A Deep Dive: NYT Swims in Religious Double Standards, Jews vs Muslims
A consistent double standard of New York Times coverage is how the paper treats sex- and religion-based restrictions around access to public pools, as shown by its contrasting treatment of controversies involving segregated swimming times, one involving Jews, the others involving Muslims. The most recent manifestation came in a long profile by Houston bureau chief J. David Goodman posted July…
NYT Lauds Nutty Talarico's 'Unusually Complex Theological Arguments'
The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times was graced with a profile of James Talarico, the elitist media’s newest hope to finally elect a Democrat in Texas: “Progressive Faith Powers Texas Democrat’s Run -- Evangelicals See Threat in Talarico’s Pastor.” The online headline and subhead was more provocative: “Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity? -- Jim Rigby, who rarely uses…
NY Times Ridiculously Calls Hamas-Linked CAIR a 'Civil Rights Group'
Houston bureau chief J. David Goodman sounded aggrieved in his Texas-based story in Wednesday’s paper, “Texas Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group a Terrorist.” As for the phrase “Muslim Civil Rights Group,” the Times is actually talking about the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Hamas-linked Islamic pressure group masquerading as a Muslim civil rights organization whose national…
Again? NY Times Can't Quit Scary 'Hard Right' Texas Republicans
Here they go again. New York Times Houston bureau chief J. David Goodman made Monday’s paper with this apparently newsworthy criticism of the Republican Party in Texas, “For Texas Governor, Hard Right Turn Followed a Careful Rise.” It’s the Times’ latest entry in a series of repetitive, fearmongering stories the paper has been constantly running for a decade, warning its easily frightened…
