How Far Left Are NYT Readers? Meet Paper's Biggest Fans on Facebook
June 12th, 2018 4:35 PM
New York Times reporter Jake Lucas performed public relations for the paper’s social media outreach, celebrating a recently established Times Facebook group in Tuesday’s edition. It has a modest membership and a poorly disguised left-wing tilt to its membership.
Trump Talks with North Korea? NY Times Now Reveals It's a Tyranny
June 12th, 2018 1:33 PM
“Atrocities Under Kim Jong-un: Indoctrination, Prison Gulags, Executions” is a solid, depressing rundown of the totalitarian state in Monday’s New York Times. The timing seems calculated to embarrass President Trump, in Singapore at a summit meeting with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Mere months ago the Times was celebrating Kim's sister on the front page: "Flashing a sphinx-like…
NYT's Convenient Deference to Pope to Push Left-Wing Climate Advocacy
June 11th, 2018 6:41 PM
More strange new respect for religion -- or at least religious figures who advocate left-wing issues – in Sunday’s New York Times. Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Rome on Pope Francis’s “climate change” crusade and his lecture of corporations in “Pope Urges Oil Executives to Act on Climate: ‘There Is No Time to Lose.’” (Christian conservative opponents of gay marriage and abortion still…
NYT Stealth Edits Article After Slamming Wealthy ‘Pigs’
June 11th, 2018 4:25 PM
Saturday, the New York Times published an article about the future of commercial space travel. Detailing the business plans and operations of Axiom Space, Featured Story Writer Sheila Marikar took the opportunity to toss in a couple of insults directed at the uber-wealthy.
Is He Nuts? Krugman Says Journalists Are Afraid to Call Trump ‘Crazy'
June 11th, 2018 7:45 AM
Sometimes you just have to wonder what planet Paul Krugman, the radical, left-wing columnist and economist for the New York Times, is living on. On Sunday morning, the journalist went on a tweet storm complaining that the media wasn’t presenting Trump accurately...because they were presenting him as sane.
NY Times, AP Focus on Backlash and Not Details of German Girl's Murder
June 10th, 2018 8:45 PM
Ali Bashar, a 20 year-old Iraqi who sought and was rejected for asylum in Germany, has been arrested after fleeing to Kurdistan, and has now reportedly admitted to raping and killing 14 year-old Susanna Feldman in Wiesbaden in May. A New York Times report posted before that reported admission, as well as Associated Press items appearing both before and after it, betray a clear reluctance to…
NYT's Davenport Makes Front Page: 'Science Is Unwelcome' Under Trump
June 10th, 2018 6:09 PM
On the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, environmental reporter Coral Davenport devoted over 2,000 words to the Trump administration's alleged "retreat from scince." The headline made the proposition clear: “In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice.” To Davenport, "science" includes support for the liberal climate change consensus, and the Iran deal.
Sean Hannity, Joy Reid, and the Liberal Media’s Free Press Phobia
June 9th, 2018 4:00 PM
Sean Hannity (full disclosure, I write columns at his website) was in the middle of his Thursday night live television show on Fox when there was, as they say, breaking news - from The New York Times. The news? The Times had just posted a story saying the Justice Department had seized the phone records of a New York Times reporter.
NYT Calls Trump ‘Black Sheep’ of G7 Family, ‘Poked' Allies in the Eye
June 8th, 2018 4:53 PM
In Friday’s lead New York Times story on the Group of 7 meeting of industrialized nations in Canada which opened today, reporter Michael Shear set the table with sour grapes for Trump and sympathy for Europe’s more conventionally liberal leadership: “Anger Flares Up As The Group of 7 Heads to Quebec": "Mr. Trump is the black sheep of this family, the estranged sibling who decided to pick fights…
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GMA Ignores Report of Senate Staffer Leaking Info to NYT Reporter
June 8th, 2018 1:02 PM
Friday morning, ABC News ignored a story that broke overnight that revealed how some reporters were using unethical means to obtain and leak information about the Trump Administration. The Justice Department announced late Thursday that the former head of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James Wolfe, was arrested and indicted for lying to the FBI about his leaking of information to…
Liberal Media Forced to Admit Economy ‘On a Roll,’ Jobs ‘Excellent'
Business
June 7th, 2018 12:24 PM
How well is the American economy doing these days? Well enough that even some liberal media which are usually Debbie Downers during Republican administrations have been singing its praises.
One New York Times writer “ran out of words” about the robust jobs numbers, another wrote about how the economy “roared” in May, while Yahoo said the economy was “on a roll.”
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Raves Over Bill Clinton’s Book: ‘Satisfying’
Culture
June 5th, 2018 2:49 PM
The former president who is finally facing backlash for his actions in the White House gets a thumbs up review from an MSNBC host. Nicolle Wallace published a surprisingly positive review of Bill Clinton’s book, The President is Missing, in the New York Times on June 5.
NYT Goes Down on the Farm to Fawn Over Montana Sen. Jon Tester
June 4th, 2018 9:29 PM
New York Times reporter Nicholas Fandos hiked out to Montana to talk to Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana for Monday’s edition. Tester, who may be tested in the fall as he’s up for re-election in a state Donald Trump carried by 20 points, was fawned over on his farm by Fandos, both in the main story, “Senate Democrat in Deep-Red Montana Isn’t Sweating Trump’s Threats,” and also an “Inside the…
NYT Women Debate Bee: 'Bully' or Calling Out 'Pink-Washing' Ivanka?
June 4th, 2018 11:47 AM
New York Times "gender editor" Jessica Bennett assembled a group of female Times writers to analyze Samantha Bee's feckless stunt against Ivanka Trump. Culture critic-at-large Amanda Hess suggested Bee was calling out Ivanka's "pink-washing" her father's aims with vague feminism. Opinion writer Bari Weiss replied Bee's C-word "really backfired," and she ended up "looking like a bully."
