NYT Editorial Compares Transgender Restroom Access Worries to Jim Crow

July 27th, 2015 12:20 PM
A Monday New York Times editorial compared transgender access to restrooms to the civil rights-era struggles against Jim Crow laws as well as women’s rights and Americans with disabilities. The Times argued that banning transgender students from bathrooms that do not align with their sex at birth “reinforce[s] cruel policies that deny dignity to some of the most vulnerable students and subject…

Ted Cruz on 'Star Trek': Kirk's a Republican, Picard's a Democrat

July 26th, 2015 2:53 PM
Back in 2009, reporters on NBC News and at Newsweek magazine compared Star Trek fan Barack Obama to a character in the popular phenomenon -- the half-human, half-Vulcan Mister Spock -- as “a person who has dealt with some of the same prejudices and problems that our new president does.” On Thursday, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz made another Star Trek comparison during a New York Times…

NYT's Egan Sees Trump Inevitable 'Monster' of Racist, Vet-Smearing GOP

July 26th, 2015 1:43 PM
Timothy Egan, who wrote liberal screeds for the New York Times as a reporter before finding a more fitting habitat as one of the paper's stable of left-wing anti-Republican columnists, piled on the GOP's current presidential front-runner in "Trump Is the Poison His Party Concocted," in the paper's Sunday Review. Egan suggested Trump is only the inevitable end result of toxic GOP racism and…

Reporter: Prove Hillary's Classified Emails Caused 'Security Harm'

July 26th, 2015 10:00 AM
Veteran journalist John Harwood, according to his Twitter home page, covers "Washington and national politics for CNBC and the New York Times." Saturday morning, despite all of his experience, Harwood tweeted a question (HT Twitchy) so naive that a freshman journalism student would have been embarrassed to ask it:

NYT Provides Rare Look Inside Christian Communities Decimated by ISIS

July 25th, 2015 10:31 PM
A 7,000-word New York Times Magazine cover story by Eliza Griswold, "The Shadow of Death," is an all-too-rare look from a major media outlet at the decimation of Christianity in the place of its birth, the Middle East, at the hands of radical Islamist groups like ISIS. From the cover text: "Christians in the Middle East are being forced out of their homes, enslaved and killed. Why is no one…

Jimmy Carter: ‘Fortunately There Was No Fox News When I Was President'

July 24th, 2015 2:04 PM
It’s old news that Jimmy Carter believes Jesus would support gay marriage and some abortion. But Fox News? Well, Carter doesn’t like that.   Earlier this week, NY Times reporter Philip Galanes sat down for lunch with the former president and black author Jacqueline Woodson to discuss issues of race and religion, including the confederate flag, black-white relations and same-sex marriage. 
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NBC’s Lauer to Kerry on Clinton E-Mails: ‘Is This Politics?'

July 24th, 2015 11:33 AM
In a live interview with Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer lobbed a softball about the news that the Justice Department was considering launching a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal: “As you’ve heard, two inspectors general have called for a criminal investigation into her use of that private e-mail server for sensitive information…

NY Times Does HRC's Bidding In Story On Criminal Inquiry Into Email

July 24th, 2015 11:24 AM
News broke on Hillary Clinton's email controversy Thursday night, and Michael Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo led with this sentence in their initial report on nytimes.com: "Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state,…

NY Times Gives Massive Anti-Iran Protest In Times Square One Paragraph

July 24th, 2015 10:22 AM
The New York Times has repeatedly demonstrated that protesters they like are far more newsworthy than protesters they don’t like. The number of protesters doesn’t really matter at all. Five years ago, they reported a whole story on four (count them on one hand) illegal-alien protesters for amnesty. A few months later, they repeated it with a whole story on five protesters.  But on Wednesday,…

NYT Celebrates $15 Minimum Wage After Cheerleading It Into NYC Law

July 23rd, 2015 11:08 PM
Thursday's lead New York Times story on New York State raising the minimum wage for fast-food workers to a whopping $15 an hour was dominated almost completely by cheerleading for the wage. That's despite the fact that even liberal economists are queasy about such a drastic hike in the minimum wage, and that the hike risks hurting the very low-income workers it supposedly helps, by raising the…

NYT's Calmes Tries to Change Subject From Planned Parenthood Sting

July 22nd, 2015 10:10 PM
New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes managed to write a 1,500-word story on David Daleiden, who runs the pro-life group that conducted damning undercover interviews with Planned Parenthood executives about harvesting baby organs, without once mentioning the actual contents of the vide.Calmes warned: "Democrats said they were counting on Republicans to overreach with their attacks -- inciting a…

NYTimes Goes To Bat For PP, Defends Harvesting Body Parts

July 22nd, 2015 8:27 PM
The New York Times editorial board has been called in to conduct damage control after the newest development in Planned Parenthood’s scandal concerning the haggling over and selling of organs from aborted babies. Over the past week, the Center for Medical Progress has released two videos from undercover investigations they’ve conducted with top personnel within the nation’s leading abortion…

Law Prof On Polygamy: ‘Is There Any Magic Power in the Number Two'?

July 21st, 2015 11:25 AM
William Baude, an assistant law professor at the University of Chicago, has a rare quality these days. He’s logical.  In an opinion piece written for the New York Times, Baude suggested that, following the Obergefell ruling discovering a right to gay ‘marriage,’ “there is a very good argument” that “polyamorous relationships should be next.”

NYT Public Editor Admits Paper 'Has Moved Away' From 'Just the Facts'

July 19th, 2015 4:39 PM
Writing about her paper's biased, social-activist coverage of the firing of Reddit chief executive Ellen Pao, New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan let slip an unannounced editorial change by the Times, opening the floodgates even wider for reporters to inject liberal impulses into their news stories: "They want to provide 'value-added' coverage," not the "just the facts" reporting "that…