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Reporter Says GOP Misleads on Public Option Consequences - But Paul Krugman Agrees with Them

Jackie Calmes tries to calm conservative fears that the "public option" on health care would drive private health insurers out of business. Yet Times liberal columnist Paul Krugman would welcome ...

Influential Times Editor Calls Anti-Tax Protesters "Tea-Baggers"

Sam Tanenhaus, Times Week in Review and Book Review editor and author of "The Death of Conservatism," uses the left-wing vulgarism "tea-baggers" to describe anti-tax protesters: "Even today the ...

Williams Prompts Carter: What, In 'Your Wiring,' Has 'Set You Apart' from Other Presidents?

Just over two weeks after NBC's Brian Williams pushed former President Jimmy Carter's racism charge, Williams devoted more than two minutes of Thursday's NBC Nightly News to marking Carter's 85th ...

Networks Allow Letterman to Play 'Victim'

Coverage shows bias in favor of liberals behaving badly.

Chris Matthews: Joe Wilson 'Wrong' But Would Be 'Absurd' for Alan Grayson to Apologize

It would be "absurd" for Florida Rep. Alan Grayson (D) to apologize for insisting recently that Republicans stand behind a health care "holocaust," MSNBC's Chris Matthews argued on Thursday's ...

ABC's Claire Shipman Tosses Softballs to Jimmy Carter at 'Incredible' Presidential Library

ABC's Claire Shipman on Thursday fawned over Jimmy Carter, celebrated his 85th birthday and the "incredible" presidential library bearing his name. Offering few tough questions, the Good Morning ...

Print Edition Ignores Rep. Grayson's GOP Bashing, Holocaust Reference

The Times moralized over Rep. Joe Wilson's "disrespectful" outburst ("You lie!") during Obama's health care address to Congress. But when a Democrat said the GOP's health care plan was for ...

Another Nudge Toward Health Care Rationing: Questioning "Costly Valve for the Frail"

The next big thing in heart surgery are replacement valves, which can be implanted without open-heart surgery. But instead of evaluating this as a straightforward boon to humanity, the Times ...

NY Times Print Edition Ignores Rep. Grayson's GOP Bashing, Holocaust Reference

The NY Times moralized over Rep. Joe Wilson's "disrespectful" outburst ("You lie!") during Obama's health care address to Congress. But when a Democrat said the GOP's health care plan was for ...

NYT's Treatment of Muslim Cartoons Remains Hostile, Hypocritical

James Barron looks with suspicion at the group hosting a Danish cartoonist whose life was threatened for a caricature mocking Muhammad: "People who have been at odds with Muslims."