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When It Comes To Bashing Murdoch, Joe Nocera Knows Nothing, Says Taranto

Joe Nocera devotes two columns to piling on Rupert Murdoch and his American media properties: "The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified....Rupert Murdoch, despite giving us Homer Simpson, ...

James Traub on John Kerry, Latest 'Decent, Serious, Honorable' Dem Destroyed by 'Republican Attack Machine'

Magazine writer James Traub on poor, mistreated John Kerry: "The last time most Americans saw John Kerry, he was tying himself in knots trying to rebut the charge that he was for the war in Iraq ...

Days Later, Times Plants Bachmann 'Gay Therapy' Story on Sunday Front Page

Sheryl Gay Stolberg traveled to Minnesota to pile on the Bachmanns days after a hidden-camera investigation ran on two networks: "Yet her position has also become a distraction for her campaign, ...

Times Critics Vindicated: Public Editor Dresses Down Dubious Article Critical of Natural Gas Industry

Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane concluded of Ian Urbina's controversial front-page Sunday story on natural gas: "...such a pointed article needed more convincing substantiation, more space for ...

Paul Krugman Diagnoses the G.O.P.'s Mental Health

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explains it all: "A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. 'Has the G.O.P. gone insane?' they ask. Why, yes, it has."

Former SCOTUS Reporter Greenhouse Praises Kagan, Hits 'Mean-Spirited...Immature' Justice Scalia

Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse crowns new liberal Justice Elena Kagan winner of the Supreme Court's just-concluded term, a "distinctive voice" who still "has light years to go ...

Former Reporter Egan Compares Violent Seattle 'Anarchists' to Budget-Cutting GOP

Former reporter Timothy Egan sleazily likens Republican "anarchists" in Congress to the violent leftist mob who rampaged through Seattle in 1999: "The loafers may want to retreat to their wine ...

Since When? Budget-Cutting Obama 'Wants Deficit Reduction'; G.O.P. Has 'Problematic' Budget Philosophy

Reporter Jackie Calmes hits conservatives for an outdated and "problematic" "starve-the-beast" governing philosophy, and wonders why Obama isn't getting credit for his abrupt, politically ...

One of Obama's Emotional Arguments for Obama-Care Proven Wrong in NYT Staffer's New Book

"The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that President Obama, in his campaign to overhaul American health care, mischaracterized a central ...

Editor Bill Keller Wishes His Staff Would Stop Writing All These Books

Bill Keller hints his news staff is spending too much time writing books about their pets and concludes: "We indulge our writers because we want the talent happy, and because a little of their ...
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