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James Dao Hails Anti-War GOP on Front Page, Latest Snipe Against Afghanistan War

James Dao makes the front page again with another story critical of the Afghanistan war, this time heralding a conservative congressman as "the leading edge of a conservative movement to rein in ...

NYT's Middle East Morality: Israel Border Defense Makes Front Page, Mass Syrian Massacres on A-12

While Israel's armed response to the attempted invasion on its border with Syria made Monday's front page, Syrian authorities themselves have slaughtered over 1,000 of its rebelling citizens, ...

Bill Keller: You'd Have to Be a Conspiracy Theorist Not to Believe the New York Times

The paper's executive editor Bill Keller laments that "Suspicion hardens into full-blown conviction when people lose faith in authorities" like the New York Times. Keller approvingly quotes ...

The 'Fiercely Principled' Jack Kevorkian Helped 'Spur the Growth of Hospice Care'

A Times obituary for Jack Kevorkian, who practiced ad-hoc euthanasia, gave him credit for principle while eliding much of his creepiness, recounted by a fellow Times reporter: "Kevorkian was ...

No Longer Fit to Print: Abramson's Religious Worship of the Times

Incoming Executive Editor Jill Abramson's described her life-long religious love for the Times to a reporter for the paper: "In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The ...

Keller Snipes at Fox and 'Mumbling' Murdoch, Hypocritically Ducks 'Baseball Bat' Offer

Bill Keller may be resigning from the top job at the Times, but his hostility for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News remains: "There are commentators on Fox News who, if they didn't have The New York ...

Times Initially Omits John Edwards' Party ID After Indictment; Quick to Label Troubled GOP

Katharine Seelye's initial online report on the indictment on campaign finance violations of John Edwards, the former senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate left out one crucial word: ...

Meet the Times' New Liberal Boss, Jill Abramson, Champion of Anita Hill

Jill Abramson, who will become Times executive editor in September, still holds a grudge over how Anita Hill was treated during the Thomas hearings (and wrote "Strange Justice," a Thomas-hostile ...

Bill Keller Resigns as Exec. Editor, Reporter Hails His 'Great Journalistic Distinction.' Really?

In the wake of Bill Keller's surprise resignation as editor of the New York Times, a reporter there hails Keller's "eight years of great journalistic distinction." Times Watch begs to differ (see ...

Times Pushes Tornadoes As Economic Stimulus

Frederic Bastiat, call your office: "There is no silver lining to a funnel cloud, as anyone who survived the tornadoes can attest, but reconstruction can help rebuild local economies as well as ...
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