NY Times: OK to Defend American Taliban, But Defending Big Tobacco Ver

Clay Waters
March 27th, 2009 3:11 PM
It's enlightening to see what topics New York Times editors find disturbing and newsworthy and which ones they shrug off or ignore.New York's new senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, is a Democrat who is nonetheless under strong suspicions at the liberal Times for her support of gun rights and her previous representation of a white conservative district. On Friday's front page, she came under fire via a…
 

Media Forgets Obama's Nominee to Justice Dept. Was a Terrorist's Lawye

Warner Todd Huston
March 13th, 2009 2:05 AM
On March 9, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of Barack Obama's latest nominees. This time it was to assess the suitability of Tony West, Obama's nominee for the assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Division. Things went "smoothly" according to the San Jose Mercury News, also publishing a nice bio of West. The Washington Post merely…