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Executive Editor Keller Contemplates Being 'Frog-Marched' in Shackles Over Publishing State Secrets

Secret-publishing editor Bill Keller and conservative critic Gabriel Schoenfeld have a surprisingly amicable discussion on where to draw the line on publishing state secrets in the Internet age.

NYT Leads With Optimism Based on 8.8% Joblessness: 'A Lift for Obama...White House Warns G.O.P.'

Michael Powell's lead story: "The president and his fellow Democrats pointed to the latest jobs report on Friday...as evidence that their policies, like stimulus spending and the payroll tax cut, ...

NYT Vs. Unjust State Spending Cuts: Florida Edition

Reporter Lizette Alvarez waxes moralistic about a small trim in unemployment benefits: "But to some here in Flagler County, where the economy rose higher but fell harder than in any other in ...

NYT vs. 'Pain' and 'Hurt' of State Budget Cuts: New York State Edition

Reporter Thomas Kaplan manages to criticize the "pain" to come from Cuomo's budget cuts without once mentioning the state's $10 billion deficit: "...the consequences of a budget that makes deep ...

Privileged Food Writer Mark Bittman Blames 'Unregulated Capitalism and Greed,' Bush, Reagan Tax Cuts for U.S. Hunger

Wealthy Times food writer Mark Bittman revels in his college-level leftism: "Some (or much) of both of these last two stem from unregulated capitalism and greed.Well this is really to call ...

Another Day, Another Front-Page Expose of a Tea Party Group From Mike McIntire

In Times land, there are no coincidences and everything is connected, at least when it comes to conservative activism. Reporter Mike McIntire scores another front-page story from a hostile ...

Wealthy Americans Don't Actually Earn Their Money, Merely 'Receive' or 'Claim' It?

Do wealthy person in America "earn" their money, or is just "claimed" or "received" by them? Catherine Rampell reports: "most of the income gains over the last few decades have gone to the very ...

Michael Shear Pins Medals on Obama, a 'Foreign Policy President' for 2012

Michael Shear reboots the anti-war candidate as an international affairs expert: "But of the likely top-tier Republican candidates, none can boast any significant experience beyond the borders of ...

Food Writer Mark Bittman: People Will 'Starve to Death' Under House Budget

Bittman, who also writes food-related news stories for the Times, unleashed a vicious attack on fiscal conservatives on Wednesday's op-ed page: "These supposedly deficit-reducing cuts - they'd ...

NYT Against State Spending Cuts: Michigan's 6-Week Cut in Jobless Benefits 'Miserly,' 'Stringent'

Michael Cooper doesn't approve of Michigan's small cut in unemployment benefits: "Democrats and advocates for the unemployed expressed outrage that such a hard-hit state will become the most ...
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