NYTimes' Krugman Talking Down the Economy Again
Fresh from his performance on ABC’s This Week this past Sunday, the New York Times economic writer, Paul Krugman, has a new op-ed today filled with more delicious economic distortions: But although many people say "four million jobs in the last two years" reverently, as if it were an amazing achievement, it's actually a rise of about 3 percent, not much faster than the growth of the working-age…
Good News In The Real World Becomes Bad News in the New York Times
Jack Kelly has a great story at Jewish World Review about how good news in the real world becomes bad news in the New York Times. The basics of the story go something like this: The Army has greatly improved the body armor soldiers are wearing over the past 15 years. It's lighter and tougher. There are some types of ammunition that can penetrate it, but no evidence that the "insurgents" are…
NYTimes Again Demonstrates Its Anti-War Bias
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller today tried her best to write an article without mentioning anti-war heroine Cindy Sheehan, as well as without impugning the president. Unfortunately, she failed.In an article about the president’s speech to thousands of National Guard members and their families in Nampa, Idaho, it only took two paragraphs before the story turned from Mr. Bush’s vision…
NYT Sees Kyoto Failure Everywhere
New York Times reporter Anthony DePalma today perfectly demonstrates the mantra of much of the modern press: Never pass up an opportunity to bash Bush.In his front-page story entitled “9 States in Plan to Cut Emissions by Power Plants,” Mr. DePalma adroitly accomplishes this credo in paragraph two:The cooperative action, the first of its kind in the nation, came after the Bush administration…
Blame Bush For Merck's Vioxx
First it was nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. Then he was AWOL. After that came Plamegate. So, what pray tell will be the next left-wing attack on our president? Potentially, the manner in which the Vioxx story was covered this weekend by the New York Times gives us some clues. To begin with, a front-page article Saturday by Alex Berenson reported the surprise verdict that gave the…
