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Times Goes to Left-Wing SPLC to Suggest Shooter Had 'Far-Right' Leanings

An unbiased fount of facts? "Some people who study right-wing militia groups and those who align themselves with the so-called Patriot movement said Mr. Loughner's comments on subjects like the ...

Classless Krugman Said Shooting Was Political Before Killer Even Identified

Krugman on Monday: "When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? Put me in the latter ...

NYT Blames 'Vitriol in Politics,' Palin's Campaign Map for Schizophrenic's Rampage

The Times plays up comments by the local sheriff in Tucson blaming conservative political rhetoric for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, and Sarah Palin's 2010 campaign map shares blame: "Ms. ...

Moral Equivalency Watch in Coverage of Deadly Church Bombing in Egypt

A bombing "prompted concerns that national cohesion was being threatened by the spread of religious extremism among Muslims and Christians," according to a front-page story by Michael Slackman, ...

Obama's New Press Secretary - David Brooks? It's Not That Far-Fetched

Could Times "conservative" columnist David Brooks become Obama's press secretary? Politico speculates: "David Brooks is one of the few columnists Obama is known to read with respect..."

Nick Kristof Doesn't See Any Harm in Bowdlerizing Huck Finn

Behold the great free-speech liberal on his Twitter feed: "If censoring Huck Finn will help get a great book back on h.s. reading lists, isn't that worth it?" Meanwhile, the paper's editorial page ...

Carl Hulse, Ignoring History, Assumes Obama-Care Will Save Money

The paper's congressional reporter claims that rules proposed by the new Republican majority "would permit repeal of the health care legislation, which was estimated to save the government more ...

Left-Wing Village Voice Not Liberal But Heroically 'Muckraking'

After the shock departure of two of its veteran reporters, Jeremy Peters ponders the future of the "muckraking" Village Voice, without a hint of its proud tradition of counter-cultural leftism.

The Times Finally Covers Union Snow-Shoveling Slowdown, Buries It on A-20

After being beaten to the punch by local TV and the New York Post, the Times tentatively tackled charges that sanitation workers sabotaged the cleanup after last week's city blizzard - but only ...

The Times Finds Very Pregnant Mexican to Argue Against Conservative 'Birthright' Talk

The front of the Times told a heart-rending story from the Arizona border, of a pregnant Mexican woman being deported who had tried to waddle north to America for a better life. Reporter Marc ...
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