NY Times, WashPost Try to Lead With Happy Pro-Obama Spin on 7.9 Percen

Tim Graham
November 3rd, 2012 8:18 PM
The nation’s leading newspapers really didn’t want to highlight the unemployment rate going back up to 7.9 percent. On the front of Saturday’s Washington Post, the headline was “Report shows Oct. job growth.” The New York Times wouldn’t even put the news on the front page. Up front was a tiny headline, “Job Growth Tops Estimates.” The Times shifted the story to B-1 with the headline “U.S.…
 

Romney Hit on Obama Seen as Accurate But False by NYT; 'Fake But Accur

Clay Waters
April 12th, 2012 2:38 PM
When it came to defending CBS's "60 Minutes" using phony memos to lie about George W. Bush's Vietnam War record, the media standard was "Fake But Accurate," at least according to a suggestion preserved in a September 15, 2004 New York Times headline, "Memos on Bush Are Fake But Accurate, Typist Says." But when it comes to accurate accusations made by Mitt Romney against Obama's economic record…
 

NYT's Rampell Wonders Where the Left-Wing Outrage Is Among Unemployed

Clay Waters
July 11th, 2011 3:59 PM
With 14 million Americans out of work, New York Times economics reporter Catherine Rampell is wondering where the left-wing mobs are in the front-page story for Sunday Business, “Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible.” The text box imagined a better time: “In the 1930s, Americans did not endure unemployment so quietly.” (Back on June 18, Rampell agonized over how “one little word” was…
 

NY Times Laments How 'One Little Word' Is Depriving Arizona Jobless of

Clay Waters
June 21st, 2011 8:51 AM
New York Times economics reporter Catherine Rampell’s front-page story Saturday on Arizona imposing limits on federal unemployment benefits it provides, “For  Want of a Word, Arizona’s Jobless Lose Checks,” is the latest Times story to fiercely defend unimpeded spending on unemployment benefits. Previously this year, Times reporters had questioned  “deepest and most far-reaching” cuts in…
 

Wealthy Americans Don't Actually Earn Their Money, Merely 'Receive' or

Clay Waters
March 31st, 2011 3:33 PM
A Wednesday post by economics reporter Catherine Rampell on the paper's Economix blog hits hard at the common liberal target of "extreme" and "stark" income inequality in America: “Inequality Is Most Extreme in Wealth, Not Income.” Rampell’s word choice sent the message (perhaps unconsciously) that income isn’t earned through hard work or talent but is instead passively and undeservedly “…
 

Glaring Error: NYT Reports That 'Retail Jobs Fell 4.9 Percent ... From

Tom Blumer
October 7th, 2010 11:31 AM
Two New York Times reporters were out to lunch, while the Old Gray Lady's layers of fact-checkers were apparently asleep at the switch. In an item which contained a number of oddities, Times reporters Stephanie Clifford and Catherine Rampell wrote the following: Over all, full-time work in retail is slightly down. The number of people employed in the retail sector in August fell 4.9 percent, to…