Glaring Error: NYT Reports That 'Retail Jobs Fell 4.9 Percent ... From
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…
ABC, CBS, NBC All Skip the Word 'Obama' or Any Evaluation of His Team
Foiled Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday, which was noted by all Big Three networks. But a look at the transcripts shows that ABC, CBS, and NBC all have one obvious thing in common: words like "Obama" are never uttered. (The same happened in The New York Times and The Washington Post.)Can anyone imagine if Shahzad attempted this in 2008, the word "…
NYT Shocked People Would Read Nobel Economist Hayek, Ponders Strange C
Kate Zernike, the New York Times's Tea Party reporter, can add another scalp to her collection. This one belongs to ‘obscure' Nobel Prize-winning economist Freidrich Hayek and his wacky theories like "rule of law.""Once-obscure texts by dead writers" such as Hayek, wrote Zernike, are full of "long-dormant ideas" and strange arguments like Hayek's claim, as summarized by Zernike, that "government…
As Newspapers Inhale Cash From Medical Marijuana Ads, NY Times Skips U
Medical marijuana is an evergreen (pardon the pun) topic for alternative weeklies, along with the return of vinyl records. The recent loosening of federal regulations under Obama have pushed the issue into the mainstream, with one surprising side effect -- a huge boost in ad sales for alternative papers and even some mainstream dailies, as medical marijuana businesses like "Happy Buddah" and "…
Times Watch: Justice Kagan's Ascent Proved Once Again the Liberal Bias
As Justice Elena Kagan takes the bench on her first "first Monday in October," the new Special Report by Clay Waters of TimesWatch strongly underlines the media favoritism offered by the New York Times. The report, Supremely Slanted, offers a pile of bias tidbits like these: Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg gushed over Kagan on a June 28 podcast at nytimes.com, on the eve of the hearings, in…
NY Times Finds 'Tens of Thousands' at Lefty Rally in D.C., but Avoided
On Sunday, New York Times labor-beat reporter Steven Greenhouse attended the left-wing “One Nation” rally for “Liberal Groups rally in Washington, Offering a Challenge to the Tea Party.” Unusually, Greenhouse led off with a specific (and rather generous) crowd estimate of “tens of thousands,” something the paper was unwilling to do for larger rallies held in D.C. by the Tea Party and talk show…
NYT's Blow: Republicans Better Informed Than Blacks and Hispanics
Here's something you wouldn't expect to read in the New York Times: Republicans are better informed about political issues than blacks, Hispanics, and young people."Big-city liberals and their blogging buddies love to paint Tea Partiers as yokels with incoherent candidates and language-mauling signs," began Charles Blow's column Saturday."The unpleasant fact that these liberals rarely mention,…
NYT's Brooks Says Nice Things About Whitman Despite HousekeeperGate
As the Democrat-loving media pile on California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman over the illegal alien status of her former housekeeper, a strange thing happened at the New York Times Friday: columnist David Brooks published a positive piece about the former eBay CEO.In fact, "The Austerity Caucus" never mentioned this new scandal that has most mainstream media members doing…
Special Report: Supremely Slanted - How the NY Times Pounds Conservati
As liberal Justice Elena Kagan takes her place on the Supreme Court next week, she could thank The New York Times for making her confirmation process smoother. Ever since Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork and he was rejected by the Senate in 1987 for his views and not his character or qualifications, confirmation battles for liberals have become less like judicial seminars and more like…
Thomas Friedman Bashes Tea Party, Wants Better More 'Centrist' Movemen
New York Times correspondent Thomas Friedman is clearly unhappy about the Tea Party, so much so that he considers the movement "not that important."Instead, he envisions another group, "which stretches from centrist Republicans to independents right through to centrist Democrats," sitting silently out there in America waiting for the right leader to emerge.So wrote Friedman Wednesday in his "The…
NY Times Op-Ed Writer's Muddled Logic: Money Not Paid in Taxes a Gift
It’s a really skewed view of the relationship between citizens and the government – that anything you earn and get to keep by not paying to the government in the form of taxes is a show of benevolence from the government. But that’s apparently the view of Richard H. Thaler, professor at the University of Chicago. In the Sept. 26 New York Times, Thaler, declares that tax cuts are a gift in his…
Scooped: British Publication Tells Us Uncle Sam Having Problems Unload
You would think someone in the U.S. establishment press would be following Uncle Sam's progress or lack thereof in getting out from under its investment in Citigroup, especially since the government promised that it would be fully divested from the bank holding company by the end of this year. From all appearances, you would be wrong. It looks like the government may not be able to keep that year…
Dowd: 'Christine O’Donnell Better Hope They Don’t Bring Back Witch
As we get closer to the midterm elections, and liberals in the media foresee the Democrat destruction about to commence, the scorn being tossed at conservatives and Tea Party members is reaching a fevered pitch.New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is a perfect example.Her "Slouching Toward Washington" piece published Sunday is nothing but a personal attack on those possibly interfering with her…
Times Watch: Obama, Bringing His Hope to the Paris Slums
His poll numbers over here may be falling, but the New York Times found a place where Barack Obama is still very popular and bringing the hope: The slum-like “banlieues”outside Paris dominated by Muslim immigrants, in Thursday’s “Feeling Slighted by France, And Respected by the U.S.” by France-based reporter Scott Sayare.The residents of this poor, multiracial Paris suburb say they have been…
