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Hard-Left PBS Vet Bill Moyers Returns, to Fulsome Praise from the Times

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Reporter Elizabeth Jensen's fulsome tribute to lefty public TV sage Bill Moyers: "...much will carry over from the old program, including Mr. Moyers's thoughtful interviews with thinkers who wouldn't otherwise get much television face time and a focus on the country's most pressing political and economic questions....a longtime target of some conservatives."

Clay Waters

Reporter Elizabeth Jensen paid tribute to hard-left public television host for life Bill Moyers in the Sunday Arts & Leisure, under the fulsome headline 'He's Back, Just as Curious as Ever.'

NY Times Profiles New NPR CEO With Only Lefties, Skips Over Soros and Video Stings

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:39:00 +0000

From inside the NPR tank, Elizabeth Jensen reported on new National Public Radio chief executive Gary Knell without devoting one word to conservative NPR critics in a piece loaded with public-broadcasting officialdom.

Tim Graham

New York Times media reporter Elizabeth Jensen reported on new National Public Radio chief executive Gary Knell on Monday without devoting one word to conservative NPR critics in a piece loaded with public-broadcasting officialdom. The Times is clearly reporting from inside the NPR tank.

Fareed Zakaria: 'Centrist Voice' and 'Spokesman for a Post-American World'?

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:32:00 +0000

From the insular liberal media world, David Carr reported that the "centrist voice" of Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria was jumping to Time magazine - even as Zakaria feistily returned a prize to the Anti-Defamation League in support of the Ground Zero mosque effort.

Tim Graham

The Times is remarkably insular when it covers its own friends and colleagues in the liberal media. Consider Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria's defection to Time magazine.

The Times Salutes Bill Moyers, Hard-Left 'Lion of PBS,' Finds Few Critics

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:52:00 +0000

The paper's usual labeling imbalance was on display in how it treated left-wing vs right-wing critics of PBS.

Clay Waters

Two Times stories related to the (perhaps temporary) retirement of PBS's left-wing sage Bill Moyers both soft-pedaled the host's weekly attacks on business and government issued from his money-lined, taxpayer-funded PBS perch.

Elizabeth Jensen's contribution to the Sunday Arts page asked a question perhaps only the Times' liberal readership is asking: "How, Exactly, Do You Follow Bill Moyers?"