Censorious NYT Hopes for Perpetual Left-Wing Outrage at Rogan, Spotify
New York Times tech reporter-columnist Kevin Roose took on the controversy between hugely popular podcaster-interviewer Joe Rogan and the music-media streaming provider Spotify over supposed misinformation Rogan spread about Covid vaccines in an interview with a controversial doctor. The story dominated the front of Tuesday’s Business section: “Staying Power Of an Uproar.” It wasn’t…
Build Back … Worse? NY Times Brushes Off Falling Wages and Inflation
The New York Times seems to have fessed up to the elephant in the room. As inflation rises, President Joe Biden’s economic policies are not working for workers.
Oh, So Now the NY Times Cares About Hunter Biden? (Nets Ignore)
The New York Times announced this week it is suing Joe Biden’s State Department over a stonewalling attempt to avoid releasing e-mails connected to Hunter Biden. The paper, which has been protective of the troubled child of the President in the past, apparently has woken up that this is a story. The journalists at the networks, however, are not interested in this dramatic move by the…
NY Times Slams Conservative 'Book Bans,' Cheers Lefty Free-Speech Foes
Monday’s front-page New York Times story, “Politics Fuels Surge in Calls For Book Bans,” did liberal Democrats a favor, posing them in their flattering former costumes of fierce free-speech advocates. Meanwhile, today’s actual left-wing is a hive of free-speech squelchers and book banners, including the Times’ own reporters, who have an unseemly and anti-journalistic…
Disturbing: NYT Loves Principal Harassing Students Over Vaccinations
Student privacy? Never heard of it. The concept is cheerfully tossed aside when it suits the New York Times tactic of getting children vaccinated against Covid, a virus which poses extremely little danger to them. Times reporter Jan Hoffman earned the front page Sunday with her story on child vaccination and a D.C. school principal who doesn’t much respect medical…
NYT Aids China’s Olympic Propaganda; Uyghurs Urge Boycott
With help from the New York Times, China is shoveling propaganda to promote the 2022 Winter Olympics, which begin this weekend in Beijing. Down to their last hope of spreading the truth about China’s human rights atrocities, the Uyghurs are urging the world not to watch the Games on television. Their supporters spent years unsuccessfully attempting to urge the International Olympic…
NY Times Spins Biden Cursing at Doocy as 'Heart-Warming Civic Moment'
It's one of those New York Times stories that feels like a parody of the paper, but media reporter Michael Grynbaum tried furiously in a Sunday piece to spin President Biden's "stupid SOB" sneer at Peter Doocy into a positive. He's trying to turn sewer water into wine. It was a "heart-warming civic moment." Well, if reporter-attacking Biden is endearing, let's just say it: Michael…
Hysterical NYTimes Frets Over Country Star Morgan Wallen, Bigoted Fans
The country has largely forgiven country star Morgan Wallen for uttering a racial slur after a night out in Nashville last year. But The New York Times won’t let it go. In last Sunday’s “The Morgan Wallen Conundrum,” music critic Jon Caramanica spent a staggering 2,400 words condemning Wallen for the one offensive word. Even worse: At a Wallen concert, "there were no tables…
The COVID-19 Impact of Expressive Individualism
Philosopher Robert Bellah once posited that modern Western human beings identify themselves in a peculiar way: as emotional cores, surrounded by baser material. According to Bellah, we are expressive individualists -- meaning that “each person has a unique core of feeling and intuition that should unfold or be expressed if individuality is to be realized.” This mode of self-definition wars…
NY Times Frets About Freedom of the Press as Palin's Libel Suit Looms
A June 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2011 attempted assassination of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead. Palin filed a defamation suit. The Times is worried that the press’s free ride in the judicial system may be ending, as demonstrated in Jeremy Peters’ “Sarah…
Editor’s Pick: NY Post on Palin’s Defamation Suit Against NY Times
On Monday, the New York Post’s Ben Kesslen reported on how “Sarah Palin will square off against the New York Times Monday when her defamation case against the paper goes to trial in Manhattan.” He explained: “At the center of the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee’s federal suit is a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked Palin to the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona where six people…
Kathy Griffin Still Whining She's Not Been Canceled, but 'Erased'
If there's anyone who defines the term "First World Problems," it's Kathy Griffin. In the latest of a series of liberal-media sob stories, The New York Times promoted how "Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List." The photo shows Griffin at poolside at her mansion, and Katharine Rosman notes "She does not lack for money — she says her net worth is $50 million — but she craves the one…
NYTimes Notes 'Unmasked' March for Life, Gives Saboteurs A Say
The New York Times covered the 2022 annual pro-life March for Life rally in Saturday’s edition: “March for Life Rally Unfolds with Eye on Supreme Court” reported by Kate Zernike (back with a byline after a long absence) and Madeleine Ngo. The March for Life, which takes place every year in late January, around the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that…
Classless Krugman Rides On: 'Biden Versus the [GOP] Friends of Covid'
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is at it again, conspiracy theorizing about Republicans wanting to prolong the Covid epidemic. (Meanwhile, left elites are prolonging useless mask mandates masks and vaccine passports.) In Friday’s column, “Biden Versus the Friends of Covid,” Krugman repeated his smears against half the country, just as he did…
