DoubleStandards

'Balanced' Times 'Reporter' Kate Zernike Waxes Sarcastic on Tea Party 'Hearings'

Tea Party beat reporter Kate Zernike uses up her quote of sarcastic quotation marks in a story on an unofficial Tea Party hearing: "[Republican Sen. Mike] Lee promptly led the activists down the ...

NYT: OWS Troublemakers Merely Fringe, But Tea Party 'Responsible for the Behavior of People'

The New York Times today: "Many protesters say the lawless visitors constitute a tiny fringe and are not representative of the movement....the criminal and antisocial elements are a small ...

OWS Troublemakers Are Fringe, But Tea Party 'Responsible for the Behavior of People'

The Times today: "Many protesters say the lawless visitors constitute a tiny fringe and are not representative of the movement....the criminal and antisocial elements are a small minority..." ...

NYT Quickly Fronts Vague Cain Charges, Ignored John Edwards Adultery Allegations Almost a Year

While the Times put 15-year-old anonymous accusations of sexual harassment against GOP candidate Herman Cain on the front page just one full day after they surfaced, it waited 10 months before ...

Ick: 'For Children's Sake, Taking to the Streets'

How cute: "And so it goes in the second month of Occupy Wall Street, where children are becoming an increasing presence as parents try to seize a 'teachable moment' to enlighten them on matters ...

NYT Claims Poll Finds America Has Affinity for Lefty OWS Protesters

"The combustible climate helps explain the volatility of the presidential race and has provided an opening for protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, to highlight grievances about banks, ...

Times Denies Broad Anti-Semitism at OWS; Quick to Uncover Racism During Tea Party Rallies

Joseph Berger spins away accusations of anti-Semitism against OWS: "The Occupy Wall Street protests...have increasingly been criticized by a variety of groups, most of them politically ...

NY Times Again Goes After Personal Finances of Tea Party Favorite

Jennifer Steinhauer and Steven Yaccino: "But Mr. Walsh's own finances are not quite in step with the tight-ship budgeting he calls for in Washington. According to a lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, ...

OWS Like Tiananmen Square, But Tea Party Protests Were Like Terrorist Weathermen

Michael Kimmelman's piece on the Aristotelian "polis" of Occupy Wall Street was accompanied by photos of legendary protests from Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the Times ...

Obama's 'Political Victory' Makes Lead Story; His 'Major Setback' Set Back on Page 13

Double standards on story placement? A story on passage of trade agreements promising "minor" economic benefits makes Thursday's lead slot and is trumpeted as a "political victory," yet when ...
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