DoubleStandards

Times Celebrates Murdered Pro-Hamas Activist on Front Page, Almost Ignores Young Hamas Victim

"For Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian pro-Palestinian activist who friends said fought peacefully for justice, the end was as violent as it was incongruous....Mr. Arrigoni had dedicated his life to ...

Times Leaps on Gov. Christie's Mild 'Violent Imagery,' Ignores Much Harsher Democratic Attacks on GOP Pols

Christie's metaphor to reporters about "taking a bat" to a Democratic critic gets a full story in the Times. Yet Democratic pols who talk about "blowing the brains out" of one Republican, or ...

Tax Me Please, Says Columnist Kristof, While Calling for Defense Cuts as Libya Hawk

Kristof: "President Obama in his speech on Wednesday confronted a topic that is harder to address seriously in public than sex or flatulence: America needs higher taxes....We need to have a frank ...

CA Gov. Calls for Tax Hikes, State's Democratic Ballot Process Suddenly a Good Thing

Poor California Gov. Brown: "Gov. Jerry Brown, seeking authorization to ask California voters to extend expiring taxes to avoid more draconian budget cuts....Brown seems more frustrated and ...

Obama Will 'Spare,' 'Reduce the Growth' of Medicare, But GOP Threatens to 'Shrink' It With 'Big Cuts'

While GOP attempts at reform of Medicare are eviscerated as 'big Medicare cuts' or a 'shrinking,' the Times greets Obama's proposals with soothing words like 'overhaul' or claims that Obama is ...

Dictators and Double Standards? Times Goes After Inhofe, Stayed Quiet on Ted Kennedy-Andropov Memo

Tracking conservative figures who support Ivory Coast's dictator, Mark Oppenheimer unearths A secretive evangelical Christian organization that some say has a right-wing agenda. Meanwhile, the ...

The NYT's Tale of Two Medicare Plans: Obama's Painless 'Savings' vs. the GOP's 'Shrinking'

According to New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes, Obama will find harmless "savings" in Medicare, while the GOP threatens to "shrink" the program: "The Republican plan includes a shrinking of ...

Commander Kristof: Send SWAT Team to Seize Col. Qaddafi

The liberal anti-war bona fides of columnist Nicholas Kristof expired with the Bush administration "Mr. Obama and other world leaders did something truly extraordinary, wonderful and rare: they ...

Another Day, Another Front-Page Expose of a Tea Party Group From Mike McIntire

In Times land, there are no coincidences and everything is connected, at least when it comes to conservative activism. Reporter Mike McIntire scores another front-page story from a hostile ...

No Lock-Out Coverage for Obama, But Bush's Door Flub Was Front-Page News

In 2005, the Times published a four-panel picture on the front page that extended over two columns showing President Bush trying to exit a press conference in Beijing through a locked door...but ...
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