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"The Daily Show" Questions the Relevance of the New York Times

Daily Show reporter Jason Jones presents a newspaper to a Times editor and asks, only half-kidding: Who would want to read "aged news" as opposed to "real news" (on the web)?

NYT Notes Sotomayor Called Herself "A Product of Affirmative Action"

The Times keeps poking at race issues in its coverage of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. But why so many "conservative" labels?

NYT Co. Plays Hardball with Boston Globe, Imposes 23% Pay Cut

Former GE chief executive Jack Welch sees hypocrisy: "So ironic to see NYT act so brutish toward labor. Certainly would be crucifying any Company with labor practices like theirs."

Cheney-Palin Style of Patriotism Just "Belligerent and Defensive Chauvinism"

Book editor Barry Gewen lavishes the highest praise on an ambitious new book: "The patriotism on display in 'The American Future' is hardly the narrow and cramped sentiment that in recent years ...

Times Food Writer Doesn't Trust Food

Food writer Kim Severson claims E. coli is "a constant in the food supply" and passes along a filmmaker-activist's suggestions on combatting "Food, Inc.": "Plant a garden. Cook a meal for the ...

"Caring" Obama Has Osama on the Run

Did the Times ever contrast Bush and Osama like this after a Bush speech?: "If the medium were the message, the contrasts could not have been more stark. The American president was polished and ...

Obama's Muslim Outreach Bears Fruit in Lebanon's Elections - Maybe Iran Too!

Michael Slackman, whose previous reporting focused on how much the Muslim world hated America, finds the Obama administration winning hearts and minds and even elections: "There were many domestic ...

Peter Goodman's Marxist Mindset: Hummer a Sign of "Wasteful Decadence"

Peter Goodman: "Yes, that Hummer, maker of the famously gas-guzzling behemoths whose menacing width and armor trace their provenance to the American military....the Hummer has become an object ...

Stop It, Mr. President, You're Making Us Look Bad! Celebrating the Obamas' "Date Night"

"A presidential elbow to the ribs of husbands" read the text box. Would an expensive Manhattan jaunt by George and Laura Bush during a recession have been given such gauzy treatment?

In Cairo, Times Decides It's OK to Use Barack Obama's Full Name

The Times flayed the GOP for saying "Barack Hussein Obama" during the campaign, but celebrates the president's middle name when it may benefit him overseas. Plus, Obama's effortless diplomacy in ...
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