November 2011 Archive

Media Silence on Guantánamo Bay

By Michael McGehee: The British press is extremely centralized, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on ...

New York Times Headlines November 17

Danny Schechter the News Dissector un-spins select stories from the day’s New York Times. Times content discussed in this report are listed here by their online ...

Is the New York Times Misleading on Thailand’s Recent History?

By Andrew Spooner: The Bangkok-based Thomas Fuller has just written a piece for the New York Times on the possible pardon of former Thai PM, Thaksin Shinawatra. In the ...

Thomas Friedman Needs Someone To Help Him Access Widely Available Facts About Politics

By Jason Linkins: Would it be too much to ask for someone — perhaps one of his New York Times colleagues — to give famously airheaded columnist Thomas ...

Another War on Gaza “Drawing Closer”

By Michael McGehee: As to be expected, Isabel Kershner’s recent article “Israeli Army May Need to Hit Gaza, General Says” was the typical propaganda one comes ...

New York Times Editors Fall for Tom Coburn’s Subsidy Subterfuge

By Marie Burns: In an editorial in today’s New York Times the editors praise a new report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) titled “Subsidies of ...