NYT’s Hulse Shows Sudden Respect for a Non-Politicized Supreme Court
July 6th, 2018 4:19 PM
Now that Donald Trump seems ready to name another conservative to the Supreme Court, to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Times suddenly realizes the Court is “polarized” and politicized, and pleads for a court free from ideology. This after years of pushing to discover abortion, gay rights, and universal health care in the “terse, old” document. Chief Washington correspondent Carl…
NYT’s Manjoo Plays Lefty Twitter Cop: Should Trump Tweets Be Censured?
July 5th, 2018 6:09 PM
New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo is eager to be the left-wing Internet politics czar. He urged cracking down on wrong-think on Twitter in November 2017, by “look[ing] to the community for determining the rights of people on the platform.” His latest social media policing comes in Thursday’s Business Day, where he spent 1,400 words trying to start an employee uprising at Twitter, and…
NY Times Frets Over Court Threat to Gays, 'Transgender Women of Color'
July 5th, 2018 2:31 PM
Reporters Liam Stack and Elizabeth Dias offered a Thursday New York Times story headlined “Why the Supreme Court Opening Could Affect Gay Marriage as Well as Abortion.” Besides taking sides on the issue of gay marriage, resumed the paper’s bad habit of superfluous ideological labeling, with ten “conservative” references in the 1,200-word report compared to a single “liberal” label, in the first…
NY Times: Pope’s ‘Respect’ for LGBT a Sign of Future ‘Acceptance’
Culture
July 5th, 2018 11:55 AM
On Thursday, The New York Times published an op-ed that asked whether the Catholic Church would ever be able to get its progressive act together and shift its stance towards the LGBT community.
NY Times Drools Over Possible Democrat Wins in 2018, Targets GOP Daily
July 4th, 2018 3:56 PM
n case you had any doubts, the New York Times really, really wants Democrats to take control of the House and Senate in November. On Wednesday, the paper’s target was Rep. Barbara Comstock of Virginia. Michael Tackett’s fair-enough story nevertheless put Comstock in the national spotlight as a vulnerable Republican. The online headline: “This Republican Always Shows Up. That May Not Be Enough…
NY Times Gives Reporter a ‘Fresh Start’ After ‘Unacceptable’ Romances
July 3rd, 2018 10:23 PM
After an extensive internal review, The New York Times announced on Tuesday that Ali Watkins would receive a “fresh start” and move from Washington, D.C., to “a new beat” in New York City even though the 26-year-old reporter had been romantically involved with at least two potential sources over a three-year period. Executive Editor Dean Baquet explained the decision by stating the Times “must be…
NYT Feverish Over Pre-School for Muslim Kids: ‘Give Us Your Children’
July 3rd, 2018 6:20 PM
Trouble in a European social paradise? A striking headline on the front page of Monday’s New York Times that made “mandatory” pre-school for immigrants in Copenhagen sound the same as child kidnapping: “For Help From Danish State, a Demand: Give Us Your Children.” The print-edition text box (note the word “values” in danger quotes) reads: “Immigrants Must Take New ‘Values’ Classes.”
NYT Hypocrisy: Chiding Fox News 'Coziness... Advocacy' for Trump
July 1st, 2018 2:05 PM
New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum thinks he’s found a case of media collusion in the “friendship” between President Trump and Fox News: “Fox and Trump: It’s a Friendship Without Equal.” But he conveniently skipped over the decades of “friendship” between the broadcast networks and CNN with Democratic presidents -- not to mention that the other TV news outlets provide a safe space for…
After Court Decisions, NYT Lead Questions 'Weaponized' Free Speech
July 1st, 2018 8:31 AM
A few Supreme Court cases just failed to go the left’s way, and now they are trashing the First Amendment they once revered in such morally preening fashion. New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak gave the reversal his seal of approval in a long lead story for Sunday’s front page: “How Free Speech Was Weaponized By Conservatives.” What began in a free-speech backlash by the paper…
Fake News Reuters: Editor Blamed Trump for Shooting
June 30th, 2018 4:00 PM
Sometimes - Okay, increasingly more and more times ad infinitum - the liberal media becomes an amazing caricature of its own left wing idiocy. Let’s start with that craziness that used to be known in journalism as The Facts. In this case the facts about the shooting this past week at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland.
Harvard University Accused of Discriminating Against Asians
Culture
June 29th, 2018 4:58 PM
Affirmative action, the fix-all-racism tool for the left, ironically has found itself caught up in a discrimination scandal.
NYT Spins for Rod Rosenstein Over Unfair 'Unsubstantiated' GOP Assault
June 29th, 2018 3:43 PM
How do you get a liberal paper to staunchly defend the Justice Department? Just put President Trump on the other side. New York Times reporter Nicholas Fandos was the latest media figure to stand up for deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein against Republican attacks in a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. Fandos’s piece took every Rosenstein rebuttal as some kind of clear refutation…
Former Top NY Times Editor: Newspaper Making 'Horrible Mistakes'
June 29th, 2018 6:27 AM
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson issued a "public spanking" of her own newspaper over its recent coverage -- or lack of coverage, starting with socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a House Democrat primary. She later complained the Times was "crucifying" a young female reporter who slept with sources to get stories.