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Front of the Arts Section: We're All Doomed By Climate Change

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:50:00 +0000

This is an Arts story? "The show...is an ambitious attempt to call attention to the long-range impact of humanity's unrelenting thirst for energy. The melting of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau, at the headwaters of Asia's great rivers, threatens the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people downstream. Scientists say climate change is also responsible for the increasing unpredictability and strength of storms around the globe, and that impact is shown here in photographs by the American artist Clifford Ross of towering waves off the coast of Long Island during hurricane season."

Clay Waters

Edward Wong's review of a Beijing art gallery's exhibit of photos depicting the dangers of global warming filled the top half of the front of the Times' Thursday's Arts section: 'Beijing Gallery Puts a Focus on Global Warming.' Wong used the art story to forward as fact the most extreme scientific predictions suggesting that we're all doomed by "climate change": 'The melting of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau, at

The NY Times Plugs Maoist Tourist Spot in China: 'Red Is Far From Dead'

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:38:00 +0000

Clay Waters

Reporter Edward Wong took an inordinately cheery look at a Maoist tourist attraction in the Chinese city of Yan'an in Friday's "Revolution Isn't a Party, But It Draws The Tourists." The online headline was clearer: "China's Red Tourism Taps Communist Pride for Profit."

Times Plugs Maoist Tourist Spot in China: 'Red Is Far From Dead'

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Um, hooray? Edward Wong reports on a Maoist tourist spot in China where "young professionals...rekindle their long-lost sense of class struggle and proletarian principles." The millions wiped out in the Cultural Revolution and the famine were relegated to the 18th paragraph.

Clay Waters

Today's Lead: China's Soaring Economy Making a Path for Other Nations

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:10:00 +0000

Edward Wong: "Chinese officials seem to be galled by the apparent hypocrisy of Americans telling them what to do while the American economy is at best stagnant." No mention of the hundreds of schools that collapsed during the recent earthquake.

Clay Waters

Is the Chinese way toeconomic growth a model for other nations to follow? That was the theme ofEdward Wong'sleadstory fromBeijing, "Booming, China Faults U.S. Policy On The Economy- A New Self-Confidence - Chinese Cite Approach as More Suitable for Many Nations."

Our Lead Story: Accusations of US-Al Qaeda Ties

admin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:17:00 +0000

Alissa Rubin, the Times newest Iraq War pessimist: "Many Iraqis, beleaguered at every turn, said they saw the bomb as...one more piece of evidence that the Americans could not protect them from extremists. Many of those who live near the site of the destruction said they had concluded that the Americans must be helping the suicide bombers."

Clay Waters

Wednesday's lead story by Alissa Rubin on the deadly explosion that destroyed part of the Khalani Mosque in Baghdad included this line: "The timing seemed intended to demonstrate that the insurgents could still strike with near impunity, blindsiding the American security crackdown in Baghdad."

Saddam Who? Times Marks 4th Anniversary of "Fall of Baghdad"

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:57:00 +0000

Did U.S. forces topple a dictator or just wreck Iraq's capital city?

Clay Waters

Saddam who?

Tuesday's lead story by Edward Wong, on the march in Baghdad by loyalists of radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, marked the day as the four-year anniversary of "Baghdad's Fall"- not the fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

No Surge Protectors in the Times' Baghdad Bureau

admin — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:38:00 +0000

The Times again suggests the troops surge in Iraq is doomed to failure.

Clay Waters

Monday's lead story by Alissa Rubin and the Times' resident surge pessimist Edward Wong, "Patterns of War Shift in Iraq Amid Buildup of U.S.

Wong Finds a Way to Spin Early Success of the Troop "Surge"

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:23:00 +0000

Edward Wong makes the worst out of some good news from Iraq: "The heightened American street presence may already have contributed to an increase in the percentage of American deaths that occur in Baghdad."

Clay Waters

Baghdad-based correspondent Edward Wong is the ever-pessimistic reporter who was itching to declare Iraq in "civil war" over a year before the rest of the liberal media.

Bill Keller Follows NBC's Lead: Reporters Can Call Iraq Conflict "Civil War"

admin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:21:00 +0000

Good news for Baghdad-based reporter Edward Wong: Bill Keller declares Times reporters can now call the conflict in Iraq a "civil war."

Clay Waters

This morning, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller announced the paper will follow NBC's lead and allow its reporters to refer to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war."

Keller said in a statement to Editor & Publisher: