NYTimes: Anti-Capitalism Protests a 'Populist Campaign...Clearly Tappe

October 4th, 2011 2:41 PM
In Tuesday’s “Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small,” New York Times reporters Erik Eckholm and Timothy Williams bolster the “populist” left-wing activists protesting against greedy bankers (among other items of the standard left-wing wish list) in Lower Manhattan. While the Times’s coverage of conservative Tea Party rallies pointed out the most extreme and “fringe”…

NY Times Already Predicting Racist Camp Name Will Hurt Rick Perry

October 4th, 2011 11:46 AM
Richard Oppel Jr.’s front-page New York Times story on Monday, “Snag for Perry: Offensive Name At Texas Camp,” catches up with a long, thinly sourced Washington Post article on a hunting camp in Texas, leased by Perry’s family, whose name included a racial epithet written on a rock by a camp entrance. Although the Perry connection is extremely tenuous (the camp’s name predated the Perry…

After Arrests, NY Times Takes Seriously 'Occupy Wall Street' Claims of

October 4th, 2011 7:53 AM
Occupy Wall Street, the floating leftist protest in Manhattan that’s camped out in downtown Manhattan in an endless protest against...something, attempted to migrate to Brooklyn this weekend, blocking vehicle traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and resulting in mass arrests. The New York Times, whose attitude toward Tea Party rallies was invariably hostile, blasted support throughout the weekend…

New York Times Freelancer Arrested In Occupy Wall Street Protest

October 2nd, 2011 12:41 AM
The folks at the New York Times aren't happy with just reporting the news. They want to be a part of it. Such is quite apparent given the arrest of Times freelancer Natasha Lennard during an Occupy Wall Street protest Saturday:

No Credit to Perry for Texas Economy, But Lots of Blame for Texas Heal

October 1st, 2011 3:03 PM
The New York Times may not give Texas Gov. Rick Perry credit for his state’s booming economy, but it will certainly attack him for his state’s supposedly awful record on providing health care. Emily Ramshaw reported “Few Bright Spots in Perry’s Health Care Record” for Friday’s edition. Ramshaw, a reporter for the Texas Tribune, a left-leaning nonprofit news organization based in Austin that…

NYT's Front-Page Sniff: 'Educated' High-Income Voters Alienated by Tea

September 30th, 2011 2:26 PM
Stupid white men for the G.O.P.? New York Times White House reporters Jackie Calmes and Mark Landler teamed up for Friday’s front-page campaign preview, “Obama Charts A New Route to Re-election.” In a change from the paper’s standard politically correct approach to race and class, the reporters crudely emphasized that “less-educated, low-income whites” tend to support Republicans. (What…

NYT's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Really Reaches to Bolster Obama's Pro-Isr

September 30th, 2011 12:37 PM
President Obama no longer has an Israel problem, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner reported on Thursday, bolstering Obama’s pro-Israel credentials by assuring Times readers that the president’s recent speech at the United Nations on Israel was pro-Israel. Bronner also broadcasted pro-Obama results from an online poll conducted by the Jerusalem Post – although online polls are an unreliable…

Will Media Remember Praising Al Awlaki the ‘Moderate

September 30th, 2011 9:24 AM
With the news that an American air strike has killed the U.S.-born head of Al Quaeda in Yemen, Anwar Al Awlaki, the media will explain his significance in the terrorist organization, and his role in inspiring the Ft. Hood shooter and the “underwear bomber.” What they probably won’t tell you is that they once celebrated Al Awlaki as a “moderate” and a bridge-builder “between Islam and the West…

NYT Puzzler: Gov. Christie Not Really Bipartisan Because...A Dem Calle

September 29th, 2011 1:34 PM
Does the New York Times fear a Chris Christie presidential run? On Thursday reporters Michael Shear (pictured above) and Richard Perez-Pena issued the New Jersey governor a pre-emptive reality check in response to his speech at the Reagan Presidential Library: “Not All Buy Christie’s Assertions of Bipartisanship – New Jersey Governor’s Critics Say Acrimonious Dealings Accompany…

Aww: London Rioters, Hurt By Cuts in Social Spending, 'Lacked Hope," S

September 29th, 2011 8:27 AM
European-based New York Times reporter Nicholas Kulish filed a big-think off-lead Wednesday from Madrid, “As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe,” and became the latest Times reporter to suggest that the rioters who burned and looted shops in London for shoes and smart phones were actually impoverished outcasts engaged in political protest. Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned…

NYT's Landler Portrays Obama's Aggressive, Big-Spending Partisanship A

September 28th, 2011 4:29 PM
New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler followed President Obama out West on what certainly felt like a partisan campaign tour. Landler acknowledged Obama’s partisanship and “acidic words” for the G.O.P., but also protected the president’s right flank by characterizing his appeals for higher taxes and his class rhetoric as “populist,” not liberal, and by failing to correct the…

More Class From NYT's Krugman: Rep. Ryan's Medicare Plan 'Would Kill P

September 28th, 2011 9:54 AM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman showed his usual class when discussing Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, whose comprehensive budget plan calls for transforming Medicare into a voucher system in order to preserve the financially imperiled program and to trim the deficit. For his efforts, Krugman claimed that Ryan’s “voucher would kill people, no question.” Krugman featured as a talking head in…

NYT Blames Conservative Victims for 'Diversity Bake Sale' Backlash, Th

September 27th, 2011 3:34 PM
Political dissent on campus – acceptable when it involves left-wing protesters shouting down conservative speakers, but hurtful and possibly dangerous when performed in a peaceful, parodic nature by conservatives. That’s the impression left by the New York Times. Malia Wollan visited the campus of the University of California at Berkeley for Tuesday’s report, “A ‘Diversity Bake Sale’…

No Liberals in Congress? So Suggests NYT's Steinhauer

September 27th, 2011 12:08 PM
New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer showed typical Times labeling slant in her Saturday update on Congress’s so-far-failed attempts to keep the government open after the end of the month. After House approval of its stopgap bill after midnight on Friday, the Senate voted 59 to 36 to set aside the House bill, with a handful of conservative Republicans joining with Democrats to deliver…