TimesWatch

What About Iraq? NYT Pollsters Skip Long-Standing Question

After five years of asking respondents how they think things are going in Iraq, Times' pollsters suddenly switch to Afghanistan, where prospects are worse. Is it because an improving Iraq is ...

Send Your W-2's in Care of Brown University.

A Times' letter-writer's love affair with her 1040 form: "[Columnist Ben Stein] says he doesn't care for paying taxes, but I like it."

Neo-Liberal Timesman on Obama the "Fiscal Conservative"

David Leonhardt obsesses over income inequality and claims that "Relative to McCain...Obama does indeed look like a fiscal conservative."

Does the Times Think Brigitte Gabriel's a "Radical Islamophobe"?

The author and opponent of radical Islam faces amazingly hostile and suspicious questions from the Times' liberal "Q&A" interviewer Deborah Solomon (pictured).

Reporters Annoyed with McCain's Mockery of Obama

It's OK for Democrats to mock McCain as a tool of Big Oil, but don't laugh or issue "snarky news releases" about Obama's tire gauge suggestion.

Michael Luo's Anti-Romney Piece Crammed with "Conservative" Labels

The presidential race is tightening, yet the Times still portrays "conservatives" as full of angst over their VP choices.

Times Implausibly Finds "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart Nonpartisan

Michiko Kakutani: "For all its eviscerations of the administration, 'The Daily Show' is animated not by partisanship but by a deep mistrust of all ideology." What show has she been watching?

A Double Standard on "Smears"

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Willie Horton ad fall under the "smear" category, but the NAACP's 2000 attack on George W. Bush doesn't.

Times Makes Obama's Hawaiian Vacation a True Day at the Beach

Even while the candidate's on vacation, the Obama camp gets more and better coverage than does John McCain.

Name That Party - Times Takes Its Time Anointing (D)'s in Trouble

Republicans, by contrast, get almost instant identification in news stories on their alleged misdeeds.
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