Sunday Is for Celebrating 'Occupy Wall Street' Lefties at the NY Times
From the editorial page to the news pages to a page of graphic design, the spreading leftist protest known as Occupy Wall Street occupied major swathes of Sunday’s New York Times, and the mood was celebratory – at last the left wing (or as the Times puts it, “populist message”) is off the mat and fighting back.
In the paper’s Sunday Review, journalism professor and veteran leftist Todd…
Krugman on Wall Street Protests: 'There Has in Fact Been Nothing So Fa
It seems New York Times columnist Paul Krugman thinks the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been better behaved than Tea Party attendees.
Read the following paragraph from Monday's "Panic of the Plutocrats" and you be the judge:
Bureaucrat Who Approved Solyndra Loan Resigns, NYTimes Buries News on
Energy Department bureaucrat Jonathan Silver tendered his resignation on October 6, effective the following day. Silver led the Energy Department office that approved the ill-fated $528 million loan to solar energy firm Solyndra, despite concerns from some in the White House that it was a disaster waiting to happen.
Although the development occurred the same day as President Obama reiterated…
NY Times Touts 'Unexpected Success' of Wall Street Protest; Almost Ign
The left-wing, anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street camp-out in Lower Manhattan stretched into its third week, bolstered by an influx of labor unions. The story made the front of Thursday’s New York Times along with a large photo of protestors in Foley Square, “Seeking Energy, Unions Join Wall Street Protest.”
It’s a far cry from the paper’s coverage of the first major Tea Party rally in…
NYT's Thomas Friedman: G.O.P. 'A Danger to Itself and to the Country
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared the G.O.P. “a danger to itself and to the country” in his Wednesday column, “No Christie, No Bargain.”
NYT's Gail Collins: Tea Party Only Latest 'Crazed Right-Wing Upheaval
New York Times columnists Gail Collins and David Brooks talked about “The Long Stagnation” in their weekly online chat posted Wednesday.
When Brooks, the paper’s idea of a conservative columnist, said he wasn’t impressed by the numbers participating in the Occupy Wall Street protest, compared to the figures generated at Tea Party rallies, Collins, the paper’s former editorial page editor,…
Soros-Backed Voting Study Promoted By Soros-Funded Media
Once again the media is completely ignoring the fact that an initiative it’s covering was funded by left-wing financier George Soros. The Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice released a report opposed to new laws needed to combat voter fraud. This story was in turn promoted by Soros-funded progressive news sites that brought it to the national stage.
The Brennan Center for Justice,…
New York Times Spins for Obama in the Heart of Texas
New York Times White House reporters Jackie Calmes and Jennifer Steinhauer were with Obama on the money-raising trail in Texas and did their usual spin job for the partisan, combative president in Wednesday’s “Obama Pitches Jobs Bill And Appeals to Donors.”
President Obama on Tuesday combined fund-raising and campaigning for his jobs bill in the home state of the Republican presidential…
NY Times Claims Illegals 'Vanishing' in Alabama 'Like the Aftermath of
Campbell Robertson cranked the melodrama up to eleven in his New York Times story on Tuesday on the upholding by a federal judge of a tough new immigration law in Alabama: “After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town – Fears Rise Over a Tough Law on Immigrants.” Robertson talked of “the vanishing” and dabbled in a little Creative Writing 101: “In certain neighborhoods the streets are…
NYTimes: Anti-Capitalism Protests a 'Populist Campaign...Clearly Tappe
In Tuesday’s “Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small,” New York Times reporters Erik Eckholm and Timothy Williams bolster the “populist” left-wing activists protesting against greedy bankers (among other items of the standard left-wing wish list) in Lower Manhattan.
While the Times’s coverage of conservative Tea Party rallies pointed out the most extreme and “fringe”…
NY Times Already Predicting Racist Camp Name Will Hurt Rick Perry
Richard Oppel Jr.’s front-page New York Times story on Monday, “Snag for Perry: Offensive Name At Texas Camp,” catches up with a long, thinly sourced Washington Post article on a hunting camp in Texas, leased by Perry’s family, whose name included a racial epithet written on a rock by a camp entrance.
Although the Perry connection is extremely tenuous (the camp’s name predated the Perry…
After Arrests, NY Times Takes Seriously 'Occupy Wall Street' Claims of
Occupy Wall Street, the floating leftist protest in Manhattan that’s camped out in downtown Manhattan in an endless protest against...something, attempted to migrate to Brooklyn this weekend, blocking vehicle traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and resulting in mass arrests.
The New York Times, whose attitude toward Tea Party rallies was invariably hostile, blasted support throughout the weekend…
New York Times Freelancer Arrested In Occupy Wall Street Protest
The folks at the New York Times aren't happy with just reporting the news. They want to be a part of it.
Such is quite apparent given the arrest of Times freelancer Natasha Lennard during an Occupy Wall Street protest Saturday:
No Credit to Perry for Texas Economy, But Lots of Blame for Texas Heal
The New York Times may not give Texas Gov. Rick Perry credit for his state’s booming economy, but it will certainly attack him for his state’s supposedly awful record on providing health care. Emily Ramshaw reported “Few Bright Spots in Perry’s Health Care Record” for Friday’s edition.
Ramshaw, a reporter for the Texas Tribune, a left-leaning nonprofit news organization based in Austin that…
