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New York Times' Massacre Coverage Permeated With Calls for Gun Control

The New York Times wasted no time in politicizing Friday's massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Calls for legislation permeating the paper's weekend coverage of the ...
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NYT Still Ignoring CEO Mark Thompson Controversy: What Did He Know About Child Sex Abuse and When?

The New York Times ran two stories on the same page of Thursday's International section that touched on long-running sex-and-media scandals. But there's one the paper is ignoring that hits ...
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New York Times' Weisman Hits 'Far Right' Conservatives in Congress for 'Speaking Out of Turn'

Does reporter Jonathan Weisman think "far right" conservatives should just shut up? "Even before conservatives began speaking out of turn, pragmatists were pressing the leadership to take up and ...
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New York Times' Shane Calls Waterboarding 'Torture' on Front Page While Chiding 'Zero Dark Thirty''s Portrayal

New York Times intelligence reporter Scott Shane made the front page with a quasi-review of "Zero Dark Thirty," the critically acclaimed new release about the bin Laden raid that suggests ...
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NYT's Calmes Wins Dubious 'Unbiased' Title From Analyst Who Thinks Media Soft on Romney

Times reporter Jackie Calmes had the dubious honor of being singled out as a "diligent unbiased reporter" by Norman Ornstein, who coauthored a book blaming Republicans for everything wrong with ...
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NYT's Kim Severson Fears 'Controversial' Conservatives Are Shifting North Carolina to the Right

Kim Severson is worried about conservative control in North Carolina: "...North Carolina, long a politically moderate player in the South, will soon have its most conservative government in a ...
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NYT Provides More Pro-Union Coverage from Michigan; Union Protest Violence Ignored

Once again, New York Times reporter Monica Davey covered the successful bid by Michigan Republicans to pass "right to work" legislation, forbidding unions to coerce membership dues from workers, ...
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NYT's Egan Sees 'Smothering' of Gun-Control Debate, Says Limbaugh and Malkin Are Like Salt to a Slug

Huh? Timothy Egan writes "Conservatives complain about anti-free-speech vigilantes who keep incendiary voices of the right from being heard on college campuses, and they have a valid point. ...
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Another Sour NYTimes Story on Michigan's Right-to-Work Legislation Tilts Toward Losing Labor Side

Even as right-to-work legislation makes strides towards passage in labor-friendly Michigan, reporter Monica Davey focused on the losing, pro-union side from the start: "With Democratic furor ...
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NYT's Climate Change Reporter Dismisses 'Skeptical Skunks,' Assumes Problem 'Growing Worse'

Times climate-change reporter John Broder shows his deep respect for dissenting opinionsin a print story and on the paper's Green blog: "Few would compare a United Nations climate change ...
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