Elitism

CNBC's Harwood Claims Public Doesn't Know Enough about Obamacare

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:35:49 +0000

Jeff Poor

CNBC “Squawk Box” co-hosts Joe Kernen and Becky Quick understand public opposition to Obamacare. Unfortunately, their colleague John Harwood, who covers Washington, D.C. for the network, doesn’t.

Times Readers Revolt Against "Plantation-Style" Photos in Surrogacy Article

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:50:00 +0000

Readers didn't appreciate the rich woman/poor servant feel of Times' reporter Alex Kuczynski's article on hiring a surrogate to bear her child.

Clay Waters

Sometimes the Times' Manhattan-centric elitism is so glaringly obvious even its well-heeled readership flinches. Public Editor Clark Hoyt tackled public backlash to last week's Sunday's magazine cover story on surrogacy by Alex Kuczynski in his latest Sunday Week in Review column.

John McCain, Candidate of Privilege?

admin — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:02:00 +0000

"John S. McCain III, United States Naval Academy '58, the son and grandson of admirals and the husband of one of the richer women in Arizona, chases after the conservative, anti-elite religious base of the Republican Party, and prefers to talk about the 'cabin' at his Sedona weekend retreat rather than the Phoenix home lushly featured in the pages of Architectural Digest in 2005."

Clay Waters

Washington reporter Elisabeth Bumiller's lead story for Sunday's Week in Review, "The Snare of Privilege," questioned why "elitism" is a dirty word in American politics - and made a decent case as to why "The New York Times" remains one in Republican circles.

Maureen Dowd Massacres Obama's "Elitism"

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:30:00 +0000

Maureen Dowd: "Behind closed doors in San Francisco, elitism's epicenter, Barack Obama showed his elitism, attributing the emotional, spiritual and cultural values of working-class, 'lunch pail' Pennsylvanians to economic woes."

Clay Waters

Now this is a pleasant surprise - Maureen Dowd's "Eggheads And Cheeseballs," a mediation on Obama's San Francisco gaffe in which he told a group of wealthy donors that