’s favorite villains, Russia and “Islamophobia,” along with the Swedish political party Sweden Democrats, Becker left out the context of quite a lot of recent Swedish…
 

Clinton Ally E-Mailed How to Get NY Times to Cover Her More Favorably

Randy Hall
October 26th, 2016 5:59 PM
A confidant of Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta explained in an e-mail how to get the New York Times to change how the daily newspaper covered the secretary of state, according to e-mails made public by WikiLeaks from the chairman's hacked Gmail account. Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden told Podesta how former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg met with Arthur…
 

NYT Faults Hillary for Libya 'Rush' to War -- A War It Pushed Hard For

Clay Waters
March 1st, 2016 10:01 AM

The failures of liberal internationalism meets the New York Times’ liberal hypocrisy on interventionism, in an enormous front-page Sunday story on Hillary Clinton’s decision to bomb Libya, and the catastrophic results:“The Libya Gamble,” by Jo Becker and Scott Shane. But left out of the thousands of words: How the New York Times itself aggressively pushed war in Libya hard on its news pages,…

 

With Critical Valerie Jarrett Profile, New York Times Still Covers Pre

Clay Waters
September 5th, 2012 9:57 AM
A Sunday front-page profile of Obama's top aide Valerie Jarrett by the New York Times's Jo Becker, "The Other Power in the West Wing," was not uniformly positive, but did provide useful cover for her boss by painting Jarrett as pushing the president toward "first principles," which just happen to include (left-wing) priorities like gay marriage and government-funded birth control. But don't…