Placement

NYT Fronts Columnist's Optimistic Take on Recovery, 2010 Prospects for Dems

The paper's financial correspondent Floyd Norris earns rare front-page placement with a column blaring optimism about the U.S. economy.

NYT Editors: Powerful and Modest

A story on Times editors hashing out the next morning's front page talks of "11 men and 7 women with the power to decide what was important in the world."

Sarah Palin's Clothing: Front-Page News

The hard-news Times even compiled a slide show of Palin's outfit, complete with snarky commentary: "But looking at the before-and-after photos, it was not readily apparent what Ms. Palin got from ...

Stanley Again Gets Front-Page Treatment for Lightweight Anti-McCain Musings

Alessandra Stanley: "[McCain] smiled tightly when Mr. Obama spoke, perhaps under instruction from aides not to be grumpy as he attacked on multiple fronts. But viewers saw not the happy warrior so ...

Times Editor Questions the Timing of Terror Alerts

Times Weekend Editor Marty Gottlieb "was mindful of a history of orange alerts that came at politically convenient times and previous terror plots that wound up amounting to less than they first ...

The Times Again Dismisses Seriousness of Kennedy Airport Terror Threat

"Papers Portray Plot as More Talk than Action"

Kennedy Airport Terror Plot Doesn't Make Times' Main Section

The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times found the Kennedy Airport terror plot worthy of the front page - but the hometown paper downplayed the threat in its own backyard.
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