AlessandraStanley

The Times Finds Anti-Bush Discontent in...NBC's Hit "Heroes"

2/7/2007 4:28 PM ET
"Nowadays, many dramas obliquely echo the public's disenchantment with their government after Abu Ghraib and the quagmire in Iraq."

"The Bible Belt is the Loire Valley of American Extremism..."

1/25/2007 2:02 PM ET
TV critic Alessandra Stanley is off the leash.

Al Jazeera, Meet the Times' Editorial Page

11/16/2006 2:50 PM ET
A bit of Al Jazeera propaganda ("alleged war on terror") sounds strangely familiar.

Willie Horton Redux: GOP "Stoke[s] Subliminal Racist Fears" in Tennessee

10/30/2006 3:49 PM ET
Alessandra Stanley writes that an RNC ad mocking Harold Ford Jr. is "seen as racist" and that the GOP "tried to stoke subliminal racist fears with the infamous Willie Horton ad...."

Stanley's Strange Take on Michael J. Fox's Misleading Campaign Ads

10/25/2006 11:15 AM ET
Huh? "If Mr. Fox did forgo medication for the advertisement as Mr. Limbaugh suggested, it could hardly be considered fraudulent: if anything, masking the extent of the disease's ravages is the ...

The Times Won't Stop Pummeling "The Path to 9-11"

9/18/2006 4:15 PM ET
A week later, the Times still criticizes the "invented scenes, fabricated dialogue and unsubstantiated accounts" in ABC's miniseries "The Path to 9-11." But what did it say about CBS's slanted ...

Stanley's Surprise: Clinton Admin to Blame For Terror Inaction

9/8/2006 1:33 PM ET
A normally liberal television reporter takes the Clinton Administration to task for failing to take terrorism seriously: "[Blaming the Bush administration] is like focusing blame for a school ...

The Times Finally Puts Plame Fizzle on Front Page

9/5/2006 12:39 PM ET
After almost 40 front-page stories on the leak of Valerie Plame's name to Robert Novak, the Times returns to the scene of the non-crime.
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