Replacing Kristol: NYT Won't Guarantee Another Conservative
January 29th, 2009 3:15 PM
In what can only be interpreted as another blow to media balance & fairness, the New York Times has refused to guarantee that another conservative would replace fired columnist Bill Kristol.On Monday, it was announced that Kristol's gig with the New York Times had come to an abrupt end. My colleague, Noel Sheppard, quoting a report in the Daily Beast, noted the conflicting and contradictory…
NY Times Sniffs: Sen. Gillibrand Too Conservative for Multi-Ethnic Sta
January 28th, 2009 3:18 PM
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand is the new senator from New York, replacing Hillary Clinton, who resigned her Senate seat to become Secretary of State in the Obama administration. But the New York Times hasn't exactly rolled out the welcome mat. So far the paper has done little but nag Gillibrand for being insufficiently liberal, pushing her to back away from her stands against amnesty for illegal…
Did NYT Fire Bill Kristol for Failure to Check Facts or Disloyalty
January 26th, 2009 11:53 AM
Is the New York Times suddenly concerned with facts in its opinion pieces? Such appears to be the case as information concerning the firing of conservative columnist Bill Kristol begins to surface.Makes you wonder if such a standard will be required of the Times' liberal contributors given what the Daily Beast reported moments ago:
Think Progress Angry Obama's Conservative Dinner Party Failed
January 25th, 2009 11:27 PM
The George Soros-funded Clinton front-group Think Progress expressed disappointment Sunday that conservative journalists who attended a dinner party with Barack Obama a few weeks ago haven't abandoned their political principles and become bleeding-heart liberals.I kid you not.Readers are forewarned to remove all food and fluids from their computer's proximity, for this is some truly hilarious…
CBS’s Rodriguez Cites NYT to Criticize Obama Gitmo Decision
January 23rd, 2009 3:17 PM
In a rare instance of critical coverage of the Obama administration on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman about Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay: "I'm not sure if you've seen the New York Times this morning. On the front page there is an article that reveals that a terror suspect released from Guantanamo a few months ago...is now…
With Geithner, Kennedy, Will Media Raise Concerns About Democratic Cul
January 22nd, 2009 5:23 PM
As Barack Obama's tax-delinquent Treasury pick Tim Geithner appears to be sailing smoothly towards nomination, it seems Caroline Kennedy's once all-but-apparent ascension to the vacant Senate seat for New York seems to be dead in the water and sinking fast.As the New York Times is reporting, tax issues appear to be responsible for sinking the Kennedy bid:ALBANY - Problems involving taxes and a…
The New York Times Throws a Hip Inauguration Party for Obama
January 22nd, 2009 5:03 PM
The New York Times celebrated Obama's presidency Inauguration Night at a hip location in the already painfully hip Lower East Side of Manhattan. Reid Pillifant, blogging for the New York Observer, filed the day after Tuesday night's NYT party at the New Museum on the Bowery, a Twitter-ific shindig co-sponsored by Facebook: Last night at the New Museum on the Bowery, a crowd of left-behind New…
On NYT Front Page, Obama Now Being Praised for...Reading
January 19th, 2009 4:22 PM
In the run-up to Barack Obama's inauguration, the New York Times has run several articles praising the President-elect's "eloquence," the most visible being Monday's front-page story by the paper's lead book critic (and prominent Bush-basher) Michiko Kakutani, "From Books, New President Found Voice," who praised Obama for...reading:In college, as he was getting involved in protests against the…
If Hollywood ‘Made’ Obama, It Also Made Problem Issues
January 19th, 2009 3:28 PM
Next time someone dismisses the idea that mass media can exert influence on American culture, point to a Jan. 18 New York Times article titled, "How the Movies Made a President." In that piece, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott argue that fictional depictions of black U.S. presidents helped pave the way for a real one. “The presidencies of James Earl Jones in ‘The Man,’ Morgan Freeman in ‘Deep Impact…
New York Times: 'It's Even Cool to Wave the Stars and Stripes' Because
January 19th, 2009 12:19 AM
Byron York from NRO's The Corner Blog noticed an interesting little tidbit in The New York Times on January 18. In the Times' recounting of all the interesting events going on in the Capitol surrounding the inauguration of The One, the Times seemed very excited that it was suddenly "cool" to be patriotic.
WASHINGTON is suddenly hip again, infused with the heady double-barreled combination of a…
Media Matters Bashes NYT for Exposing Sundance's Green Hypocrisy
January 18th, 2009 8:05 PM
The good folks at Media Matters for America are displeased with the New York Times having the nerve to point out the hypocrisy inherent in environmentalists destroying the environment.For those that don't actually care about such things, the Sundance Film Festival began last Thursday, and as the video embedded right demonstrates, the organizers are supposedly going to great lengths to make this…
Obama-Loving HBO, Will Ferrell Team Up to Bash Bush on Broadway
January 18th, 2009 12:42 PM
HBO not only bought the rights to broadcast Obama-hallowing Inauguration events. Patrick Healy of The New York Times reported on Wednesday it’s also bankrolling Will Ferrell’s one-man Broadway stage show mocking George W. Bush called "You’re Welcome, America" over the next few months. (They’ll also air it on HBO in March.) Ferrell talked to the Times about Bush’s election in 2000: "It was just…
