NYT's Baghdad Bureau Chief: U.S. in Iraq ‘Very Important Inhibitor A
As Congress debates an expeditious and possibly capricious withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, with sickeningly predictable cheerleading for such an eventuality from the media, the Baghdad bureau chief for the New York Times claimed Tuesday that this would lead to "all-out civil war" with "levels of violence [that] would eclipse by quite a long way the bloodshed we`ve seen to date."…
Stelter Bids Farewell to TVNewser.com
Brian Stelter bids farewell to readers of TVNewser.com today. The New York Times recently hired the Towson University graduate as a media reporter and he begins that gig full time on Monday. You may have read his reporting before from our editor's picks or as occasionally excerpted in NewsBusters posts themselves. Stelter has done an excellent job with TVNewser and I'm sure he'll do well at the…
The Kennedys and Their Magical Common-Man Friends
Kennedy family folklore? The Kennedy political dynasty has certainly been blessed with blue-collar friends awaiting them at the start of their political careers. There never seems to be a shortage of horny-handed sons of toil to assure fledgling Kennedys that being rich is no impediment to being a friend of the working man. In the course of Times reporter Robin Toner's web-only column absolving…
NYT Still Smarting Over Second Amendment's Victory
It amuses and gratifies a supporter of the Second Amendment to see the New York Times, the so-called "paper of record," so constantly reduced to sputtering fools over their constant loss in the battle for draconian gun control measures, and the July 17th editorial from the Times is yet another example of how they just don't understand why the average American would pressure their Congressional…
Article or Editorial? Times Talks of Desperate Bush Admin, U.S. 'Mire
As straight news articles go, it was a heck of an editorial that appeared on the front page of yesterday's New York Times. The ostensible subject of Bush to Bolster Abbas and Seek Peace Talks was President Bush's announcement Monday of "a regional peace conference this fall to be led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that would include high-level Arab envoys and their counterparts from…
Comparing Growth in Income Inequality: Late 1990s Had More
The meme: Income inequality during the Bush Administration has widened, as the rich have gotten ever richer.
A sub-meme: Income inequality during the previous administration lessened, or at least didn’t get any worse.
But facts are stubborn things, as information obtained from the Census Bureau and viewable at the full post shows (scroll down at the link to get to inflation-adjusted data):
