Former NYT Editor Behind Cotton Op-Ed Brings Receipts in EPIC Tell-All

February 26th, 2024 5:31 PM

After nearly four years of relative silence, former New York Times op-ed editor Adam Rubenstein sounded off Monday morning in a lengthy essay at The Atlantic about the embarrassing, pathetic, and disturbing episode from June 2020 in which Rubenstein was pushed out over the paper's publication of Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) infamous op-ed calling for using the military to…

Fired NYT Editor Nukes Paper's Path: ‘Liberal Bias to Illiberal Bias'

December 17th, 2023 4:04 PM

Media mavens may remember the blow the New York Times reputation took when James Bennet was forced out of his Editorial Page Editor slot at the paper. It came in June 2020, days after the paper ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas that called upon President Donald Trump to use troops to quell violence connected to Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of…

NY Times Publisher: No Liberal Bias, Just a ‘Metropolitan Sensibility'

May 16th, 2023 11:08 PM

The Columbia Journalism Review on Monday published a 12,500-word essay, “Journalism’s Essential Value,” by A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times since 2018, succeeding his father, Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr. The thesis: Out with “journalistic objectivity,” in with “journalistic independence.” And what’s that? “Independence is the…

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WEF Davos Panel Pushes ‘Pre-Bunking’ Content, Selective ‘Amplifying’

January 18th, 2023 3:18 PM

A World Economic Forum panel at Davos 2023 endorsed censorship and enforced online narratives to fight supposed “disinformation.”

Politico: Embarrassing Journalist Tweets Are Fair Game for Exposure

August 28th, 2019 8:00 AM
If New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger is looking for support from other media outlets for his complaint about embarrassing tweets by journalists for his newspaper being exposed, he can cross Politico off his list. Politico senior media writer Jack Shafer has no sympathy for that complaint as he made clear in his Monday Politico Magazine article, "Why Journalists’ Old Tweets Are Fair Game…

Sulzberger Is Right (And Wrong)

June 25th, 2019 2:51 PM
I never thought I would write this, but the publisher of The New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, is right. Sulzberger wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in response to President Trump's claim that his newspaper committed “treason” by publishing a story about U.S. efforts to compromise Russia's power grid should Moscow again try to meddle in U.S. elections. The Times says it consulted…

The New York Times, CNN and Deliberate Omission in Journalism

June 22nd, 2019 4:00 PM
You can’t make this stuff up. There —  in the pages not of the New York Times but rather the Wall Street Journal — was no less than the publisher of the Times, A.G. Sulzberger, as he blasted the President of the United States. And in the very first paragraph Sulzberger misled readers.

Bizarre: NYT Hits Walmart for Raising Worker Pay, Switches on Earmarks

January 12th, 2018 7:38 PM
When is increasing pay for hourly workers politically suspect? When are earmarks considered pork? When they are encouraged by Donald Trump, at least at the New York Times. Walmart can do no right in the eyes of the liberal paper. Michael Corkery managed to turn even the liberal-pleasing move against the despised company: "Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, waded into the bumpy waters…

New York Times Rips Trump's “Clannishness”

November 16th, 2016 4:41 PM
On the front-page of the November 12 edition of the New York Times, there was a story on how hiring is shaping up in the Trump administration. It noted that three of his children, Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were named to the transition team. “The Trump family, it is clear,” the news story said, “will wield unusual power in the composition of an administration…

NY Times: Left-Wing Defeat Rally in Wisconsin Full of High Hopes and

March 14th, 2011 3:27 PM
The New York Times over the weekend was still insisting the defeat of public-sector unions in Wisconsin actually heralds the revival of the Democratic Party. Saturday’s “Political Memo” teamed tea-party beat reporter Kate Zernike (pictured below) with Monica Davey for "Democrats See Wisconsin Loss As Galvanizing." It came on the heels of Friday’s pro-union coverage, including "In Wisconsin…

NYT: Gov. Walker Gave 'Big Gift' to WI Dems, Yet Unpopular Obama-Care

March 11th, 2011 5:45 PM
Friday’s New York Times off-lead story from Madison by Monica Davey and A.G. Sulzberger, in the aftermath of a defeat for public-sector unions in Wisconsin, spun the win by Republican Gov. Scott Walker as a long-term political victory for Democrats: “Wisconsin Curbs Public Unions, But Democrats Predict Backlash.” The online headline was even more blunt: “In Wisconsin Battle on Unions, State…