LabelingBias

Taking Sides: Broder Calls Climate Change Skeptics 'Deniers,' Some Are 'Relatively Uninformed'

Reporter John Broder talks about his front-page climate change story in a nytimes.com podcast: "Well, naturally the skeptics and those who are, you know, relatively uninformed about the climate ...

Times Lauds Left-Wing Radical as 'Civil Rights Lawyer'

Ralph Fertig runs a left-wing pressure group, but to Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak he's just a "civil rights lawyer," and his wish to provide legal support to a Kurdish group in Turkey ...

Barack Obama: Just Too Much of a Complex Pragmatist for Today's Voters to Figure Out

Never mind that enormous health-care plan and "stimulus" spending, Obama's really a complex pragmatist who may be just too nuanced for today's politics: "On this much, President Obama's friends ...

More 'Hunger in America' Exaggerations Relayed By Jason DeParle

Reporter Jason DeParle plumps another exaggerated "hunger in America story" in Wednesday's paper. But he's been dead wrong about such issues before.

'Far Right' Criticizing Obama on Haiti

Helene Cooper and Mark Landler stanch criticism of Obama's Haiti policy by giving it a radioactive label.

Calling Massachusetts a Liberal State: Just a 'Political Stereotype'?

While Utah, Oklahoma, and any Deep South state is bluntly called conservative by the Times, the Times entertains doubts as to whether Massachusetts really qualifies as a liberal enclave. An ...

'Anger' Driving 'Fringe' Tea Party Movement

The Times gets some things right in its story on the new strategy of "tea party" protesters, but again labels it a "fringe" movement: "Some say the party needs to broaden its reach, not cater to ...

The 'Deeply and Deceptively Interesting' Harry Reid - In Black Lyrca Stretch Pants

Adam Nagourney provides way too much information on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "He does find time, at least twice a week, to slip on a pair of black Lycra stretch pants to do yoga with ...

Times Keeps Pushes the Myth of Missing Moderates in the G.O.P.

The mystery of the missing moderates: The "moderate wing of the Republican Party in Florida and across the country is a very, very small group...if they exist at all, Times political profiler Mark ...

Fierce Critic of Welfare Reform Makes Another Front-Page Plug for Food Stamps

But some of his victims aren't quite sympathetic: "[Wanda Debnam] sleeps with her 8-year-old granddaughter under a poster of the Jonas Brothers and uses her food stamps to avoid her ...
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