NY Times Vet, Now Politics Site Chief at AOL: 'Kennedy Has Been a Huge
August 27th, 2009 7:02 PM
Melinda Henneberger, Editor-in-Chief of AOL's PoliticsDaily.com site where her bio touts how her “son’s first utterance beyond ma-ma and da-da really was 'algore,'” boasted on Thursday's Hardball of her infatuation with the late Senator Edward Kennedy and admiration for his left-wing policies, declaring: Ted Kennedy has been a huge inspiration to me and just listening to the coverage over the…
NYT: Ted Kennedy 'Attended Mass Every Day in the Year After His Mother
August 27th, 2009 5:29 PM
Thursday's front-page New York Times tribute to the last days of Sen. Ted Kennedy was penned by the paper's political profiler Mark Leibovich. Leibovich reliably showers love on liberal Democrats, as shown in his profiles of "happy warrior" Sen. Chris Dodd and "compelling pop-culture icon" Al Gore, but doesn't care much for Republicans like the "cantankerous" Rep. James Sensenbrenner or Sen.…
NYT's Ted Kennedy Obit Avoids the Jesse Helms Treatment
August 26th, 2009 3:41 PM
News of Sen. Ted Kennedy's death late Tuesday night didn't make the Wednesday print edition of the New York Times, but a 6,000-word obituary by John Broder was posted on nytimes.com this morning: "Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies." Broder's obituary left room for the lowlights of Kennedy's career, including Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick and Kennedy's ruthless personal attack on…
NY Times Turnaround? Concerns Over 'Death Panels' Suddenly Not So Biza
August 24th, 2009 3:27 PM
A turnaround on Obama-Care at the New York Times? Not quite, but health reporter Robert Pear's corrective story Friday, "A Basis Is Seen for Some Health Plan Fears Among the Elderly," did make some surprising concessions to conservative concerns about rationing of health care for the elderly under an Obama plan. Might those horror stories about "death panels," declared "false" by the Times just a…
Civil Libertarian Nat Hentoff 'Scared' Of Obama Admin; Formerly Admiri
August 24th, 2009 1:35 AM
A well-known newspaper had this to say about writer Nat Hentoff upon his departure from the Villiage Voice at the end of 2008 after a 50-year run:Across his 83 years, his three dozen books and his countless newspaper columns and magazine articles, Mr. Hentoff has championed free speech and opposed censorship of any kind, whether by liberals or conservatives. Few have more assiduously and…
Follow-Up: Virtually No U.S. Media Interest In 'Imploding' Canadian Pr
August 21st, 2009 12:45 AM
On Sunday evening, NewsBusters colleague Noel Sheppard highlighted a health care-related story from the Canadian Press (CP), which is that country's rough equivalent to the USA's Associated Press.It appears that the CP is more open to reporting inconvenient news than is "our" AP, judging from a report earlier that day by the CP's Jennifer Graham. In an interview with Graham, the incoming…
NYT's Goodnough Fails to See Cynical Motive in Kennedy Senate Request
August 20th, 2009 5:27 PM
Five years after he successfully lobbied state legislators to change his state's law governing the filling of Senate vacancies, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy (D) now wants the law changed again. Kennedy successfully encouraged Democratic state legislators in 2004 to push through a change in the law in order to thwart the possibility of then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) appointing a Republican…
N.Y. Times Remembers the 'Kinder, Gentler, More Conservative Take' of
August 20th, 2009 4:58 PM
In a Thursday New York Times appreciation of CBS producer Don Hewitt, television writer Mike Hale avoided the whole concept of liberal bias in the work of Hewitt or his creation, 60 Minutes. Instead, Hale suggested that in threading the needle between an "increasingly radicalized" audience and stuffy advertisers, CBS and Hewitt created a "kinder, gentler, more conservative take" for 60 Minutes…
A 'Sweeping Anti-Abortion Law' That Doesn't Ban Abortions
August 20th, 2009 3:04 PM
On Tuesday, an Oklahoma state judge struck down "one of the most sweeping anti-abortion laws in the country" and in response yesterday, Republican state legislators vowed to "pass the law again in a different form," New York Times reporter James C. McKinley Jr. noted in the August 20 paper. "It almost reaches the stage of seeming cruel to me," McKinley quoted Planned Parenthood official Anita…
Karl Marx Is 'Back in Vogue,' NYT Book Reviewer Enthuses
August 19th, 2009 5:35 PM
New York Times book critic Dwight Garner on Wednesday enthused over a new biography of Friedrich Engels, cooing that Marxism is "back in vogue" and adding that the founding communist comes across as a "jovial man of outsize appetites" in Tristram Hunt’s new biography "Marx’s General." Garner opened the review by insisting that decrying capitalism is now hip again: "Thanks to globalism’s…
'Churlish,' 'Pugnacious' Novak Couldn't Always Document Scoops, NYT Ch
August 19th, 2009 4:23 PM
According to the New York Times’ Douglas Martin and Jacques Steinberg, the "often churlish," "pugnacious" Robert Novak "could not always document" his scoops. Littered in the August 19 obituary of the conservative journalist are other snide remarks and asides. Discussing the political column that Novak co-wrote for 30 years with Rowland Evans, the reporters worried, "For all its influence, though…
Shhh! Gallup Reports That Conservatives Outnumber Libs in All 50 State
August 17th, 2009 11:25 PM
You know this is important polling news, because the establishment media is pretending it doesn't exist. You can't find a relevant reference to it in searches on "Gallup" at the New York Times, AP.org, the Washington Post, or the LA Times. A Google News search on "Gallup conservatives outnumber liberals" (not in quotes) comes up with all of eight results. The news isn't just that self-…
