November 2011 Archive

Mayor Michael Bloomberg Evicts Occupied Zuccotti Park, In Contempt of Court Order: Reviewing Times Coverage

By Chris Spannos: According to the Times, Mr. Bloomberg said that “the city had planned to reopen the park on Tuesday morning after the protesters’ tents and tarps had been removed and the stone steps had been cleaned.”

Fear: American style

By Corey Robin: Americans have historically stood up to coercion – and the OWS movement might be the latest incarnation of resistance. Several Fridays ago, I attended ...

Comment on David Brooks’ “Let’s All Feel Superior”

By Marie Burns: If you think you're better than Joe Paterno, you're vain. So says David Brooks in a recent New York Times op-ed section, who turns to science and history to explain away Penn State head coach Joe Paterno's failure to stop one of his coaches, Jerry Sandusky, from serially raping young boys.

Martha Raddatz, Insider War Correspondent

By Peter Hart: The New York Times had a Sunday Style section profile of ABC Pentagon correspondent Martha Raddatz that started off on a bad note--only to get much worse.

Austerity Measures and ‘The economics of subfascism’

By Michael McGehee: Despite the fact that the New York Times (NYT) doesn’t seem capable of discussing the roots of Europe’s debt crisis—or that of the U.S.—it ...