TimesWatch

The Times Follows the Aftermath of Climate-Gate in Britain

Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal's front-page fret: "Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on ...

Times Raises Sestak Bribe Allegation, Presses Obama on Hypocrisy

Peter Baker is the first Times reporter to directly address Sestak's allegations of the White House bribing him to drop out of the Democratic primary, and even raises the hypocrisy angle: "Even if ...

NYT's Economic Guru Again Hits Reagan for 'Magnifying Income Inequality'

David Leonhardt brags on Obama, who is on a regulatory roll: "Today, he looks more like a liberal answer to Ronald Reagan." He then blames Reagan for fostering income inequality, and praises Obama ...

NYT's John Harwood Scorched by Scarborough for Blumenthal Defense

Times political writer John Harwood may have gotten more than he bargained for in an appearance on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show Morning Joe when he tried to defend Connecticut Attorney General ...

Public Editor Checks Out Complaints on Blumenthal 'Vietnam' Expose, Concludes: 'The Times Was Right'

Clark Hoyt defends the paper's front-page expose on CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's fibbing about serving in Vietnam: "In the end, through all the swirling sand the article has kicked up, ...

Author of Limbaugh Bio Accused of 'Stockholm Syndrome'

Critic Janet Maslin harshly accused journalist Zev Chafets of exhibiting Stockholm syndrome for his failure to lambast Rush Limbaugh in his new biography of the talk radio giant.

Times Carves Up 'Tea Party Candidate' Rand Paul on Front Page

Times takes shot at Kentucky primary winner Rand Paul for his views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and even criticizes him for holding his victory party at a country club.

'Creating a Cuisine Out of Smoke' ...and It's Not Barbeque

First clue: The bong on the front page of the Dining Section: "Call it haute stoner cuisine."

Kudos: The Times Gets It Right in Lead on BP Oil Spill

Nothing vague about this lead to a front-page story: "Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating...."

David Herszenhorn Mocks Mitch McConnell's Limited Government Rhetoric

Not much respect for limited government views from reporter David Herszenhorn, as he takes to mocking the Senate Republican leader: "Mr. McConnell's complaint? You guessed it! Government takeover."
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