October 2011 Archive

Richard Falk on The Middle East & New York Times Pt. 1

Preeti Kaur interviews Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and NYTX Advisory Council member, about the Middle ...

Julian Assange on The New York Times: Part 2

Special Fundraising Offer: Donate to receive a remastered version of this series. A multipart interview with WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange focusing on his experience collaberating with the ...

Bill Keller (Part II) On WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

By Howard Friel: How might one explain the following paradoxical conduct of the New York Times? The Times endorses Bill Clinton for president of the United ...

Thomas Friedman, Bard of the 1 Percent, Reports on the Problem of Incompetent CEOs

By Dean Baker: (10/15/2011) – After referring to David Brooks as the “Bard of the 1 Percent,” I was assaulted with a barrage of threatening letters and phone calls ...

Let Them Eat Keller

By Robert Scheer: Funny, he doesn’t look like Marie Antoinette. But when former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller asks his readers if they are “bored by ...

Steve Rattner Gets It Wrong on Globalization in the NYT

By Dean Baker: (10/16/2011) — Wall Street financier Steve Rattner gets just about everything wrong on globalization in a column in the NYT yesterday. He argues that the ...