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NY Times Editor Abramson Called Brusque, 'Very Unpopular,' Defenders Cry Sexism

Politico media reporter Dylan Byers stirred up media indignation with an unflattering article on Jill Abramson, the New York Times executive editor, based on anonymous Times sources who claim ...
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Really? NYT Front Page: Terrorist's Twitter Suggests 'Holden Caulfield-like Adolescent Alienation...Downright Sentimental'

A Times book critic provides this peerless analysis of the younger bomber's Twitter feed: "But others suggest a more Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation: 'some people are just ...

New York Times Finally Notices Gosnell Trial...When a Development In His Favor Occurs

The trial in Philadelphia of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, on trial for infanticide, continues to be mostly ignored by the mainstream press. After public outcry, the New York Times finally ...
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Benghazi Report Critical of Hillary Buried in Graf 17 of NY Times Story; Wash Post Runs Full Account

A Times storyabout a car-bombing in Libya buried an important new development in the Benghazi scandal: A report from House Republicans accused then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of ...

NYT Leans Heavily on Questionable '90 Percent' of People Who Favor Background Checks

The Times takes for granted that 90% of the public actually support background checks and that Obama has failed to gain a victory on behalf of the people: "That raises a broader question: If he ...
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NYT Reporter: Slight Reduction in Entitlement Spending 'Big Downside for Old and Poor'

Personal finance reporter Tara Siegel Bernard's latest liberal "Your Money" column shows how difficult it is to make the smallest reductions in federal spending: "President Obama has put Social ...
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NYT's Ludicrously Liberal Columnists Give It Their Worst in the Sunday Review

Liberal NYT columnists do what they do best: Thomas Friedman pivots from the Boston bombings to a carbon tax, Maureen Dowd gives mock-worthy "tough guy" advice to Obama, and Frank Bruni slams the ...
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Emotional Anecdotes Trump Reasonable Arguments in NYT's Gun Coverage

When it comes to pushing gun control, the New York Times reliably relied on emotional outbursts over reasonable argument every time. Sheryl Gay Stolberg quoted an activist removed from the Senate ...
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NY Times' Boston Coverage Stumbles Over Soft Headlines and Suspect's 'Jumbled' Politics

Doesn't sound very "jumbled" to us. Columnist Charles Blow insisted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's "politics seemed jumbled," based on the suspect's Twitter feed: "On Election Day he retweeted a tweet ...
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NYT Headline Over Story on Bombing Suspects: 'Far From War-Torn Homeland, Trying to Fit In'

The Times runs sympathetic-sounding headlines over its Friday profile of the two Chechnya-born suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. First: "Far From War-Torn Homeland, Trying to Fit In." ...
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