Moon Over Chappaquiddick? How Press Let Landing Overshadow Kennedy
July 16th, 2019 7:20 PM
For Fast Company’s run-up to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, the magazine's Charles Fishman dove into the contemporaneous coverage from July 1969, focusing on how the print media reporting on “liberal lion” Sen. Ted Kennedy driving off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island that killed his passenger was overshadowed by the moon landing the next day.
NY Times' Dowd Chides AOC for ‘Outrageous’ Racism Against Pelosi
July 14th, 2019 7:38 PM
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press honeymoon over? No, but a few hints in the New York Times in the last week suggest the ardor has cooled. It's always fun to read New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd turn her acid pen to the left on occasion, and shake up her progressive readership. Dowd sounded positively Republican at times: "A.O.C. should consider the possibility that people who disagree…
NYT's New Liberal Heroine: Rep. Escobar, 'Voice of...Reason on Border'
July 13th, 2019 9:33 PM
The New York Times, pushing hard for migrants, is still slamming the now-rescinded family separation policy at the Southern border. Now it’s found a new liberal immigrant heroine: El Paso Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar. Reporter Emily Cochrane was all gushing in Friday’s edition: “‘People Listen to Her’: House’s Voice of Fervor, And Reason, on Border.” The next day, Cochrane covered the actual…
NY Times Mocks Trump Summit of 'Right-Wing Social Media Trolls'
July 13th, 2019 3:30 PM
The New York Times demonstrated its loathing for conservative social media activists, while skipping over some of its own inconvenient blind spots. The headline over reporter Kevin Roose's pre-meeting table-setter, “Trump Woos Social Media Influencers,” belied the story’s hostility, but the online headline accurately captured the tone: “Trump Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Right-Wing Social…
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Media Worry Faith in American Dream May Hurt 2020 Dems
July 12th, 2019 10:21 AM
On her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show on Thursday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle highlighted a recent New York Times article about a study finding that, despite facing economic challenges, southerners in the U.S. still believe strongly in the American dream of lifting oneself out of poverty without major government intervention. The article fretted that such attitudes “could complicate Democratic efforts…
NY Times Comic Critic Lectures Dave Chappelle for ‘Cruel’ Trans Jokes
July 11th, 2019 10:28 PM
Comedian Dave Chappelle is doing a limited run of stand-up shows on Broadway, and a review of his opening night performance made the front of the New York Times Arts section on Thursday. But critic Jason Zinoman wasn’t laughing: “The Joke Is Getting Old – An unswayed Dave Chappelle defends the wealthy and mocks the marginalized.” What did Chappelle do to merit the Times’ prominent censure? He…
NYT Bashes Boris, 'Virtually Cultlike Certitude' of Brexit Embrace
July 11th, 2019 2:20 PM
The New York Times does not like British Conservative politician Boris Johnson, and certainly not his Brexit cause, and makes little attempt to hide it, even in its news coverage (and forget about the opinion section). Reporter Stephen Castle’s coverage of the debate between conservatives Johnson and Jeremy Hunt over who would become the Conservative Party’s new leader (and in effect the next…
NY Times Skips Terror Against Israel, Endorses 'Occupation' Propaganda
July 10th, 2019 11:40 PM
New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief David Halbfinger again provided a solely Palestinian view of the conflict in Israel, writing through the eyes of left-wing U.S. Jewish group J Street for Wednesday’s edition: “Absorbing a Different Slice of a Jewish Birthright – An Unflinching View Of Israeli Occupation.” Halbfinger followed a group of American college students on an “alternative” left-wing…
NY Times Warns Pompeo's Human Rights Panel Sabotaged by His Faith
July 10th, 2019 11:40 AM
The New York Times wrung its hands over Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s review of the U.S. government’s international human rights policy, using his Christian faith against him while using the most liberal definition of human rights to try and paint the Trump administration as reactionary and anti-gay: “New Human Rights Panel Spurs Misgivings.” Tuesday’s report by Edward Wong and Eileen Sullivan…
NYTimes Cheers on Biz Boycott of Border Enforcement, Linked to Nazism
July 8th, 2019 7:00 PM
Reporter Amanda Taub’s piece in Monday’s New York Times, “The Power of a Unified ‘No!’: U.S. Asylum Restrictions Hit a Bump,” offered more of the same un-distilled migrant advocacy as last month’s awful Times op-ed, which called for “doxxing” the employees of migrant detention centers. This time the attempt to cripple immigration enforcement appeared in the print news section, with a story…
NY Times Downplays June Jobs Report, Complains Market Is ‘Solid’
Business
July 8th, 2019 3:21 PM
The liberal media don’t want to give President Donald Trump positive coverage on anything, including the economy. The New York Times’ reluctance was obvious as it downplayed the June jobs report which smashed expectations with 224,000 jobs. The Times quickly tamped down any economic enthusiasm.
First World Feminists: Air-Conditioning Is ‘Sexist’
Culture
July 8th, 2019 2:34 PM
In an Afghan village, terrorists throw acid on little girls’ faces, poison their water, and hurl grenades into their classrooms to stop them from going to school. In an American office, some women are a little chilly. For first world radical feminists, the latter issue takes precedence, especially in the scorching summer heat.
Bozell & Graham Column: Trolling the Fourth of July
July 4th, 2019 4:34 PM
Liberals are loudly denouncing President Trump for his plans to insert himself into Fourth of July festivities in the nation’s capital, He’s announced he’ll deliver a speech, as if that is unique, and provide tanks for the parade, as if that’s controversial. And so they compare Trump to Kim Jong Un. But then there are others who are using this anniversary to take it in the opposite direction.…
NY Times Warns 'Climate Denialists' Are On The Loose in Washington
July 4th, 2019 9:39 AM
The New York Times aggressively labeled "deniers" of drastic climate change in a story at the top of its National section on Wednesday. The paper's headline was "As Carmakers Balk, Warming Deniers Seek to Gut Emissions Rules." Online, the headline was "Climate Change Denialists Dubbed Auto Makers the ‘Opposition’ in Fight Over Trump’s Emissions Rollback."
