NYTimes

Swift Boat Vets Inspired a Term for "Smearing a Political Opponent with Lies"

Charlie Savage is not happy with a new anti-Sonia Sotomayor ad with a tie to the campaign against John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

An "Extraordinarily Deep" 3% Cut in California School Budget?

Pro-tax reporter Jennifer Steinhauer warned about budget-cutting talks in California: "Details emerging from the talks suggested that the deal would require extraordinarily deep cuts to school ...

NYT Really Excited Sotomayor's From NYC

Metro section reporter Manny Fernandez has made Sotomayor into an Obama-style figure of inspiration for three days running, basing his stories on the thinnest of connective tissue: The "main ...

Crying Populist Concern Over Goldman Sachs' "Gilded Pay Packages"

The Times sees populist pitchforks being sharpened as Goldman Sachs dares to make a record profit and give out bonuses: "...in Washington, some lawmakers warned on Tuesday that a quick return to ...

Times Commits "Dateline Toe Touch" at the Episcopal Church's Anaheim Convention

Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein gets snippy when challenged on a misleading dateline in her story on the Episcopal Church's convention in Anaheim.

Maureen Dowd: A "Disgrace" That Bush "Appointed Two White Men" to Court

Dowd: "It was a disgrace that W. appointed two white men to a court stocked with white men." So why did she dismiss Bush's initial choice for the Alito seat: Harriet Miers?

Cheney's "Secret Counterterrorism Program" Not So Secret After All

On Sunday the Times hinted darkly about a "secret counterterrorism program" Dick Cheney concealed from Congress. Now the details are out - and it turns out the Times reported the program (killing ...

Ignoring Troubled Auto Czar's Friendship With NYT Publisher

The friendship between Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Obama's "auto czar" Steven Rattner has not been worth mentioning ever since Rattner's old Wall Street firm first drew attention in ...

Times "Right to Privacy" Actually All About Abortion

Does the heated issue of abortion, which involves more than one human being, really merit the protective covering of the phrase, a "right to privacy"?

Bush vs. Obama: Double Standards on Africa's Enthusiasm

While the Times found Africa "rapt" with attention while listening to Barack Obama in Ghana, last year it found "Bush Confront[ing] Hard Questions," emphasizing the continents' ongoing woes and ...
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