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Heartland Institute Warming Skeptics Victimized by Fraud But Still Blamed by Environmental Reporter Revkin

Double standards: Former environmental reporter Andrew Revkin stood arms-length from the leaked emails from the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit that resulted in the "Climategate" scandal that ...
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Times Covers a Dozen People in Silly Protest of Romney's Crate-Gate; Ignored Massive Pro-Life March

The New York Times found newsworthy a mocking protest against Mitt Romney by a “dozen people” representing the canine community, which apparently feels insulted by Mitt’s treatment of his ...
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Religion Reporter Spreads False "98%" Figure on Catholic Birth Control, Puts "Religious Freedom" in Scare Quotes

A slanted summary by religion reporter Laurie Goodstein is symbolic of the tone of her coverage of Obama's contraceptive mandate: "The uproar threatens to embroil the Catholic church in a bitter ...
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Calmes Almost Forgets Obama's Deficit Promises, Pushes Political Potency of His Big-Spending Budget Plan

White House reporter Jackie Calmes treated last year's Obama budget proposal as just right in its balance of spending cuts and increases and gave him a pass for putting off tough choices. But ...
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Your Sunday Lead Story: Conservative Hypocrisy in Middle Class Minnesota

The Times trumpets alleged conservative hypocrisy over big government benefits on Sunday's front page, in a 4,200-word story that liberals are gleefully swapping around. "How about higher taxes?" ...
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Michelle Obama Not Just Fashion Star But "Potent" Political Weapon Who Strikes "Common Chord"

Mark Landler heaps praise on the First Lady, down-to-earth role model and politico extraordinaire: "The trip is a timely reminder of why the Obama campaign views her as such a potent weapon." She ...
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Hard-News Times Again Hails Michelle Obama, "Stylish, Risk-Taking" Fashion "Trendsetter"

On the front of the Sunday Styles section, fashion writer Bee-Shyuan Chang and the supposedly hard-news Times once again fawns over Michelle Obama the fashion plate, who “has become a powerful ...
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NYT Goes to "Great Lengths" to Call People at Conservative Political Action Conference "Conservative"

Jeff Zeleny: "[Mitt Romney] went to great lengths to showcase his conservative core, using a variation of the word “conservative” at least 25 times during a 25-minute speech." In similar ...
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Stelter Praises "Intellectual Stimulation" Provided by Lefty MSNBC Hosts Harris-Perry, Maddow

Media reporter Brian Stelter sucked up to two liberal MSNBC hosts, praising new host Melissa Harris-Perry as a provider of "intellectual stimulation" as "the only tenured professor in the United ...
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New York Times Writers Rush to Obama's Defense Like It's Their Job

The Times is particularly sensitive to people (like Rep. Michele Bachmann did at CPAC) accusing Obama of "apologizing for America" overseas, and criticism in general: "Mrs. Bachmann was taking ...
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