Alexander Burns
NY Times Finds GOP Racism, McCarthyism, Even Nazism Afoot in 3 States
August 18th, 2022 11:25 AM
What do Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia have in common? Dangerous conservative trends, according to the New York Times. The paper saw the dark cloud of McCarthyism still hanging over Wisconsin: "Much of the state remains rural and conservative -- McCarthy and Trump country." Contributing writer Robert Draper in the Sunday Magazine wrote thousands of words on…
NYT's COVID Criteria: No Blame for Biden vs. Trump’s 'Ruinous Verdict'
July 24th, 2022 9:05 PM
The last two presidents have each caught the coronavirus while in office, Donald Trump in early October 2020, before vaccinations were available, and Joe Biden last week. But the contrast in the tone of the New York Times coverage of those two events couldn’t be more different. In “Biden Learns to Live With the Risks of the Coronavirus” by Michael Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, there…
NY Times: 'Punitive' Pro-Life States 'Risk Losing Their Economic Edge'
July 15th, 2022 5:32 AM
On the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times, national political reporter Alexander Burns warned that newly triggered abortion restrictions (i.e., "the rollback of women's rights") threatened to push young talent out of conservative red states in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, as those smart, talented pro-choicers head for abortion-welcoming…
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CBS Fawns Over Book From NYT Reporters, Skirts Dirt on Democrats
May 2nd, 2022 5:16 PM
As part of their weeks-long media tour promoting their book This Shall Not Pass, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns joined Monday’s CBS Mornings and, as predicted, almost the entirety of their eight-minute-plus segment was devoted to trashing the Republican Party and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while all but ignoring attempts by the authors to…
NY Times: How Can Anyone Vote GOP After Biden’s Amazing Success?
July 5th, 2021 8:49 PM
The New York Times off-lead story Monday by national political correspondent Alexander Burns was headlined, “U.S. Surges, But Politics Hold Firm – Partisanship Immune to Signs of Recovery.” But it may as well have been titled, “What Is Wrong With You Trump Voters?” Flummoxed by Biden’s stubbornly so-so approval rating and continuing GOP strength, as shown in the 2020 elections,…
NYT Skips Dem Crime Crisis: 'Opportunity to Beat GOP on Law-and-Order'
June 25th, 2021 7:30 PM
On the New York Times front page Thursday, national political correspondent Alexander Burns spun frantically for the Democrats in his news analysis under a “have your cake and eat it too” headline, “Why Choose? Democrats Seek To Fund and Reform the Police.” The text box skipped the desperation and division of the current Democratic Party on crime and police issues and skipped…
Tasteless NYT Gloats: Trump COVID Diagnosis Confirms Dem Criticism
October 3rd, 2020 3:31 PM
After Friday morning’s news that President Trump and the First Lady had tested positive for COVID-19, The New York Times could hardly suppress an undercurrent of gloating, bolstered by commentary from Democratic activists. Reporter Alexander Burns made the off-lead story slot on Saturday morning: “Now There’s No Spinning Away Pandemic’s Toll.” He wrote: "For Mr. Biden and…
NY Times or Angry Internet Troll? Hits ‘Facts Optional’ GOP Convention
August 27th, 2020 5:50 PM
On the first night of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times immediately tried to poison the well for the Republicans launch of the 2020 campaign, under the headline “Nominating Trump, Republicans Rewrite His Record.” Meanwhile, the paper helped Biden rewrite his own legislative history regarding the 1994 crime bill.
Nasty NYT: Racist McCloskeys 'Threatened Peaceful Protesters’?
August 25th, 2020 6:00 PM
The Republican National Convention launched last night, and the New York Times launched its contemptuous coverage with Trump-hostile White House correspondent Peter Baker setting the table on Monday’s front page: “As Woes Grow, President Aims To Shift Story.” Baker told a whopper about the now famous McCloskey couple of St. Louis, supposedly “brandishing guns at peaceful Black Lives…
NY Times Front Page Pushes Biden to ‘Bolder Agenda’ (i.e. Socialism)
May 19th, 2020 8:44 AM
The New York Times has not hesitated to use the coronavirus crisis to push its left-wing policy priorities. Reporter Alexander Burns devoted 2,000 words on the front page of Monday’s edition to “Biden Pursues Ideas to Match Scale of Crisis -- Left Sees an Opening for a Bolder Agenda." "The former vice president and other Democratic leaders are racing to assemble a new governing agenda that meets…
Will Bloomberg News Ignore NYT Story on Bloomberg’s Massive Spending?
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February 18th, 2020 8:55 AM
No wonder liberal billionaire 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg does not want his own news outlet investigating him. They might have to do journalism and risk exposing where his money has been going all these years. The liberal New York Times chose to do some actual journalism by digging up records on Bloomberg’s enormous spending between 1977 and 2019 in a report Feb. 15. Bloomberg spent "at…
Out of Whack: NYTimes Sees ‘Moderates’ in Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Kerry?
November 27th, 2019 8:35 AM
More proof that the New York Times ideological scale is way out of calibration appeared in Monday’s edition, first in reporter Alexander Burns’ long profile of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s entry into the Democratic political field: “Bloomberg Hits Democratic Presidential Race Running to the Center.” The online subhead underlined Bloomberg’s supposed centrist appeal: “Mr.…
NYTimes’s Candidate Questions: Is It ‘Ideal’ for Anyone to Own Guns?
June 19th, 2019 2:14 PM
The New York Times posed a set of dominantly left-wing questions to 22 Democratic presidential candidates and invited them to answer on video. Only Joe Biden declined to participate. There was a distinct, undeniable hard-left lean to the questions. Of the set of 18 questions, fully half (nine) were left-leaning, and only one classified as right-leaning. One lliberal question: "Does anyone deserve…
NY Times Calls on Anita Hill Once Again to Bash Joe Biden on Page One
April 27th, 2019 1:50 PM
Former senator and vice president Joe Biden is officially running for president, and once again went to Anita Hill in its front-page story Friday, “Biden’s ‘Regret’ For Hill’s Pain Fails to Soothe.” Hill is seen by the press as a victim of both Clarence Thomas and the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee. She made regular appearances in the paper during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, and…
