TimesWatch

'Mostly Peacefully' Means 'Somewhat Violently' at the New York Times

Randal Archibold describes a demonstration involving advocates for illegal immigrants: "As hundreds of demonstrators massed, mostly peacefully, at the capitol plaza..." There were actually three ...

Will Mike Hale's Review of 'My Lai' Documentary Compare It to Iraq, Afghanistan? Of Course

Mike Hale goes there: "The slaughter of hundreds of unarmed villagers in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, in March 1968 - an event that came to be known as the My Lai massacre - is both an open wound ...

NYT Hails Jon Stewart, 'Television's Pre-eminent Fact-checker of Fox News'

The Times goes after an old enemy indirectly, in a flattering profile of "The Daily Show" and its relentless "fact-checking" of Fox News.

Ross Douthat Takes on Underplayed 'South Park' Censorship Story

Ross Douthat: "But there's still a sense in which the 'South Park' case is particularly illuminating. Not because it tells us anything new about the lines that writers and entertainers suddenly ...

Delay of Cap and Trade a 'Disaster' and 'Travesty,' Columnist Friedman Despairs, 'Shame on Republicans'

Reacting to news the Obama administration wants to postpone a vote on Cap and Trade in favor of immigration reform, Times columnist Tom Friedman despaired on Sunday's Face the Nation: This is a ...

Classy: NYT Executive Editor Uses Book Review to Call Murdoch 'Corrosive'

Bill Keller, the New York Times executive editor, uses a book review to make a crack at his right-leaning newspaper rival Rupert Murdoch: "The last of his breed of media tycoon is a 79-year-old ...

'South Park,' Muhammad, and Double Standards

The creators of the Comedy Central cartoon South Park had their lives threatened by a Muslim group for insulting the prophet Muhammad, but two Times headlines said they were merely being warned." ...

John Harwood to Obama: Is Wall Street As 'Harmful' To Us as Big Tobacco?

NYT writer and CNBC personality John Harwood pressed Barack Obama about the need to regulate Wall Street as he questioned the president if Americans needed to view financial companies in the same ...

Could Crist Win as Independent in Florida, Hurt Tea Party? The Times Has Hope

The Times portrays Florida governor Charlie Crist, who may drop out of the Republican Party and run as an independent candidate for Senate, as a moderate "pragmatist" in the mode of...Obama? Will ...

No Surprise: Times Readership Easily Most Liberal of Any 'Objective' News Outlet

A study on where people of different political persuasions get their news finds that the New York Times readership is the most liberal of any cited news outlet that holds itself out as an ...
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