NYTimes Poll Analyst Nate Silver Offers to Bet $2,000 on Obama Win, Ch

Clay Waters
November 2nd, 2012 2:14 PM
New York Times star poll analyst Nate Silver continues giving hope to Democrats, and he's getting more confident in an Obama victory as the election draws closer, pegging Obama's odds of victory at around 75%. After a heated debate on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the normally mild-mannered Silver offered via Twitter on Thursday to bet host Joe Scarborough $2,000 that Obama would win, which drew some…
 

NYT's Public Editor Questions 'Unwanted Baggage' of Incoming CEO Mark

Clay Waters
October 24th, 2012 4:28 PM
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan challenged her paper on its incoming chief executive Mark Thompson, who was director general of the BBC when it "killed an investigative segment on its Newsnight program about a celebrity TV personality, Jimmy Savile, accused of sexually abusing hundreds of young girls." In her Tuesday post, "Times Must Aggressively Cover Mark Thompson’s Role in…
 

NYT Ombudsman Defends Against Liberal Bias Charges on Libya; Editor Ad

Clay Waters
October 22nd, 2012 12:14 PM
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan on Sunday defended the paper against conservative criticism that it has favored Obama in its sparse Libya coverage "Connecting the Dots in Libya," and elicited this from Managing Editor Susan Chira (pictured): "We're aware that people see us as tilting liberal." But Chira also said she and her colleagues "can't be guided by that." Sullivan wrote: