NYTimes: Boehner Issued 'Unprecedented' Refusal of Obama's Request for
September 1st, 2011 1:41 PM
"Speaker Says No, So Obama Delays Speech" is how The New York Times's September 1 front page headline spun the short squabble over the timing of President Obama's upcoming speech before Congress on his job creation plan. "Spat Over Which Day to Address Economy," added a subheadline.
The online version opted for a headline that went lighter on the loaded language: "Obama Moves Jobs Speech…
NYTimes Downplays Rep. Carson's Smear, Suggests Rep. West May Leave CB
September 1st, 2011 12:51 PM
Rep. Allen West (Fla.), the only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), is considering leaving the CBC after a fellow member of the caucus practically compared Tea Party members to lynch mob members.
Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) recently told a gathering in Miami that Tea Party members "would love to see us as second-class citizens" and to see blacks "hanging on a tree."…
Journalists Warned in NYT: Beware of Conservative Bloggers Targeting Y
August 31st, 2011 7:53 PM
New York Times media reporter Jeremy Peters issued a warning to young journalists on Wednesday’s front page, “Covering 2012, Youths on the Bus”: There are partisan bloggers out there who are out to embarrass mainstream journalists. Ironic, given that mainstream journalists have been doing just that to conservative politicians for decades.
A group of five fresh-faced reporters from National…
NY Times Suggests 'Unsettling' For GOP To Suggest Paying for Disaster
August 31st, 2011 3:23 PM
In his Wednesday report on federal disaster aid in a time of vast national debt, New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse treated liberal Democrats as the epitome of Washington wisdom and moderation: “Emphasis on Federal Austerity Changes Dynamics of Disaster Relief.”
While self-described socialist Bernie Sanders was only termed an “independent,” Hulse managed to put an ideological…
NYT: Buffett's 'Tax Me Please' Philosophy Welcomed in Europe; a Cure f
August 31st, 2011 3:12 PM
The New York Times is still stirring up news based on an op-ed published in the paper two weeks by billionaire Warren “Tax Me More” Buffett, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” pleading for the government to raise the effective tax rate on wealthy investors like him.
Buffett’s op-ed went viral among liberals online, and has spread to Europe, according to Wednesday’s Business section story from…
NY Times Environment Reporter Tells China and India: Just Sweat It Out
August 31st, 2011 9:39 AM
Elisabeth Rosenthal, an environment reporter who has blamed about every problem under the sun on global warming, called on China and India to turn off their air conditioners to save the planet in the Sunday Review – “Oh, to Be Warm In Summer’s Heat.”
Rosenthal's personal temperature preferences (she complains of shivering in air-conditoning crazy Hong Kong) are apparently to be locked in as…
NYT Shocker: 'MSNBC Is Less a News Provider Than a Carousel of Liberal
August 30th, 2011 10:55 PM
When one of the nation's most liberal papers thinks the nation's most liberal cable news network is too biased, the owners of said network should sit up and take notice.
Consider what Alessandra Stanley wrote about MSNBC at the New York Times Tuesday:
NY Times Suddenly OK With Warring President: Is Obama Intervention in
August 30th, 2011 3:49 PM
Is Syria next on Obama’s intervention list? New York Times reporters Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers speculate in Monday’s “U.S. Tactics in Libya May Be a Model for Other Efforts.”
The text box works in a typical crack at Bush administration foreign policy: “Using force when justified but not going it alone.” The implication, common in the pages of the Times, is that Bush somehow went it…
Bernie Goldberg: I Wish NYT Was Concerned With Religion and Politics W
August 30th, 2011 1:35 PM
As NewsBusters reported last week, New York Times outgoing executive editor Bill Keller believes presidential candidates should be questioned about their religious beliefs.
On Monday's "The O'Reilly Factor," media critic Bernie Goldberg marvelously said, "I wish that he and the New York Times was as concerned about religion and politics during the last campaign when it pertained to Barack…
NYT Editor Finds Issa's Retraction Demands 'Troubling' - But Hit Piece
August 30th, 2011 10:44 AM
The New York Times so far has issued three corrections to reporter Eric Lichtblau’s August 15 front-page hit piece on conservative California Rep. Darrell Issa of California, but the paper won't consider a retraction because, as the Times's Washingtion bureau chief says: “The article was carefully reported, written, and edited, and we stand by the story both in its broad thrust and, except as…
LiveAction.org Calls Out NYT's Charles Blow For Now-Corrected Obvious
August 29th, 2011 9:31 PM
In his Friday column ("Failing Forward"), published in Saturday's print edition, the New York Times's Charles Blow really blew it in attempting to relay an abortion-related statistic from the abortion-supportive Alan Guttmacher Institute. Blow wrote (shown here) that "the unintended pregnancy rate has jumped 50 percent since 1994."
The Times has since corrected the column to reflect what the…
Warren Buffett's Company Hasn't Paid All Taxes Owed In Years, Media Mu
August 29th, 2011 5:28 PM
Two weeks ago, when billionaire Warren Buffett called for higher taxes on rich people like him, the liberal media predictably gushed and fawned.
Yet when Americans for Limited Government revealed last week that Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway has been in an almost decade-long dispute with the IRS over how much taxes it owes, these same press members couldn't care less:
Irene and Climate Change: Liberal Media Won't Let a Good Crisis Go to
August 29th, 2011 5:24 PM
In the days leading up to Hurricane Irene's march through the Northeast, journalists repeatedly suggested that the storm was yet more evidence of climate change.
"The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse because of human-induced climate change?" asked…
NY Times Asks: Gee, Why Is 'Civil Rights Activist' Al Sharpton So Quie
August 29th, 2011 3:31 PM
The New York Times, once again, feigned ignorance regarding “civil rights activist” Al Sharpton’s racially incendiary past. The front of the New York section on Saturday, N.R. Kleinfield questioned why “the provocative civil rights activist” has been silent on the case of International Monetary Fund bigwig Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of raping a hotel maid in Manhattan. (The charges were…