Sigh: NYT's Zernike Sees Sexism in Sad Downfall of Ivy League Leaders
January 31st, 2024 9:15 PM
New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, infamous here for her hostile coverage of the Tea Party, absorbed an interesting takeaway from the spectacle of three Ivy League college presidents who testified before Congress and refused to condemn rallies in support of anti-Semitism on their progressive campuses: sexism! Zernike’s Monday piece, “Ivy League Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender ...…
NYTimes: Fight for Fetal Personhood Mere ‘Strategy,’ Fetal Pain a Myth
August 24th, 2022 11:53 PM
Are conservatives not allowed to hold genuine beliefs on abortion? The front page of Monday’s New York Times showed the outlet once again reducing actual pro-life beliefs to cynical politics. Reporter Kate Zernike wrote “Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes.” Zernike showed her pro-choice bona fides in this story about pro-life activists working to confer personhood…
NY Times Frets About Freedom of the Press as Palin's Libel Suit Looms
January 25th, 2022 5:46 PM
A June 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2011 attempted assassination of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead. Palin filed a defamation suit. The Times is worried that the press’s free ride in the judicial system may be ending, as demonstrated in Jeremy Peters’ “Sarah…
NYTimes Notes 'Unmasked' March for Life, Gives Saboteurs A Say
January 22nd, 2022 3:43 PM
The New York Times covered the 2022 annual pro-life March for Life rally in Saturday’s edition: “March for Life Rally Unfolds with Eye on Supreme Court” reported by Kate Zernike (back with a byline after a long absence) and Madeleine Ngo. The March for Life, which takes place every year in late January, around the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that…
Hitting From Left, NYT Sells Klobuchar as Centrist, Harris Principled
February 11th, 2019 6:10 PM
There was a consistency in stories from the New York Times Monday, with reporters taking left-wing jabs against two Democratic senators who have launched presidential campaigns The profile of Minnesota’s Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar launch in the snow by Mitch Smith and Lisa Lerer falsely tried to pose her as a non-threatening moderate: “Klobuchar Enters Race With Appeal to Center.” The front-…
NY Times Accuses Trump of ‘Mansplaining’ Triumphant Pelosi
December 12th, 2018 8:07 PM
The New York Times had a sporting take on the unusual live-television argument that occurred in the White House on Tuesday, with President Trump squaring off against Democratic congressional leaders Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi over a border wall and a government shutdown: “Pelosi Tells Trump: ‘Don’t Characterize the Strength That I Bring.’” Reporters Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Annie…
NYT on Pelosi, the Dems’ Ginger Rogers vs ‘Republican-stoked Misogyny'
November 5th, 2018 2:43 PM
With her position in the Democratic Party up for grabs as the elections loom, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was the recipient of a loving profile by New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, “Demonized or Celebrated, Pelosi Stands Firm and Refuses to Agonize.” The text box: “A lawmaker eagerly awaits more female legislators to mentor.” Zernike's text is fawning and defensive of her supposed news…
Reagan’s Fault: NY Times' Kate Zernike on Why Accuser Stayed Quiet
September 22nd, 2018 3:22 PM
New York Times reporter Kate Zernike made Saturday’s front page with her take on how Christine Blasey's allegation against Brett Kavanaugh is playing with the public: “Swing District Supports Her, But Gingerly,” from Doylestown, Pa. Zernike was struck that no one she talked to brought up Anita Hill -- but what about Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband? Bizarrely, Zernike skipped Clinton and reached…
NYT Avoids 'Abortion,' Hails 'Health Care' Provider Planned Parenthood
September 14th, 2018 10:03 AM
The New York Times again provided favorable, euphemistic coverage to the nation’s largest abortion provider (er, "health care" provider), while finding ideology only among its enemies. Reporter Kate Zernike introduced Planned Parenthood’s new leader Dr. Leana Wen, while avoiding the word "abortion" as long as she could: "Planned Parenthood, under fire from conservatives in Washington and state…
NYT’s Coffee Chats With Dem Female Candidates: ‘Congratulations Again'
September 13th, 2018 12:18 PM
Is the New York Times using a “Year of the Woman” reporting angle to sneak in unchallenging coverage of anti-Trump Democrats into their paper (and into higher office)? Kate Zernike’s profile of a New Jersey Democrat led the paper’s National section: “Jousting With Election Opponents and Wiping Runny Noses.” Zernike didn’tgo after her subjects with hard journalistic scrutiny, leading the cheers…
NYT Front Page Screams GOP’s ‘Next Objective: Cutting the Safety Net’
December 3rd, 2017 4:53 PM
Another day, another left-wing report hammering the Republican tax plan on the front page of the New York Times, this time in the lead section on Sunday. Kate Zernike and Alan Rappeport penned one of a pair of lead stories on the Republican’s passing their tax plan in the Senate, under a headline that didn't even nod toward objectivity: “Next Objective: Cutting the Safety Net.”
NYT Lauds ‘Grass-Roots Activism’ of Liberals; Smeared Racist Tea Party
February 20th, 2017 9:51 AM
On the front of Saturday’s New York Times, reporters Kate Zenrike and Alexander Burns celebrated liberal “wrath” against Republican congressmen threatening to repeal Obamacare in “Wrath Awaits G.O.P. Leaders During Recess – Liberal Groups Vow to Fight for Health Law.” The positive story was a far cry from the hostility that the Times greeted the original protests against Obamacare in 2009, and…
After Sliming Tea Party's Racist Brew, NYT’s Zernike Now Likes Taste
February 7th, 2017 8:01 PM
New York Times Kate Zernike made Monday’s front page praising the newly energized anti-Trump left with a back-handed compliment to a protest movement on the other side of the political spectrum: “Tea Party Reveals a Right Way For the Left to Make Its Stand.” That's not exactly what she was writing between 2009-2011, when she took every opportunity to smear the movement as old, white and possibly…
NY Times Hits Christie (Not Hillary) on 'Fondness for Luxe Benefits'
February 4th, 2015 12:16 PM
The New York Times demonstrated their ardor to take Chris Christie down a peg again in the Tuesday front page story headlined “In Christie’s Career, Fondness for Luxe Benefits.” Reporters Kate Zernike and Michael Barbaro did a “deep dive” into Christie’s fondness for private planes and luxury hotels.
So try a Nexis search over the last year for “Hillary Clinton” and “private planes” or “private…
