September 2011 Archive

New York Times Runs PR for Bank of America’s Headcount-Cutting Profiteers

By Yves Smith: It might behoove a publication that styles itself as the newspaper of record to do some basic fact checking rather than take dictation from ...

Conflict in Israel? A problematic speaking deal at The New York Times

By Max Blumenthal: Running the Jerusalem bureau for The New York Times is a tough job in a hypersensitive area, one that attracts more than its share of ...

Another Misguided ‘Mini-Culpa’ from Bill Keller of NYT on Backing Iraq War

By Greg Mitchell: Bill Keller, the top editor at the New York Timessince July 2003, has penned a lengthy piece for this Sunday’s Times Magazine, which was launched online early ...

How a Famous ‘NYT’ Reporter Led the Media Cover-Up of Radiation Dangers

By Greg Mitchell: William L. Laurence earned the nickname “Atomic Bill” several times over. As I’ve explored here in the past, he was Pulitizer-winning New York Times science ...

Five Pieces of Advice For Jill Abramson

By Hamilton Nolan: Today is Jill Abramson’s first official day as the editor of The New York Times. Congratulations, Jill. We, the faceless Cheeto-eating bloggers of America, lovehate ...

Why Is NYT’s Dealbook Blog Defending SEC Misdeeds?

By Matt Taibbi: From the moment I first heard about the SEC’s 17-year history of document-shredding, I started wondering what defense the agency would eventually offer. ...

NYT on WikiLeaks: Move Along, No Atrocity to See Here

By Peter Hart: One of the main media tropes regarding WikiLeaks‘ release of State Department cables last year was that there was either nothing new to be ...

The (actual) future of the Big Idea

By Megan Garber Neal Gabler’s New York Times piece gets something wrong: Big ideas don’t need big media. The critics are right: Neal Gabler’s essayin yesterday’s New York Times ...