New York Times Thinks the Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’ is Racist
Is the New York Times lobbying to eliminate the term "illegal immigrant" because, in its view, this designation is both politically incorrect and racist? Such appears to be the case judging from an editorial written by Lawrence Downes and published Sunday. Downes began (emphasis added throughout, h/t Hot Air):
Dowd's Santayana Overdose
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it -- George Satayana.Well and good. But becoming a prisoner of the past presents dangers, too. Stay tuned for an example of how reliance on a corollary of Satayana's rule went horribly wrong for the U.S.Maureen Dowd's column of this morning "W.M.D. in Iran? Q.E.D." is the latest example of what passes for MSM wisdom on Iran. The…
Global Warming Postponed: Tons of Snow at World Cup Opener
In March, Sports Illustrated published a lengthy cover-story dealing with how global warming was changing the face of sports including World Cup skiing which was forced to cancel one of seven events in Europe last season due to the absence of snow. Also that month, the New York Times published an article addressing how "the chaos of their calendar this season changed many [World Cup skiers] to…
NYT: World Ends in San Diego -- Illegals Hardest Hit
Leave it to the New York Times to portray illegal immigrants as the biggest victims of the wildfires. Try out this line from Glare of Fires Pulls Migrants From Shadows [emphasis added]:There were Mercedeses and Jaguars pulling out, people evacuating, and the migrants were still working,” said Enrique Morones, who takes food and blankets to the immigrants’ camps. “It’s outrageous.”Bonus points for…
Washington Post Critics Hate Pro-life Movie, Love Pro-gay Film
For the sake of the readers, and their own critical integrity, it's important that newspaper film critics review a movie first as a work of art, and then perhaps assess the political or cultural or moral messages within. A critic can love a film's message and hate its execution, or vice versa. But in Friday's Weekend section of the Washington Post, the critical reaction to two message films --…
WaPo Downplays Biden's Latest Racial Blooper; NYT, LAT Ignore It
It's time for a TGIF edition of one of our favorite games: WIARHSI. For you beginners, that's "What If A Republican Had Said It?"What if a Republican had said, in explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington:There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What…
NYT: Mexicans 'Being Squeezed' by Decline in Money Sent Home from Ille
A story from Mexico-based reporter Elisabeth Malkin on Friday's front page trawls for sympathy for poor Mexicans who come to the United States illegally to find work. Malkin went to the town of El Rodeo to find that "Mexicans Miss Money From Workers Up North." (That would be the United States.)At first glance this would seem to be a problem for Mexico. After all, who are we to interfere in…
NYT Develops Sudden Allergy to Nepotism
Sometimes chronicling media bias and hypocrisy is just too easy. You couldn't have asked for better material than what was provided Wednesday by the New York Times which ran a thousand-word-plus article discussing the alleged nepotism of Commentary’s hiring of John Podhoretz to run the magazine. (Hat tip: Ace.) I’ll grant that this type of character assassination article is typical when it comes…
Worst ‘Notable Quotables’ of the Past 20 Years: A Potpourri of Idi
To commemorate the Media Research Center’s 20th anniversary this month, we’ve just published a special expanded edition of our ‘Notable Quotables’ newsletter with more than 100 of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes we’ve uncovered over the past 20 years. To wrap up this week’s posts, I thought I’d list a few of the most outrageous or moronic quotes we’ve come across since 1987.For…
Giuliani Too 'Hawkish,' 'Hard Line' and 'Neocon' for NYT and NBC
“The people guiding” Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani “in his foreign policy message...are drawing some attention,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced Thursday evening in advancing the news agenda of a front page New York Times story which ominously warned Giuliani “is consulting with, among others, a particularly hawkish group of advisers and neoconservative thinkers…
NYT Talks Around Charlie Rangel's Big Tax Hike
A big individual income tax hike is being pushed by Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, but New York Times economics reporter Edmund Andrews failed to capture the import in a slanted front-page business section story Thursday.The Times manages not to spell out precisely where Rangel's tax-hike proposal would begin to bite on "the wealthy." "The House'…
