November 2011 Archive

News Dissector Pilot: NYTimes Headlines

In our very first NYT eXaminer News Dissector spot, Danny Schechter un-spins select stories from the day’s New York Times. Danny Schechter is a journalist, author, ...

David Brooks Comes Out for the Middle Position on Fracking: Drill, Baby ,Drill

By Dean Baker: As a deep thinker, David Brooks always takes the middle positions between the extremes of the left and the right. We know it ...

Re “Israel and the Apartheid Slander”

From John Dugard: To the Editor: Re “Israel and the Apartheid Slander,” by Richard J. Goldstone (Op-Ed, Nov. 1): Mr. Goldstone and I knew apartheid in South Africa. ...

Comment Israel, Occupied Palestine and Apartheid: A response to Richard Goldstone

By John Dugard: Earlier this week, in a New York Times op-ed, Richard Goldstone denounced those comparing Israeli state policies to apartheid South Africa. He singled ...

NYT Invents a Steve Jobs Backlash

By Peter Hart: Remember how the media all turned negative on Steve Jobs so soon after his death? Me neither. But don’t tell the New York Times. Today (11/03/11) ...

Goldstone walks alone on a bridge to nowhere

By Richard Falk: The former judge who wrote the Gaza War report recently – and wrongly – wrote that Israel does not practice apartheid. Surely the New York ...