http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/390/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-barely-touches-reagans-100th-unflattering-when-it-does <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Not exactly a commemoration: The Times&#039; sparse coverage is highlighted by a friendly interview with a Reagan-hostile HBO documentary filmmaker and a column from Reagan&#039;s liberal biographer Edmund Morris that emphasized Reagan&#039;s post-presidential mental deterioration. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> New York Times coverage on the weekend of President Ronald Reagan's centennial (he would have turned 100 on Sunday) was both modest and hostile, considering the 40th president was one of the most successful presidents of the 20th century, one who re-invigorated the American economy and hastened the defeat of the Soviet Union. The few gestures the Times did make confessed to Reagan's personal sunniness, while portraying his policies as harmful to the poor and middle class.<br /><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-barely-touches-reagans-100th-unflattering-when-it-does" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Centennial DeborahSolomon EdmundMorris HowellRaines JenniferMedina liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias RonaldReagan TimesWatch Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:42:00 +0000 admin 133 at http://archive2.mrc.org