November 2011 Archive

Read All About It! Get Your New York Times Here! – Bill Keller, Newsboy

By Marie Burns: To supplement his New York Times op-ed column, former Times executive editor Bill Keller has added a feedback blog to engage in “exchanges ...

The Victims the NYT Editors Forgot

By Glenn Greenwald: The New York Times Editors chime in on the border killing of two dozen Pakistani soldiers by the U.S., and offer up a formulaic both-sides-have-some-explaining-to-do sermon.

Pinkwashing, 2008-2011: Obituary for a Hasbara Strategy

By Benjamin Doherty: Sarah Schulman’s New York Times op-ed Israel and ‘Pinkwashing’ outs Israel’s gay marketing plan that activists have termed “pinkwashing” and consistently sought to resist and expose. The basic idea ...

Housing Arithmetic for the New York Times

By Dean Baker: Okay boys and girls, today’s lesson is in arithmetic. Arithmetic is very important if we want to do economics. If we don’t know ...

New York Times Headlines November 29

Danny Schechter the News Dissector un-spins select stories from the today’s New York Times. Today’s report addresses “Black Friday.” Danny Schechter is a journalist, author, television producer ...

Cablegate One Year Later: How WikiLeaks Has Influenced Foreign Policy, Journalism, and the First Amendment

By Trevor Timm: One year ago, WikiLeaks started publishing a trove of over 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department cables, which have since formed the basis of reporting for newspapers around the globe. The publication has given the public a window into the inner workings of government at an unprecedented scale, and in the process, has transformed journalism in the digital age.

More Life Lessons from David Brooks

By Marie Burns: A month ago, David Brooks asked older readers to send him “life reports,” which he planned to share with New York Times readers. ...

Thomas Friedman’s Confusions

By Belén Fernández: In his most recent book, Thomas Friedman – New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, presidential adviser – says of the Iraq War that he has ‘nothing but ...

Which Side Are We On? NYT, U.S and Cluster Bombs

By Peter Hart: International efforts to ban cluster bombs fell apart late last week. If you were reading about this in the New York Times, you might have been ...

Pregnant NYT photojournalist treated with “blatant cruelty” by IDF at Gaza crossing

By Dahlia Scheindlin: News sources reported during the day on the humiliating harassment of a foreign journalist by IDF soldiers, as she tried to enter Israel ...

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