Sulzberger Claims NYT's Not Political, But Trump's an Authoritarian!

September 5th, 2024 3:51 PM

Trump-loathing liberals were delighted when New York Times publisher Arthur Gregg Sulzberger wrote a long op-ed in The Washington Post attacking Donald Trump as a threat to press freedom. The message? "I have no interest in wading into politics, but this Trump guy is a danger to freedom of speech." So that would suggest "don't vote for Trump."

A More or Less Perfect Union

February 12th, 2020 5:07 PM
“A More or Less Perfect Union” is a three-part series, produced by Free to Choose Network, that will air on various PBS stations across the nation starting in February. The documentary is a personal exploration of the U.S. Constitution by Justice Douglas Ginsburg, who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit and is now a senior justice on the court.

Wall St. Journal Prints NYT Boss Hammering Trump for Using the T-Word

June 21st, 2019 11:26 AM
It’s not a surprise when the New York Times and Brian Stelter -- chief media correspondent for CNN –-- agree on something attacking President Trump. However, when the Wall Street Journal joins those other outlets, more people pay attention. The shared op-ed was written by Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger under the title “Accusing the New York Times of ‘Treason,’ Trump Crosses a Line” and slammed…

Politico Magazine Ridicules Recently Retired New York Times Publisher

January 14th, 2018 2:56 PM
If recently retired New York Times publisher, Arthur O. "Pinch" Sulzberger, expected to finally receive some respect now that he has turned the keys of his newspaper kingdom over to his son, A.G. Sulzberger, he would be quite disappointed after reading the January 14 Politico Magazine story. Senior Media Writer Jack Shafer ridicules Sulzberger and how he ran the Times during his quarter century…

Bill Kristol Slams New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger: ‘Mr

May 18th, 2014 3:31 PM
Appearing as a guest on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative publication the Weekly Standard, mocked liberals’ outrage over the firing of Jill Abramson as editor of The New York Times.  Speaking on Sunday, May 18, Kristol remarked that liberals should be angry at one person, Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times: “Who is the they…

Top 10 for the 10th Anniversary of Times Watch: Presenting the Absolut

March 31st, 2013 11:24 AM
This week marks 10 years of Times Watch, the Media Research Center's project monitoring the liberal bias of the New York Times, America's most influential newspaper. Over the course of roughly 3,500 posts since March 2003, we have followed the Times through events historic (wars in Afghanistan and Iraq), pathetic (Jayson Blair, Howell Raines) and dangerous (the paper scuttling two separate anti…

Senator McConnell Tells NewsBusters 'Maybe the Heat Is Getting to Chri

September 4th, 2012 11:06 AM
On the final day of last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky sat down with NewsBusters to discuss amongst other things our favorite topic - liberal media bias. In the course of our lengthy discussion, McConnell addressed Chris Matthews's claim that Republicans are being racist when they accuse President Obama of engaging in…

NewsBusters Interview: Sen. McConnell Strikes Back at the New York Tim

July 11th, 2012 7:15 PM
The New York Times on Sunday published an editorial highly critical of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) position on the Disclose Act. McConnell spoke with NewsBusters Wednesday about why he thinks the Times and other liberal media outlets are in favor of this controversial anti-free speech bill.

Betrayed Staffers Rebel Against the 1% in New York Times Executive Sui

January 6th, 2012 10:40 AM
Talk about the 1% Percent! Even as the New York Times is freezing pensions for foreign citizen employees in overseas bureaus, it granted a $15 million golden parachute to former chief executive Janet Robinson after she abruptly departed the New York Times Co. t the end of 2011. An online open letter to Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. from the local Newspaper Guild dated December 23 has so far…

More NY Times Hypocrisy, Attacking Lauder for Using Tax Loopholes It E

December 1st, 2011 9:38 AM
Ira Stoll dissected the New York Times’ s latest outburst of “sheer hypocrisy masquerading as journalism,” a Sunday front-page attack on the tax-shelter practices of Ronald Lauder, in a Monday post at the New York Sun website -- “Owners of New York Times Used Tax Loopholes the Paper Scored Ambassador Lauder for Using.”   A decade ago Stoll established Smarter Times, an influential blog of…

At Last: A Use For the New York Times in Print

September 11th, 2010 8:15 AM

BMI's Dan Gainor Appears on 'Fox and Friends' to Discuss 'If You Were

August 10th, 2007 3:11 PM
Business & Media Institute director Dan Gainor appeared on "Fox and Friends" this morning to talk about a blog posting by Freakanomics blogger Steven D. Levitt that asked, "If You Were a Terrorist, How Would You Attack?""This from the media right after they were criticizing how Rupert Murdoch might run The Wall Street Journal. Why doesn't anyone in the mainstream media criticize how The New…