New York Times

In an impressive feat of ideological dexterity, New York Times national politics reporter Jennifer Medina used the damning report outlining sexual misconduct committed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to give the Democratic Party unearned credit for its high standards on combating sexual charges in their ranks in her Tuesday article “Cuomo, Trump and Other Politicians Accused of…

Laurel Hubbard, a biologically male weightlifter who represented New Zealand in the female weight lifting category at the Tokyo Olympics (depriving an actual female of a spot) was glorified on the front of the New York Times sports section: “No Medal, No Matter: Competing Was No. 1.” Although Hubbard came in last after failing to complete any of "his" three lift attempts and having to…

Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reports PBS superstar filmmaker Ken Burns is swaggering around again and dropping bombs on Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, suggested he’s an “enemy of the state” who should be in jail. Didn’t liberal hate this kind of “enemy of the people” talk, or is that just about the news media, not the social media?

Andrew Cuomo’s allies in the press, who looked the other way at his years of bullying, are finally abandoning him. Op-eds in The New York Times, The Daily News, The Albany Times Union, even MSNBC, condemned the Democrat accused of sexually harassing and abusing multiple women. (…

New York Times labels Osama bin Laden a “devoted family man.” 

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman joined the rest of the liberal press Friday wagging his finger at Florida and its Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over its handling of the coronavirus: "At every stage of the pandemic DeSantis has effectively acted as an ally of the coronavirus...he has helped create a state of mind in which vaccine skepticism flourishes and refusal to take…

Journalists love lefty activists — especially when they are pushing propaganda. The New York Times and Washington Post both celebrated how an online “influencer army” was promoting a “personality-driven campaign” in separate weekend stories.

Tech reporter Kashmir Hill made the front of the New York Times Sunday Business section with a long story lamenting that for an arsonist accused of setting a fire in a school, “2,000 Miles Was Not Far Enough” to escape surveillance. The text box summarized: “In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, someone set a fire at a Goodwill in St. Paul. That led to an arrest in Mexico…

New York Times covid-beat reporter Apoorva Mandavilli’s overheated lead story on Saturday, “Immunized People Can Spread Virus, the C.D.C. Reports,” seized upon rushed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control. The numbers from a comprehensive study of a virus outbreak over the July 4th holiday in the coastal resort town of Provincetown seem alarming at first glance. But are the…

Washington -- We at The American Spectator call it “Kultursmog,” and it is the only kind of smog of which our friends on the left approve. Actually, they not only approve of Kultursmog, but they contribute to it. Kultursmog is that aspect of American culture that is utterly politicized, and it is politicized by the politics of the left. Its leading centers of pollution are Hollywood,…

The media are taking advantage of the politically hostile climate they created by increasingly pushing the boundaries on how much they can get away with in demonizing conservatives. New York Times  reporter Katie Benner provoked backlash Tuesday when she got a little too zealous in this effort, calling Trump supporters, “enemies of the state.”

Five years after Jim Rutenberg got the ball rolling, New York Times media reporter Marc Tracy publicly angled for even less impartial coverage of conservative political figures in “Trump Is Gone, but the Media’s Misinformation Challenge Is Still Here.” The full deck of online headlines: Should news outlets contextualize false claims made by powerful people? Or ignore them completely?…

The New York Times’ lead National section story Monday found reporter Catie Edmondson disappointed in House Republican Nancy Mace of South Carolina, in “‘New Voice’ for G.O.P. Returns to the Party’s Fold – South Carolina congresswoman’s pivot reflects rank-and-file’s reluctance to challenge Trump.” Text box: “Instead of challenging party orthodoxy, leaning in to its…

Apoorva Mandavilli, the New York Times’ chief Covid correspondent, filed Monday’s lead story: “Shot Refusal Gives Variant Room to Grow – More Vaccinations Key to Halting New Surge.” Mandavilli has a history of spreading coronavirus pessimism, and in May notoriously claimed that the "lab leak" theory had racist origins. Monday’s lead combined mild virus alarmism with partisan finger-…