Spot the Bias in NY Times Global Warming Story
March 10th, 2011 6:12 PM
Can you spot the bias? From the New York Times, a March 8 report by John M. Broder, "At House E.P.A. Hearing, Both Sides Claim Science":
David Brooks: 'New York Times Readers More Liberal Than the Journalist
March 10th, 2011 5:31 PM
David Brooks on Thursday said New York Times readers are more liberal than the journalists that write there.
During his videotaped interview with Time magazine, Brooks also explained how he tries to get this left-leaning crowd to read his articles (video follows with transcript and commentary):
NYT: U.S. 'Prepared' for $3.57 Gas, But Under Bush $2.55 Was 'Recessio
March 10th, 2011 3:47 PM
Higher gas prices? No worries, say Jad Mouawad and Nick Bunkley in Wednesday’s New York Times off-lead story, “Rising Gas Cost Finds The Nation Better Prepared – Lessons Learned In ‘08 – Less Dependence on Oil – Spike Unlikely to Derail Recovery.” Yet while $3.57 a gallon for gas isn’t worrisome for the economy in 2011, $2.55 a gallon was very much so in 2005, during the Bush years.
The…
David Brooks Slams Newt Gingrich: 'I Wouldn't Let Him Run a 7-Eleven L
March 10th, 2011 3:22 PM
New York Times columnist David Brooks Thursday took quite a swing at former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
During a videotaped interview with Time magazine, Brooks said, "I wouldn't let that guy run a 7-Eleven let alone a country" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
NY Times Issues Hostile Profile of Conservative Fla. Gov. Rick Scott
March 10th, 2011 9:34 AM
Florida’s new Republican Gov. Rick Scott is moving to cut state bureaucracy, reduce regulation and make the state a more business-friendly environment, and is meeting resistance among the old political guard in Florida. But instead of hailing the governor’s fresh blood and independence (as it had done previously with liberal Republican Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida), the New York Times does its…
Laura Ingraham Scolds David Brooks for 'Snobby' 'Elitist' Treatment of
March 9th, 2011 1:53 PM
Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday scolded New York Times columnist David Brooks for his snobby, elitist treatment of the Tea Party.
Ingraham began her admonishment, "Your judgment on the Tea Party has been fairly brutal" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
New York Times on the 'Intellectual Curiosity' and 'Mischievous Sense
March 9th, 2011 1:34 PM
Monday’s New York Times obituary by Victoria Burnett celebrated the traveling companion of the guerilla leader and Communist murderer turned t-shirt icon Che Guevara in “Alberto Granado, 88, Friend of Che, Dies," and skipped over the facts about Guevara's violent life as a left-wing "revolutionary."
Alberto Granado Jiménez, the Argentine biochemist who accompanied the young Che Guevara on his…
Racially Inflammatory Al Sharpton Gets Yet Another Pass From the New Y
March 9th, 2011 9:26 AM
The New York Times's weekly “Sunday Routine” feature is billed as “Prominent New Yorkers recount their weekend rituals.” This Sunday it featured Al Sharpton being interviewed by David Halbfinger. Halbfinger’s introduction gave no hint of why Sharpton is considered by non-Times readers as a controversial figure.
Unmistakable and formidable, if a physically reduced version of the man he once…
NYT: 'For the Sake of a Cleaner Planet, Should Americans Wear Dirtier
March 8th, 2011 6:06 PM
"For the sake of a cleaner planet, should Americans wear dirtier clothes?"
So comically began a New York Times article on the front page of the Gray Lady's Science section Tuesday ironically titled "When Energy Efficiency Sullies the Environment" (photo courtesy Viktor Koen):
Another New York Times Attack on an Opponent of Radical Islam, Brigitt
March 8th, 2011 3:15 PM
New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein made Tuesday’s front page with an attack on Brigitte Gabriel, an activist who warns against the dangers of radical Islam in the United States: “Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message.”
Interestingly, the piece is datelined Fort Worth, Texas, suggesting much of the relevant reporting was done last fall – Gabriel spoke to a Tea Party event…
NYT's Steinhauer Overdoses on 'Conservatives' in DOMA Debate, Finds No
March 8th, 2011 9:49 AM
New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer reported Saturday on the decision by House Republicans to defend the Defense of Marriage Act after the Obama White House’s took the almost-unprecedented step to stop defending it before the Supreme Court: “House Republicans Step In to Defend Marriage Act and Dodge a Party Debate.” Steinhauer, a fan of tax hikes in California (of voters, not so much,…
New York Times Inhales Free-Market Fumes in Defense of Medical Marijua
March 7th, 2011 3:34 PM
One doesn’t often see the New York Times reporting on laws and regulations that hurt business, so when you do you can assume there’s a liberal twist in the tale. From Bozeman, Mont., Denver bureau chief Kirk Johnson notified readers on the front of Sunday’s National section that “A Boon to the Economy Faces Repeal in Montana.” The “repeal” involves repealing the state’s six-year-old medical…
Paul Krugman Tip-Toes Around Facts to Jam Wisconsin Debate into Leftis
March 7th, 2011 2:30 PM
In a short video on the New York Times's website, Brian Stelter, the paper's media reporter, comments on the "interesting" trend of cable news reporters "taking sides" in the Wisconsin budget battle - with Fox News on the right and MSNBC on the left, of course - and supposedly twisting facts to fit partisan narratives.
Asked about commentators "looking for a certain narrative on the way in…
NYT's Kate Zernike Switches From Tea Party to Wisconsin, Maintains Hos
March 7th, 2011 1:46 PM
Kate Zernike, Tea Party-beat reporter for the New York Times, whose reporting on the movement is marked by hostility and unfounded suspicions of racism, switched to the pro-union left-wing protests in Wisconsin for the front of the Sunday Week in Review, “As Goes Wisconsin...” The subhead: “The Midwest’s legacy of labor activism -- and conservative pushback -- are both in play today at the…