NYT Downplays Own Poll Showing More Think Spending Cuts Didn't Go Far

August 5th, 2011 2:44 PM
The New York Times on Friday downplayed results in its own poll that found 44 percent of respondents think the cuts in the debt deal didn't go far enough, versus only 15 percent who said "too far." In an article starting on the front page, writers Michael Cooper and Megan Thee-Brenan didn't mention this fact until the ninth paragraph of page A-14.

Early Show, NYT Report What CBS Evening News Ignored: Own Poll Showing

August 5th, 2011 1:30 PM
While CBS's Early Show and the New York Times both highlighted their own poll showing support for further spending cuts, the CBS Evening News ignored it. Americans three-to-one believe the spending cuts in the debt ceiling deal were too small rather than too big, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. As NewsBusters reported, Thursday's CBS Evening News ignored the support for cuts…

Why Did The New York Times Ignore The Biden 'Terrorist' Story

August 4th, 2011 8:49 PM
The New York Times ignored the Politico story reporting that several sources had heard Vice President Joe Biden called the Tea Party backed lawmakers "terrorists." When the Vice President's office was contacted about the story they at first declined to comment. Then they put out at statement saying that the vice president does not believe it’s an appropriate term in political discourse. Which…

Unhinged: Times' Maureen Dowd Excoriates 'Cannibal' 'Vampire' Tea Part

August 4th, 2011 3:54 PM
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Wednesday  continued to ramp up the newspaper's vitriolic attacks against Tea Party conservatives, bizarrely describing them as "cannibals" "zombies" and "vampires." Connecting the debt ceiling deal to The Exorcist, Halloween and Alien (among other horror movies), Dowd offered these hyperbolic comparisons:

Echoing Democrats and MSNBC, NY Times Editorial Slams GOP for Taking F

August 4th, 2011 2:52 PM
Although it’s Senate Democrats who are refusing to debate and vote on a House plan to fund the Federal Aviation Administration through September 16, the New York Times editorial board today followed the lead of Democrats and MSNBC in slamming Republicans as “hostage” takers. “Republicans, who are experts at such maneuvers, have been holding the reauthorization of the F.A.A. hostage for months…

Reporting How Cubans May Finally Be Able to Own Their Houses, NY Times

August 3rd, 2011 5:58 PM
Leave it to the New York Times to worry about income disparity and gentrification… in Cuba. In his August 3 story “Cubans Set for Big Change: Right to Buy Homes,” correspondent Damien Cave reported on how Cubans will finally be able – albeit doubtless with numerous restrictions – to own their own houses come legislative changes expected to be enacted later this year. “[E]ven with some state…

NYT's McKinley Omits Role Pro-Abortion Group NARAL Playing in San Fran

August 3rd, 2011 4:31 PM
An arguably unconstitutional effort in San Francisco at regulating the speech of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers was portrayed by New York Times reporter Jesse McKinley as an effort to “stem… misleading advertising”: Seeking to stem what they call misleading advertising, San Francisco officials on Tuesday began a two-pronged attack on ‘crisis pregnancy centers,’ which are billed as…

NYT's Joe Nocera Spews Venom at 'Terrorist' Tea Partiers for Strapping

August 3rd, 2011 12:10 PM
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera on Tuesday viciously attacked Tea Party Republicans as "terrorists" who wore a "suicide vests" during the debt ceiling debate. Continuing the paper's habit of comparing congressional GOP members to murderers, Nocera derided:

NYT's Bittman Finds Enthusiastic Comrade for Junk Food-Tax Crusade in

August 2nd, 2011 6:02 PM
New York Times food writer and junk food sin-tax advocate Mark Bittman took to the August 2 edition of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan” show as part of his promotional tour for “Bad Food? Tax It.” He found a receptive, uncritical audience in the former CNBC business reporter. “It’s like, do you want to use taxes to help people or do you want to use taxes to hurt people? It seems to me right now we’re…

Now They Tell Us: 'Lowering Nation's Credit Rating May Have Little Eff

August 1st, 2011 5:59 PM
Better late than never, perhaps, but in Sunday’s paper the Times noted that “Lowering Nation’s Credit Rating May Have Little Effect, Economists Suggest.” The article, by Binyamin Appelbaum article, was buried on page A14 (emphasis mine):

Media Reality Check: During Debt Talks, Liberal Media Savaged Tea Part

August 1st, 2011 3:47 PM
For the past month, as the debt talks slogged on in Washington, the so-called mainstream media unleashed increasingly hysterical attacks on the Tea Party and anti-tax hike conservatives — epitomizing the liberal elite’s supreme annoyance at the push to curb federal spending and contain the size of government. The media’s disdainful language has ranged from the merely condescending (wondering…

NY Times' Zeleny: 'Both Sides' 'Bruised' in Debt Ceiling Deal; Only Co

August 1st, 2011 3:07 PM
In a front-page “news analysis” piece this morning, Times national political correspondent Jeff Zeleny pronounced that “After a Protracted Fight, Both Sides Emerge Bruised.” Yet Zeleny’s analysis was chock full of the typical liberal bias slant that puffs up President Obama, slams the Tea Party as “intractable” and ignores the partisanship of liberal Senate members, particularly Harry Reid (…

Krugman: 'Those Demanding Spending Cuts Now Are Like Medieval Doctors

August 1st, 2011 9:09 AM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is not happy with the deal Congress and the President apparently have agreed upon to end the debt ceiling impasse. In his Monday piece, the Nobel laureate wrote, "[T]hose demanding spending cuts now are like medieval doctors who treated the sick by bleeding them":

George Will Proposes 'Krugman Election': 'Resolved - Government Is Too

August 1st, 2011 1:33 AM
George Will and Paul Krugman had another great debate Sunday about the role of government spending in stimulating the economy. As the New York Times columnist predictably whined about the need for more federal spending not less, ABC's lone conservative said on "This Week," "It would be good to go to the electorate and have a Krugman election this time, saying: resolved, the government is too…