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NY Times Falsely Hints Racism Played a Role in Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal

The Times trots out a defense of the indefensible in an Atlanta case of teachers altering government test scores to falsely boost achievement rates of minority students: "Critics said racism was ...
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NYT Pitches Sunny Harry Reid as Force on Gun Control, Downplays His Burial of Assault Weapons Ban

Ugh. Jennifer Steinhauer on the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "Mr. Reid remains an enigma of sorts in Washington, a quiet force whose voice is often barely audible, who skips Sunday talk ...
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Krugman Credits Cali's Comeback to Fighting 'Fanatical' Conservatives on Tax Hikes

California is making a comeback, says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, and you'll never guess why: "Unemployment in California remains high, but it’s coming down -- and there’s a ...
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Trip Gabriel's Hostile Trip to a 'White, Ethnic' Enclave of Pennsylvania 'Insensitive' to Illegal Immigrants

New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel sniffs the air in a former Pennsylvania coal town that was among the first to try and "make life difficult for illegal immigrants": "Hazleton evokes the ...
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NYT's Public Editor Thinks Latest Front-Page NYPD Racial Profiling Accusations Overstated

The NYT's liberal public editor faults the latest front-page accusation of racial profiling on the part of the NYPD: "But with its emphasis on one sentence -- without enough context -- and its ...
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End of a Sorry Student Testing Saga for the New York Times and Beverly Hall

A front-page New York Times story by Michael Winerip on indictments in a student testing scandal in Atlanta involving Beverly Hall, former superintendent of that city's predominantly minority ...
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The NY Times' Mortifying Easter Error: 'Resurrection Into Heaven of Jesus, Three Days After He Was Crucified'

A Rome-based reporter for the New York Times manages to botch the meaning of Easter: "Easter is the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus, three days after he was crucified, the ...

Top 10 for the 10th Anniversary of Times Watch: Presenting the Absolute Worst From the New York Times

Times Watch is marking its 10th anniversary with a Top 10 list of the most important liberal bias we've uncovered. Topics include: Jayson Blair's plagiarism, Howell Raines’ ego-plagued ...
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NY Times Lets 'Visibly Frustrated' Obama 'Sternly' Lecture Congress on Gun Control

The Times sympathetically hypes the gun-control angst of a "visibly frustrated" President Obama: "With resistance to tougher gun laws stiffening in Congress, a visibly frustrated President Obama ...
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Barbaro's Bashing of NYC's GOP Mayoral Candidate Highlights NYT's Double Standards on Religious Mockery

Joseph Lhota is a moderate Republican running for mayor of New York City, but Michael Barbaro's front-page story focuses on an incident from 1999 when he inflamed Manhattan's artsy left-wing ...
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