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A Story About Nothing
By Costas Panayotakis: A headline on the front page of the Business section of the New York Times recently caught my attention. Announcing a story in ...
The New York Times on Venezuela and Honduras: A Case of Journalistic Misconduct
By Keane Bhatt: The day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died, New York Times reporter Lizette Alvarez...
What the NYT Doesn’t Say About Washington’s Syrian Peace Plan
By Michael McGehee: On page A12 of the May 8, 2013 edition of The New York Times is Steven Lee Myers and Rick Gladstone's article “U.S. and Russia Plan Conference Aimed at Ending Syrian War”...
No Reward for Being Right on Iraq
By John R. MacArthur: Where were the voices of conscience on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War? What’s the use of being right, in journalism or ...
The Boston Bombers: Unpacking the Terrorist Threat
By Daniel Warner: The recent bombings in Boston have unleashed a torrent of commentaries. While investigations are ongoing concerning the backgrounds of the suspects with no ...
Obama’s War on the Media
By Michael McGehee: The front page of the May 14, 2013 edition of The New York Times says, “Phone Records of Journalists of The Associated Press ...
NYT and Their Bizarre Argument for Tyrannicide
By Michael McGehee: One page SR3 of Monday’s The New York Times is a peculiar opinion piece by Feisal G. Mohamed...
The Wrong ‘Red Line’
By Richard Falk: There are widespread reports that President Obama had not fully appreciated the political consequences...
Israel Bombs Syria Becomes Israel Is Only Defending Itself
By Danny Schechter: An Israeli plane bombs a target in Syria. The news is passed along first to Fox News, (huh?) by someone in the Administration. It ...
Pushing for War with Syria
By Robert Parry: Israel’s bombing raids into Syria appear to have shattered whatever restraint remained in Official Washington toward the United States entering the civil war on the side of rebel forces that include radical jihadist elements.
Reinhart and Rogoff Are Not Being Straight
By Dean Baker: Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, used their second NYT column in a week, to complain about how they are being treated.
Reichstag Smoke and Mirrors in Boston
By Matthew Stevenson: Although the facts from the ground in Massachusetts suggest that the bombs were set off in the spirit of anarchic violence—as explosives have ...
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What the NYT Doesn’t Say About Washington’s Syrian Peace Plan
By Michael McGehee: On page A12 of the May 8, 2013 edition of The New York Times is Steven Lee Myers and Rick Gladstone's article “U.S. and Russia Plan Conference Aimed at Ending Syrian War”...
- NYT’s Lopsided Coverage of the Korean Conflict
- How Obama Chose War Over Peace in Syria
- King Abdullah II of Jordan, World Statesman?
- Israel to Obama: Be Gentle With Me
- The Iraq War: Learning Lessons, Ignoring History
- Sins of Omission
- Ten Years After: America’s Lethal Legacy in Iraq
- Is an “Expert” Someone Who Is Surprised by Developments in Their Area of Expertise?
- The Counter-Terrorism Diversion Drones, Africa and the Decline of American Power
- Times Profiles Michael Goldfarb: A Rightist Liar & Bomb Thrower Who Is Just Doing It For Israel
The Eurocrats’ Response
By Costas Panayotakis: The disastrous handling of the current crisis by the European political and economic elites explains why Europe’s attempt to recover from the crisis ...
Condemned in Advance: The Times Paints a Bleak Picture of Venezuela’s Future
By Jason Hirthler: If you went to The New York Times for even-handed coverage of the Venezuelan election this past Sunday, you were out of luck.
U.S.
The CUNY Chancellor and His Standards
By Costas Panayotakis: On April 13, Ariel Kaminer’s “Longtime CUNY Chancellor to Step Down After Pushing Higher Standards” reported on Matthew Goldstein’s decision to step down as chancellor of the City University of New York...
- A Militarized Society: America’s Death Wish
- Nevermind: Headline of Correction for NYT Piece on Projected Cost of Dementia
- A Curious New York Times Article on Teacher Evaluations
- NYT Coverage of Looming Military Spending Cuts
- Margaret Sullivan, an Ombud Who Cares
- James Goodale: It’s a Bad Time for Press Freedoms
- Bill Keller Doesn’t Understand Junior High School Civics
- The Court Erects a Barrier Against Civil Liberties Politicization of Justice
- How to Turn an Apology into a Presidential Indictment
- David Brooks, Obama Plan Birther, Repents!
- When False Claims Drive the Debate
- White House Slams Brooks
- Obama to Give Information on Benghazi to Republicans to Avoid Sharing Drone Memos with Senators
- When You’re Cutting Social Security, ‘Wealthy’ Begins at $25K
- Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow
- Chuck Hagel, Strategic Thinker
- Using Deceptive Numbers on Health Care in the NYT
- Deficit Hawks Reboot
- The Journalist and the Politician
- The Status Quo Miracle District
- Glorifying the Chris Kyle Story: No More Truthless Heroes
- Union City’s Schools are on the March!
BUSINESS
Thomas Friedman Again Demonstrates the Skills Shortage for NYT Pundits
By Dean Baker: The NYT has difficulty finding pundits who can write knowledgeably about economics. Thomas Friedman made this point...
- Why Does No One Speak of America’s Oligarchs?
- The ‘Populists’ and the ‘Experts’
- Steven Davidoff Doesn’t Consider the Successful 300 Years of Financial Transactions Taxes In London
- Tom Friedman’s Apple Hunch
- NYT Finds Economists Without Names to Criticize Japan’s Plans for Stimulus and Promote “Free-Trade” Agreement
- To Educate a Cab Driver, Educate Thomas Friedman Campaign
- Why Does the NYT Abandon Journalistic Standards to Promote the Obama Administration’s Trade Agenda?
- Currency Values Are Not Determined by the Market When Central Banks Buy Currencies
- Millionaires Are–or Perhaps Aren’t–Leaving California
- NYT and WAPO Can’t Find Out About Franken Amendment on Bond Rating Agencies
Warning: Wealth Comparisons by Age Group Through Time Are Bogus!
By Dean Baker: The NYT commits the common sin of making such comparisons in an otherwise useful piece on the economic plight of millennials. It tells us: “The average ...
The NY Times Calls Third Way “Center-Left” and Turns a Study on its Head
By William K. Black: Some lies will not die. As I have demonstrated repeatedly, Third Way is Wall Street on the Potomac.
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left
By Kevin Young: U.S. journalists and commentators have helped popularize the image of two distinct Latin American lefts...
- Don’t Cry for the Republicans, Paul Krugman!
- Paul Krugman Discovers Marx (and Misses the Point)
- The Times They May be Changing
- Hot Air Capitalism
- NYT on ‘Class Imbalance’ in Politics
- Their Economic Health and Ours
- Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ
- On Europe’s Failure
- What’s ‘Fit’ to Read About Greece
- The Gate Keeper: Part 4 of 4
What’s up with the New York Times
By Workers World: When a New York Times lead editorial is titled “More Jobs, Higher Pay” (Feb. 5) you have to wonder. The editorial called for ...
Latvia’s Economic Disaster as a Neoliberal Success Story: A Model for Europe and the US?
By Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson: A generation ago the Chicago Boys and their financial supporters applauded General Pinochet’s anti-labor Chile as a success story...
LETTERS TO NYT
Bill Keller’s “Syria is Not Iraq”
From Murray Polner: Bill Keller’s simplistic “Syria is Not Iraq” (Times 0p Ed, May 6th) touches only lightly on his “reluctant hawk” role...
- Letter from Abraham Foxman
- Remaking Motor City
- The Nuclear Threat
- RE: The Open Letter by Abraham Foxman on Academic Freedom and University Responsibility; New York Times, February 8, 2013
- Desmond Tutu Blasts US Drones: American or Not, All Victims Are Human
- Iran Stalling for Time?
- Subject: George Bisharat on Israel before the ICC
- Raised on Hatred
- Responding to New York Times Public Editor’s Smear Against Me
- An Open Letter to a NYT Magazine Hack
- Re: Europe’s New Fascists
- Re: How Obama Lost the European Primary
- The New York Times Got It Wrong With The Tar Sands Blockade
- Regarding “Fears Persist Among Venezuelan Voters Ahead of Election”
- Huffington Post and Global Markets
- An Open Letter To The New CEO
- Re: The Folly of Attacking Outsourcing
- Stay the Hand of Computer Trading
- Is Algebra Necessary?
- Re: The One-Secular-State Solution
- David Brooks Needs a Fact-Checker
- Camelot in the Provence
ENVIRONMENT
Public Editor Slams NY Times Tesla Story, After Overcoming ‘Confirmation Bias’
By Joe Romm: The verdict would appear to be in on the great road rage (range rage?) feud of 2013. Elon Musk, the CEO of electric vehicle ...
- James Hansen Slams Joe Nocera For Failure To ‘Understand Basic Economics’ And Selective Quotation
- Are Dumb Foreign Policies Holding Us Back On Addressing Climate Change?
- A Most Peculiar Test Drive
- Concern Remains as NY Times Downplays Significance of Environment Desk Closure
- NYT Leaves Readers High and Dry on Causes of Mississippi Drought
- The Heat is on as the New York Times Closes its Environment Desk
- New York Times Widely Criticized For Dismantling Its Environment Desk, Eliminating Editorial Positions
- As Climate Crisis Grows Urgent, New York Times Shutters ‘Environment Desk’
- What Does Biofuel Have to Do With the Price of Tortillas in Guatemala?
- What Does The Fiscal Cliff Debacle Say About Our Chances To Avoid The Far More Worrisome Climate Cliff?
- New York Times Pushes Obama On Climate: ‘He Needs To Do A Great Deal More Than…Foster A Conversation’
- Fracking’s Lure, Trap and Endless Damage
- NY Times Warns On Climate Change: ‘Fear Death By Water’, Rising Seas Likely To Swallow Up City If We Don’t Act Soon
- New York Times Slams Obama For ‘Lame’ Flip-Flop On Economic Benefit Of Climate Action
- Would the NYT Allow Oped Columnists to Blame Global Warming on Social Security?
- Hot Air Capitalism
- Stubborn Treehouse Blockade of Pipeline
- Hot Air from David Brooks on Clean Energy and Global Warming
- David Brooks Is No Green Truth Vigilante
- Police Paid by TransCanada Detain New York Times Journalists on Private Property
- NY Times: Funding For Fusion ‘Better Spent On Renewable Sources Of Energy That Are Likely To Be Cheaper And Quicker’
- New York Times Story Bizarrely Downplays Impact of Ocean Acidification
GENDER & SEXUALITY
Are Better Work-Life Policies the Key to Gender Equality?
By Maya: The always-brilliant Stephanie Coontz thinks so. In an op-ed in the New York Times this weekend, she argues that gender equality in the US has stalled ...
- On Transgender Healthcare, NYT Reports Tree, Ignores Forest
- The Heart IS a Lonely Hunter: Making It Right
- New York Times Revises Ed Koch Obit To Include AIDS
- A Girl Reads the New York Times: Why Are All the Front-Page Articles By Men?
- The New York Times Thinks Male Magazine Founders Are Intellectuals But Their Female Peers Are Fashionistas
- Cultural Traditions that Oppress Women are not Worth Preserving
- The High Price of Being Single in America
- Technology Killed Courtship. Good Riddance.
- Bean-Counters of the World, Unite!
- Their Rape and Ours at the NYT
- For Some Reason, the New York Times Published a Story on Non-Married Spouses Who Call Each Other Things Like ‘Fusband’
- How Anonymous Hacking Exposed Steubenville High School Rape Case
- Dear New York Times: Women Curse
- Also, My Wife’s Morning Breath Smells Like Cinnamon Buns
- Advice for Women Seeking Equal Pay: Smile
- NY Times Suggests It’s Pointless to Report Rape in Haiti, Ignoring Serious Efforts to Protect Women
- Family Isn’t Dead – It’s Getting Better
- Here’s The New York Times’ Response to the Ken Johnson Petition
- Go to Your Womb, Ross Douthat
- Ross Douthat Explains Himself
- We Can’t All Be Royals
- First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes the Long Slog