NYT's James McKinley, Texas Cheerleader for Democrat Taking on 'Rightw
May 3rd, 2010 4:33 PM
The November outlook for Democratic candidates may be bleak, but New York Times reporter James McKinley Jr. shook his pom-poms for Bill White, former mayor of Houston and a Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, against "rightwing politician" Gov. Rick Perry, in Sunday's label-soaked "Texas Democrat Is Striving to Make His Name Known."On the same day Newsweek magazine anointed Gov. Rick…
Poll Finds CNN and Fox Far More Trusted Than All Other News Outlets Co
May 3rd, 2010 10:28 AM
People on the Left squawked in January when a poll was released finding Americans felt the Fox News Network was BY FAR the most trusted name in news.On Sunday, the results of a new online survey were released by a liberal entity somewhat confirming the Public Policy Polling data NewsBusters shared with you earlier in the year.According to the "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair poll, when asked the question…
NYT Writer on GM 'Repayment': Company Is Guilty of 'Employing Spin and
May 2nd, 2010 6:41 PM
Well, it's not the same as saying "the company lied through its teeth and the government let them," but it's as close to that as you'll probably ever see in an establishment media outlet like the New York Times. In a column that apparently appeared on the web on Friday while appearing Sunday's print edition, Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor at the Times, ripped into…
Critics Saluted Media Slams on Bush During Katrina Crisis; What About
May 1st, 2010 11:11 AM
The last time a major disaster threatened the U.S. Gulf Coast, journalists dropped any pretense of objectivity and openly scorned what they saw as the ineffective response of the Bush administration to Hurricane Katrina. And top media writers found it just wonderful that the press was taking a side, with New York Times’ critic Alessandra Stanley saluting “a rare sense of righteous indignation by…
New York Times Criticizes Obama's Slow Response To Gulf Oil Spill
May 1st, 2010 10:18 AM
On Friday, NewsBusters asked when media would start pointing fingers at the Obama administration for its slow response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.On Saturday, we got our answer as the New York Times published an editorial pointing a finger straight at Barack Obama.This came comically less than 24 hours after Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote about how absurd such an accusation would…
Again, N.Y. Times Highlights 'Dozens' of Pro-Amnesty Protesters -- But
April 30th, 2010 5:42 PM
One day after the New York Times hailed a grand total of four protesters of immigration enforcement, another tiny left-wing protest of “dozens” against Arizona’s new immigration law made The New York Times on Friday -- outside a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Reporters Monica Davey and Michael S. Schmidt never used a liberal label for the protesters, even as they cited organizer Leone Jose…
Alec Baldwin, NYT Editor Take Turns Mocking 'Caribou Barbie' Sarah Pal
April 30th, 2010 2:45 PM
Actor Alec Baldwin and New York Times assistant managing editor Richard Berke went back and forth mocking Sarah Palin during a discussion at Harvard University on Wednesday.Baldwin dubbed Palin "caribou barbie," while Berke rehashed the former Alaska Governor's interview with Katie Couric during the 2008 campaign -- perhaps the left's favorite Palin-basing talking point. Baldwin went on to…
Paul Krugman's Sarcastic Headline: 'The Oil Spill Is Obama's Fault
April 30th, 2010 9:46 AM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman Friday posted a sarcastic piece at his "Conscience of a Liberal" blog with the headline, "The Oil Spill Is Obama's Fault.""No, I haven’t lost my mind — that’s not what I believe," he wrote."But you know that’s what the talk-show hosts will be saying soon, if they haven’t already started."He continued:
NYT's Egan: 'Crackpot' Republicans Behind 'Lunatic Magnet' Arizona's
April 29th, 2010 4:56 PM
Timothy Egan, liberal New York Times reporter turned liberal nytimes.com columnist, is the latest former reporter to weigh in on Arizona's anti-immigration law, "Desert Derangement Syndrome."It would be hard to top former NYT Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse's hysterical conflation in her Tuesday print-edition column of Arizona's stricter enforcement of immigration laws with a Nazi police…
NY Times Suggests Modern Conservative Movement Lacks Intellectual Soph
April 28th, 2010 4:39 PM
So what happens when you put the likes of David Frum, Bruce Bartlett and now apparently Jim Manzi - pseudo-conservatives with a penchant for criticizing Republicans and other conservatives all in the same place? You have the makings of a New York Times hit piece on conservatism. In the April 27 issue of the Times, a story in its Style section of all places by Patricia Cohen, singled out and…
Influential NYT Editor Sam Tanenhaus: 'Extremist,' Know-Nothing Tea Pa
April 28th, 2010 12:09 PM
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of “The New York Times Book Review” and “Week in Review,” and the author of the book, “The Death of Conservatism,” went on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC talk show Monday night to discuss her being featured in a fundraising letter from the right-wing John Birch Society. But the friendly chat soon veered off into a comparison of the nationalist John Birch Society to the Tea Party…
NPR Notes Backlash When Fox News Is Called 'Voracious' and MSNBC Only
April 28th, 2010 7:40 AM
One laudable practice at National Public Radio is reading listener reactions on the air. On Monday night's All Things Considered newscast, they noted several listeners objected to NPR media reporter David Folkenflik stating Fox offered "voracious conservatism" while MSNBC merely offered "leftward tilt." Anchor Michelle Norris relayed: The Pew Research Center last year found that public trust in…
Bozell Column: Arizona's 21-Bottle Salute
April 27th, 2010 11:01 PM
Arizona officially joined the South this month. In other words, it became for our Northeastern media elitists a state dominated by backward, slack-jawed racists. The Associated Press marked the passage of a tough new anti-immigration law with the leftist version of a Welcome Wagon: “The furor over Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew Monday as opponents used refried beans to…
NYT Former Reporter Greenhouse Fires on Arizona's 'Police State,' Mak
April 27th, 2010 11:31 AM
Linda Greenhouse, the New York Times's former Supreme Court reporter, now writes a twice-monthly column for nytimes.com. But the paper's editors must have found her latest rant on Arizona's tough new immigration law particularly powerful, because it made it into Tuesday's print edition: "Breathing While Undocumented." Greenhouse, who caused controversy while still a Times reporter when she made…