Paul Krugman: Can’t Discount ‘Possibility’ Trump Admin Got to BLS
President Donald Trump’s economy proved it’s not going down without a fight. An excellent new jobs report has Keynesian New York Times economist Paul Krugman babbling about a Trump conspiracy on Twitter to make sense of it.
The Controlled Burn Rages Out of Control
In the wake of riots that have spread across America, leaving shattered businesses and wounded communities in their wake, it feels as though our nation is collapsing around us. That's bizarre, considering that virtually all Americans agree with the following two propositions: first, that it is evil for a police officer to place his knee on the neck of a prone suspect struggling to breathe for…
New York Times Stands Up for Violent Antifa Rioters
The New York Times’ coverage of the rioting after the killing of George Floyd has been an exercise in running interference for the violent left-wing anarchists of Antifa. Reporter Davey Alba focused on three alleged bits of misinformation being passed around the web about the rioting taking place in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in police custody. But one bit that wasn’t “…
UPDATE: NYT Decides It Hates Free Speech, Apologizes for Cotton Op-Ed
By now, the liberal media and allies in elected office and academia have made clear as day that they don’t actually believe in the First Amendment or a free press. The latest proof? The New York Times opinion section daring to publish a column…
New York Times Again Lets Leftist Twitter Edit Its Front Page
The New York Times appears to have once again caved to the radical left on Twitter and changed a perfectly accurate headline deemed sufficiently anti-Trump. This was the original banner headline on the front page of Tuesday’s first edition: “As Chaos Spreads, Trump Vows To ‘End It Now.’” After left-wing outcry, including from former Obama staffers and media favorites Jon Lovett (“Just…
NYT '1619' Journalist: Immoral to Call Destroying Property 'Violence'
The New York Times Magazine’s ahistorical “1619 Project” author has been all over media outlets this week commenting on the riots and protests over the death of George Floyd. On Tuesday, she made some disturbing arguments justifying violence, to PBS’s Christiane Amanpour and on CBS News Live. Amanpour actually responded as if she agreed with the NYT journalist condoning…
Lara Logan Blasts NYT's ‘Blatant Propaganda’ Defending Antifa
The media has not only been downplaying and ignoring the violence caused by Antifa for years, they’ve also been increasingly defending them from scrutiny. On Fox and Friends this morning, journalist Lara Logan went after The New York Times for doing exactly that, after President Trump announced he would designate the violent left-wing anarchist group as a terrorist…
Off-White CEO Abloh Draws NY Times Ire: A Symbol of ‘Disappointment’
Apparently, if you’re an icon of the African-American community who doesn’t stand in solidarity with the rioters, you risk being #canceled. The New York Times published a scathing story against Louis Vuitton designer Virgil Abloh headlined “The Virgil Abloh Backlash.” Authors Vanessa Friedman and Elizabeth Paton wrote: “Mr. Abloh was initially cheered as a pioneer and a symbol of…
NYTimes Panics: ‘Menace’ Over Trump Tackling Twitter’s Censorship
The brief arrest of a CNN news crew covering the mayhem in Minneapolis prompted New York Times media reporter James Poniewozik to melodramatically take on President Trump for his action against Twitter, in “A Live Look At Censorship, No Tweets Involved” in Saturday’s New York Times. The paper also reacted with alarm Thursday when conservatives criticized Twitter for its…
Journalists Forget Their Own Predictions: Millions of Americans to Die
The liberal media certainly has a convenient memory.Recently, as noted here by NewsBusters own Tim Graham, much was being made that 100,000 Americans had died of the virus. The New York Times devoted its entire front page to listing the dead. Let’s be plain: 100,000 dead Americans from the virus is horrific. Every human life is important.
NY Times Says Pandemic Should Stop 'Me First' Conservatism
The New York Times lead National “news” story on Friday was a full-page opinionated attack on conservatives by NewsBusters regular Jeremy Peters, who once again used the coronavirus pandemic as a cudgel: “‘The Crisis of 2020,’ Predicted in 1991: What’s Next?” Peters first marveled at how the 1991 book “Generations” by William Strauss and Neil Howe, “which introduced a provocative theory that…
Column: Showboating with 100,000 Dead
#WACKY: NYT Op-Ed Rambles ‘The End of Meat Is Here’