NYT Editor: 'I Actually Don’t Think' We 'Reflect a Liberal Point of

August 20th, 2013 3:16 PM
As NewsBusters previously reported, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan admitted Sunday that her paper has a liberal bias. In an interview with the New Republic Tuesday, editor Jill Abramson disagreed saying, "I actually don’t think it does":

Sorry, NYTimes, It's the Private Sector, Not Obama, Which Has Successf

August 20th, 2013 11:11 AM
The Gray Lady on Sunday packed a tremendous amount of bias into the opening sentence of their “Most of U.S. Is Wired, but Millions Aren’t Plugged In.”  Brace yourself - here goes:

New York Times Public Editor Admits Paper Has Liberal Bias

August 18th, 2013 4:26 PM
NewsBusters readers certainly don't have to be told that the New York Times has a liberal bias, but when the paper's public editor admits it on national television, one has to take notice. With that in mind, grab some peanuts, popcorn, or Cracker Jacks and take a gander at Margaret Sullivan on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday marvelously telling us what we already know (video follows with…

Media Mostly Yawns As More Fast and Furious Guns Are Recovered From 'C

August 17th, 2013 12:00 PM
On Wednesday at CBSnews.com, Sharyl Attkisson reported that "Three more weapons from Fast and Furious have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico." A Google News search at 10 a.m. on ["Fast and Furious" guns] (typed exactly as indicated between brackets, past 7 days, sorted by date, with duplicates) returned 26 relevant items. Very few (to be noted later) are from establishment press outlets.

Krugman's Selective Outrage: Goes After Paul and Cantor on 'Deficit

August 16th, 2013 3:19 PM
One thing which is arguably worse for one's health than Obamacare is the act of reading a Paul Krugman column at the New York Times. In his latest equivalent of a DNC press release on Thursday published in Friday's print edition, Krugman lambasted GOP Senator Rand Paul and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as "politicians who gleefully add to the misinformation" the general public allegedly…

New York Times Reporter Sneers At Limbaugh's 'Usual Level of Factual A

August 16th, 2013 9:36 AM
New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore knows he has one goal in his professional life: not to help Rush Limbaugh’s radio show. After a tough front-page story Wednesday (with Amy Chozick) on the financial mess that is Bill Clinton’s foundation, Confessore appeared briefly that night on MSNBC’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. O’Donnell warned that Limbaugh loved the Times article and…

WSJ Omits Jackson Jr.'s Party Affiliation; NYTimes Leads With It, But

August 15th, 2013 3:45 PM
Of the East Coast's most prestigious papers -- The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post -- only the Journal today failed to note Jesse Jackson Junior's Democratic Party affiliation, with staff writer Devlin Barrett failing to mention that fact in his 11-paragraph story. For their part, Washington Post staffers Ann Marimow and Rachel Weiner did mention Jackson is a…

NYT Fawns over 'Charismatic,' 'Media-Savvy Star' Booker, Ignores Mayor

August 14th, 2013 3:44 PM
The New York Times’s Raymond Hernandez delivered New Jersey primary election results with a spin Tuesday night, offering a mushy profile of Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the state’s landslide winner in the Democratic primary for United States Senate. The report’s lead lauded Booker as a “charismatic and media-savvy star in the Democratic Party,” noting the mayor’s efforts to “remake a notoriously…

ObamaCare Suffers Another Setback, ABC and NBC Ignore

August 14th, 2013 12:38 PM
On Tuesday morning, The New York Times reported the Obama administration had delayed a “significant consumer protection” in the Affordable Care Act, a provision that limits how much individuals and families can pay out-of-pocket for health care, until 2015. Under ObamaCare, the limit on out-of-pocket health care costs was set at $6,350 per year for individuals and $12,700 per year for families…

NYT Columnist: Pro-Life Legislation Promotes Violence Against Women

August 13th, 2013 3:52 PM
While NewsBusters really doesn’t target op-eds, especially ones that are printed in the New York Times, egregiously absurd arguments merit exposure and ridicule. Enter Frank Bruni's August 14 column, wherein the Times scribe discussed how our culture facilitates the objectification of women.  Curiously, Bruni buried longtime Democratic politician Bob Filner, who saw women as objects he could…

Federal Judge Vindicates Cardinal Dolan, Hysterical New York Times Goe

August 12th, 2013 6:51 AM
A federal judge has ruled that the creation of a cemetery trust fund in 2007 by then-Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee – the subject of a lot of hysterical coverage a month ago in the New York Times – was a completely legitimate and warranted financial transfer. "Because these funds were held in trust as prescribed by canon law, they were independent of the general…

Not Establishment Press News: Reid Says Obamacare Just a Step Toward S

August 11th, 2013 11:23 PM
Though many of us have known a fundamental truth about Obamacare for several years, the fact that Harry Reid admitted to the truth is important. How important? So important that despite plenty of bloggers and other new media outlets taking note of it, the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post (the latest stories here and here are from before Reid made his admission on Friday…

CNN Discusses Alec Baldwin Getting MSNBC Show Without Mentioning Recen

August 11th, 2013 5:52 PM
CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday discussed Alec Baldwin supposedly getting his own show on MSNBC. For some reason, guest host Brian Stelter of the New York Times as well as his panelists chose not to mention Baldwin's recent homophobic rant despite it occurring just six weeks ago (video follows with transcript and commentary):

NYT’s Stelter Raises Grade He Gives CNN's Zucker Two Days Before Hos

August 10th, 2013 10:25 AM
On April 25, New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter gave new CNN boss Jeff Zucker a “C” for his performance turning the ailing network around. On August 9, two days before he is hosting CNN’s Reliable Sources, Stelter raised Zucker’s grade: