NY Times Lead Story: Blame Trump, Musk, Republicans for Election Lies

October 25th, 2024 9:44 PM

New York Times reporter and censorship supporter Steven Lee Myers’ “news analysis” led Thursday’s front page: “Voters Strain Under Deluge Of Untruths -- Disinformation Climbs to a Sordid New Peak.” And who’s responsible? The Russians, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans in general. Myers blamed Musk for helping spread false claims from Russia about Gov. Tim Walz.

NYT Runs 3,984-Word Eulogy Decrying Death of Gov’t-Big Tech Collusion

March 18th, 2024 1:43 PM

The Old Gray Lady continues to behave like a Karen triggered by people’s ability to express their opinions about elections freely online. Darn that pesky free speech!

Vexed Over X! NY Times Weeps for Lost Blue Checks, Musk’s ‘Hellscape'

October 30th, 2023 6:11 AM

First the Washington Post, then the New York Times went after the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, one year after techno-entrepreneur Elon Musk purchased it and shone a light on the previous regimes squelching of conservative voices in favor of liberal “blue checks” and other anointed ones, and possibly swinging the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden (see “…

NYTimes Defends Censorship Acts by Feds to Stop COVID 'Disinformation'

June 22nd, 2023 9:11 AM

Reporters Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel made the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times with "G.O.P. Strikes At Researchers Into Deception -- A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.” It’s yet another Times attempt to dismiss concerns about the…

NYT: First Amendment 'Barrier' to Democracy-Saving Big-Tech Censorship

February 13th, 2023 9:29 PM

New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers -- a journalist -- nevertheless sees free speech as a threat to whatever a Democratic administration declares is "disinformation," in a front-page article Friday, featuring the online title “Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head.” Myers even suggested democracy could fall without Big Tech exercising proper censorship…

NYT Spent Two Years Boasting How China Beat Covid by Squashing Freedom

December 4th, 2022 1:09 PM

While the New York Times is now accurately covering the backlash of the Chinese people to the Communist regime’s authoritarian and counterproductive attempts to eradicate COVID, the paper hailed the success of China’s authoritarian approach, when the regime first made the West believe it had somehow conquered a highly contagious airborne virus. One particularly sordid example…

Again? NYT Page One 'Disinfo' Dud Digs Up Disinfo-Board Czar Jankowicz

October 22nd, 2022 8:42 PM

The New York Times front page on Friday sounded a familiar refrain on the perils of conservative “disinformation” in “Exploding Online, Disinformation Is Now a Fixture of U.S. Politics.” But beyond the latest tiresome rehash that reporters Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel made of what former President Trump is now spouting on his social media platform, the piece also relied on the…

NYT Wails Biden’s Ministry of Truth a ‘Victim’ of ‘Disinformation’

May 19th, 2022 11:24 AM

The New York Times had a cow over the apparent demise of President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board and painted it as a victim of — wait for it — disinformation.

NYT Buries Trump's 'No Clear Link to Russia' — on Page A21

November 1st, 2016 6:58 PM
At the New York Times Monday evening, Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers reported that "none of the (FBI) investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government."

NYT: Hillary Passive Victim of 'Questions' She Can't 'Put Behind Her'

August 23rd, 2016 12:37 PM
Hillary Clinton evidently doesn’t actually commit scandalous or criminal behavior, she merely is pressed by questions that passively “shadow” her and “follow” her presidential campaign. That’s the tone of recent New York Times scandal coverage on Clinton’s various controveries involving her foudation and her handling of classified documents, both of which have gained new life with a big new batch…

NYT Shills for Hill on Front, Plays Everyone-Does-It Defense on Email

May 11th, 2016 8:14 PM
Hillary Clinton’s road to the Democratic nomination may be strewn with stones like Bernie Sanders, who won the West Virginia primary Tuesday night. But Clinton can always count on rock-solid support from her base at the New York Times. On Wednesday’s front page, reporter Steven Lee Myers mounted an “everyone-does-it” defense of Hillary in her ongoing controversy over classified intelligence…

NYT Changes Headline, Content of Report on Obama's Failure to Win 'Wid

September 8th, 2013 10:53 AM
On Friday, as seen in Google News search results showing posts and feeds at other web sites, a report at the New York Times by Peter Baker and Steven Lee Meyers had the following headline "Obama Fails in Bid for Wide Backing for Syria Attack." On Twitter, self-described "conservative academic" Will Antonin wondered (HT Twitchy), "How long until this NYT headline is changed?" The answer: Not…

NYTimes Mag Celebrates 'Iconic' Hillary, 'Highminded' Yet 'Hardheaded

July 3rd, 2012 12:13 PM
Reporter Steven Lee Myers heaped praise on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a 5,500-word profile for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, evident in the title, "Last Tour of the Rock-Star Diplomat." One of Myers's big scoops is that Hillary Clinton can remember names and personal details, which is apparently just as important as all that foreign policy guff: "Whatever she might have…

NY Times Suddenly OK With Warring President: Is Obama Intervention in

August 30th, 2011 3:49 PM
Is Syria next on Obama’s intervention list? New York Times reporters Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers speculate in Monday’s “U.S. Tactics in Libya May Be a Model for Other Efforts.” The text box works in a typical crack at Bush administration foreign policy: “Using force when justified but not going it alone.”  The implication, common in the pages of the Times, is that Bush somehow went it…