TimesWatch

Obama Flatterer Jodi Kantor Gets Seven-Figure Deal to Pen Obama Book

Young Times reporter Jodi Kantor has signed "a stunning seven-figure book deal" about Obama, less than a month after her flattering piece on the First Couple appeared on the cover of the Times ...

Obama in China: No 'Loud Chest-Beating' Like Bush

Diplomatic reporter Helene Cooper applied some spin to Barack Obama's hamstrung visit to Beijing.

Obama Not to Blame for Flu Vaccine Shortages, but Bush Was Tagged in 2004

The ongoing shortage of swine flu vaccine is not laid at the feet of the Obama White House: His name doesn't even appear in a story quoting "federal health officials" about the shortages. But with ...

Krugman's Hypocrisy: GOP Should Be Shunned for Comparing Dems to Hitler...

but in an April column, Krugman compared Rush Limbaugh to Joseph Stalin.

'Hunger' in America Makes a Comeback...in Times Headlines, Anyway

An Agriculture Department study showing a rise in "food insecurity" becomes a "soaring" increase in U.S. "hunger" in the hands of excitable Times headline writers.

Was KSM Really 'Tortured By Waterboarding 183 Times'?

If Khalid Shaikh Mohammed really was "tortured by waterboarding 183 times" before he gave information, as a high-strung editorial claims, how awful could the procedure really be? But the Times' ...

Times 'Bows' to Obama Officials Who Say President Observed Protocol in Japan

Besides dismissing concerns over Obama's deep bow in Japan as attacks from "conservative American bloggers," reporters Helene Cooper and David Barboza see Obama making "progress" in getting Russia ...

Times Sells MSNBC As 'Progressive But Not Partisan'

In his profile of MSNBC and host Rachel Maddow, reporter Brian Stelter stuck to supportive sources who believe MSNBC has ideological integrity and independence where Fox News has none.

Cheap Shot Alert: Paul Krugman Attacks Powerline Blog, Citing Four-Year-Old Post

Economist turned liberal-meme chasing columnist Paul Krugman wondered if Media Matters would get credit for bringing down CNN anchor Lou Dobbs "the way the ludicrous Powerline got lionized for ...

Frank Rich Breaks Columnists' Silence on Fort Hood, Chides 'Self-Proclaimed Patriots of the American Right'

The Times former drama critic reluctantly suggests conservatives may have a point about political correctness making the Fort Hood massacre possible, but then goes into a muddled argument blaming ...
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