Wow: NYTimes Front-Page Story Credits Florida for Keeping Schools Open

Clay Waters
May 22nd, 2022 5:53 PM

The New York Times’ Shawn Hubler, reporting from California, had an obvious but still surprising take on the front of Wednesday’s edition: “Public Schools Have Lost Over a Million Students in Two Years.” Yet one had to wait until paragraph six for the Times to mention an obvious culprit: Covid restrictions that kept schools shuttered, a policy which most now admit caused…

 

NYT Terrified of Trump Trucks, Clogged Traffic, Ignored Lefty Violence

Clay Waters
November 3rd, 2020 1:36 PM

The New York Times reliably took the word of the Biden campaign that it felt threatened and had to cancel two rallies, when a group of truck-driving Trump fans in Texas surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus. It also freaked out over Trump fans slowing traffic over a bridge in New York. But the paper’s fear and loathing over political activists blocking traffic is selective. They didn…

 

NBC Punts on Joe McGinniss Obit; Hyped Palin-Bashing Book in

Matthew Balan
March 11th, 2014 3:37 PM
CNN's New Day on Tuesday devoted a 23-second news brief to the death of author Joe McGinniss on Monday, noting that "McGinniss made headlines again in 2010, when he moved next door to Sarah Palin's Alaska home in order to research his book, 'The Rogue.' Palin threatened to sue him, but never did." However, Tuesday's Today on NBC, which touted their interview of McGinnis in September 2011 by…
 

More on How Liberal Billionaires Aren't Slimed With Hate Obits

Tim Graham
January 7th, 2014 1:25 PM
Last week, I wrote up how The New York Times wrote a demonizing obituary about Harold Simmons, a major MRC donor. NPR’s Peter Overby slimed him after he died as some sort of pioneer of negative advertising.  His obituary highlighted how he “backed Swift Boat ads.” I discovered another obvious contrast in obituaries when I came across this piece on Peter Lewis in The Washington Post from…
 

Generous Texas Billionaire Dies, N.Y. Times Offers Bitter 2004 Memory

Tim Graham
December 31st, 2013 8:07 PM
Harold Simmons, the Texas billionaire who has served as chairman of the board of the Media Research Center, died Saturday. If you've enjoyed any of MRC's work over the years, one major force keeping the televisions on was Mr. Simmons. So we were especially disgusted (if not shocked) when the New York Times obituary carried the headline "Harold Simmons Dies at 82; Backed Swift Boat Ads." That’…