NY Times Shock: Balanced Story on Transgender Athletes on Sunday Front

Clay Waters
May 30th, 2022 2:13 PM

New York Times national reporter Michael Powell must have shocked the paper’s liberal readership with his balanced report on transgender athletes that appeared on Sunday’s front page. Powell focused on the controversy over biological male college swimmer Lia Thomas switching to the Princeton University’s women’s swim team and breaking records, thus denying actual female swimmers…

 

Shock: NYT’s Dive Into Phony ‘Racist’ Incident at Smith College

Clay Waters
February 25th, 2021 10:56 PM

The New York Times has earned a reputation as Woke Central, with a radicalized cohort of young staffers pushing out centrist writers guilty of word-crime or anti-woke inclinations, a list including James Bennet, Bari Weiss, and Donald McNeil. So it was a welcome surprise to see, on Thursday’s front page, a balanced story on yet another racial controversy within another feverishly…

 

Woke NYT Cowards Embarrassed in NYMag: ‘Twitter Is Editing This Bitch'

Clay Waters
November 10th, 2020 10:30 AM

“Times Change -- In the Trump years, the New York Times became less dispassionate and more crusading, sparking a raw debate over the paper’s future.” That was the provocative headlines over an embarrassing expose by New York magazine contributing editor Reeves Wiedeman, posted on the magazine’s website Monday. The paper is doing very well in the Trump era; subscriptions rose from 3…

 

NYT Stumbles Upon Why People Mistrust Virus Experts: Health Hypocrisy

Clay Waters
July 8th, 2020 6:10 AM

The front page of Sunday’s New York Times featured J. David Goodman lecturing Lubbock denizens on masks: “Virus Inundates Texas, Fed by Abiding Mistrust Of Government Orders.” If that didn't get the Dumb Texas Trumpers point across, check out the text box: “Safety mandates fall on deaf ears deep in Trump country.” Why would Texans ignore public health advice? One huge hint was offered…

 

Now It’s the Hypocritical NYT Which Has ‘Decided to Let Racism Slide’

Clay Waters
August 6th, 2018 11:33 AM
After Roseanne Barr lost her hit show over a tweet, the blurb introducing television writer James Poniewozik’s report was morally convicting: "....when people decide to let racism slide, it costs the rest of us." A shame the Times chose not to apply that maxim to itself. Fast forward to the controversy over the paper’s hiring of Sarah Jeong to write about technology for the paper’s editorial…
 

Media Predictably Mock Trump’s HUD Secretary Pick Ben Carson

Business
Sam Dorman
December 5th, 2016 10:07 PM
After Donald Trump chose former presidential candidate Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), journalists ridiculed the choice, mocked Carson’s beliefs and labeled him a “scammer.” Squawk Box co-anchor Joe Kernen anticipated the liberal media reaction on Dec. 5, saying, "Let's see, he's not a billionaire, so how's the mainstream media going to trash him? He's a…
 

NYT Puts on Full-Court Press for NBA’s Politicized Gun Control Push

Clay Waters
December 24th, 2015 3:00 PM
On Christmas Eve the New York Times pushed the NBA’s new gun control campaign (that's NBA, not NRA), both on the front page and the front of the Sports section. The sports editors really performed a full-court press, taking a local angle with an over-the-top deck of headlines above an enormous picture of New York Knicks player Carmelo Anthony: “Trying to Drown Out The Din of Gunshots – No…
 

Irony: NYTimes Journalist Sees 'Dirty Tricks' in Young Conservatives G

Clay Waters
April 3rd, 2012 5:39 PM
Tuesday's New York Times "Gotham" column by Michael Powell went after conservative guerilla journalism in New York City: "At Advocates' Offices, Confronting an Anti-Liberal Scheme." Powell, a well-known opponent of former New York City Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a Metro reporter, portrayed methods that have an honored place in investigative journalism as "dirty tricks" when done by…
 

NYT Goes Label-Crazy on 'Conservatives' in 2012, But in 2008 Dems Were

Clay Waters
January 5th, 2012 2:56 PM
Thursday’s lead story on the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses, “Romney Showing Financial Muscle For Next Round,” found New York Times reporters Jim Rutenberg (pictured) and Jeff Zeleny a little label-happy in Manchester, New Hampshire, using twelve variations on the “conservative” label in a 1,236-word story. By contrast, back in 2008, the Times’s Michael Powell actually called the liberal Gov…
 

'Fiscal Conservatism...Comes With Its Own Costs,' NY Times Warns India

Clay Waters
June 24th, 2011 9:08 AM
“Fiscal conservatism, in other words, comes with its own costs.” That sums up the lead story in Thursday’s National section by Michael Powell and Midwest bureau chief Monica Davey from Indianapolis, “The Indiana Exception? Yes, but...A State Averts the Worst of the Recession, But Its Success Comes at a Steep Social Cost.” It’s a major story, packed with statistics and charts and interviews,…
 

GOP Already Doomed in 2012, Says the New York Times After Special Elec

Clay Waters
May 25th, 2011 2:43 PM
The New York Times provided big play to Tuesday’s special congressional election to fill New York's 26th congressional district near Buffalo, a race in which Democrat Kathy Hochul upset Republican Jane Corwin. Reporter Raymond Hernandez was quick to assume this one special race spells bad news for Republican plans to reform Medicare, and their prospects in the national elections 18 months away…
 

NYT Leads With Optimism Based on 8.8% Joblessness: 'A Lift for Obama

Clay Waters
April 4th, 2011 2:19 PM
Michael Powell’s New York Times story on the latest job figures made the lead slot in Saturday’s Times, with a headline portraying a revitalized Obama and a defensive G.O.P. “U.S. Posts A Gain Of 216,000 Jobs, A Lift For Obama -- Private Sector On Rise -- As Jobless Rate Falls to 8.8%, White House Warns G.O.P.” One might not think an 8.8% unemployment rate would be cause for swagger and…
 

Giuliani-Hostile NYT Reporter Delivers Backhanded Praise to the 'Savon

Clay Waters
December 28th, 2009 1:51 PM
The New York Times's veteran New York-based reporter Michael Powell, who suggested Rudy Giuliani played the race card as mayor in a Sunday front-page story in July 2007, abruptly admitted that many of the attacks on the former New York mayor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate were “caricatures.” Powell’s admission and other bits of backhanded praise came, conveniently enough, in a…
 

WaPo: Dubya Now Lives In 'Insular World,' Squarely Among the '33 Perce

Tim Graham
April 11th, 2009 9:35 AM
George W. Bush has taken up a quiet post-presidential life. Like his father, he has sworn off any public denunciation of his Democratic successor. The Washington Post has an odd way of showing appreciation for Bush’s humble exit: mocking him on Saturday’s front page about his return to Texas: "In Insular World, the Negative Is Left Behind." Sound like corporate synergy with Newsweek from a few…