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She's No John Edwards: Times Quickly Airs Blogger's Claim of Affair With SC Gov. Candidate

Whatever happened to the Times' daintiness over sexual allegations involving Democrats like John Edwards? Shaila Dewan barely hedges when reporting claims of an affair between a candidate for ...

NYT Sees GOP's Special Election Loss as Harbinger for November

The Times continued to use its front-page real estate to trumpet last week's G.O.P.'s loss in a special House election in Pennsylvania as a warning sign for the 2010 elections, even though the ...

The Times Follows the Aftermath of Climate-Gate in Britain

Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal's front-page fret: "Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on ...

Times Raises Sestak Bribe Allegation, Presses Obama on Hypocrisy

Peter Baker is the first Times reporter to directly address Sestak's allegations of the White House bribing him to drop out of the Democratic primary, and even raises the hypocrisy angle: "Even if ...

NYT's Economic Guru Again Hits Reagan for 'Magnifying Income Inequality'

David Leonhardt brags on Obama, who is on a regulatory roll: "Today, he looks more like a liberal answer to Ronald Reagan." He then blames Reagan for fostering income inequality, and praises Obama ...

NYT's John Harwood Scorched by Scarborough for Blumenthal Defense

Times political writer John Harwood may have gotten more than he bargained for in an appearance on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show Morning Joe when he tried to defend Connecticut Attorney General ...

Public Editor Checks Out Complaints on Blumenthal 'Vietnam' Expose, Concludes: 'The Times Was Right'

Clark Hoyt defends the paper's front-page expose on CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's fibbing about serving in Vietnam: "In the end, through all the swirling sand the article has kicked up, ...

Author of Limbaugh Bio Accused of 'Stockholm Syndrome'

Critic Janet Maslin harshly accused journalist Zev Chafets of exhibiting Stockholm syndrome for his failure to lambast Rush Limbaugh in his new biography of the talk radio giant.

Even As Democrats Stand Against Public Opinion, Times Sees GOP Jeopardy Over AZ Law

The front page of Saturday's New York Times screamed how "Arizona Law Reveals Split Within GOP." Fair enough. But the Democrats are ostensibly in worse shape, having publicly and visibly denounced ...

The Texas Textbook Massacre: 'Christian Conservative Voting Bloc' on the Attack

Michael Brick's update from Austin on the ideological fight over Texas textbooks follows the paper's usual pattern of pretending the only ideologues in the fight are "conservative," failing to ...
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