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Michael Shear Pins Medals on Obama, a 'Foreign Policy President' for 2012

Michael Shear reboots the anti-war candidate as an international affairs expert: "But of the likely top-tier Republican candidates, none can boast any significant experience beyond the borders of ...

Food Writer Mark Bittman: People Will 'Starve to Death' Under House Budget

Bittman, who also writes food-related news stories for the Times, unleashed a vicious attack on fiscal conservatives on Wednesday's op-ed page: "These supposedly deficit-reducing cuts - they'd ...

NYT Against State Spending Cuts: Michigan's 6-Week Cut in Jobless Benefits 'Miserly,' 'Stringent'

Michael Cooper doesn't approve of Michigan's small cut in unemployment benefits: "Democrats and advocates for the unemployed expressed outrage that such a hard-hit state will become the most ...

Buttering Up CA Budget Director (?) Fighting 'Draconian' Spending Cuts (Now It Makes Sense)

Why is the Times buttering up Ana Matosantos, a relatively obscure political figure in the California state bureaucracy? Maybe because her pull as state budget director may help push up state ...

Times Reporter Gets Another Chance After 'Cringe-Making' Story of Young Gang Rape Victim

After the Times ran what he called a "cringe-making" and "ham-handed article" that some thought blamed an 11-year-old gang rape victim in Texas, Executive Editor Bill Keller ordered up a follow-up ...

'Conservative Landscape' Against Illegal Immigration, But ACLU, SPLC Not Liberal?

The Times finds "a conservative drift in state capitols" against illegal immigration, but fails to label the ACLU or the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Times Blames Data 'Overload,' 'Compassion Fatigue,' and Basketball for Obama's Low Libya Ratings

Ignoring fears of mission creep or questions about exit strategies, reporter Kirk Johnson dug up some novel excuses for the public's resistance to Obama's bombing campaign over Libya: Information ...

Executive Editor Keller Confesses to NYT's 'Culturally Liberal' Outlook, Makes It Sound Appealing

Executive Editor Bill Keller confessed his paper could be rightfully accused of a liberal outlook, though he managed to make this particular brand of urban cultural liberalism sound appealing: ...

Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 'Hounded' with 'Intensity' by Sexist Anti-Abortion Conservatives

Douglas Martin claims sexism on the part of pro-lifers: "The abortion issue, magnified because she was Roman Catholic and a woman, plagued her campaign. Though she opposed the procedure ...

No Lock-Out Coverage for Obama, But Bush's Door Flub Was Front-Page News

In 2005, the Times published a four-panel picture on the front page that extended over two columns showing President Bush trying to exit a press conference in Beijing through a locked door...but ...
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