November 2011 Archive

New York Times Headlines November 22

Danny Schechter the News Dissector un-spins select stories from the today’s New York Times.

What I Hate about the Mandate Debate

By Jane Prettyman: Let’s not throw out the public mandate — a key to single payer — with the bathwater of the private commercial mandate. On Nov ...

The Two-Moon Lunacy of David Brooks

By Marie Burns: Today we have David Brooks at his bipartisan, both-sides-do-it, reasonable, fair-minded best. We are not supposed to notice that his entire column in ...

German Concerns About the Euro’s Credibility Do Not Make Sense

By Dean Baker: The NYT should have pointed this fact out in a discussion of the crisis facing the euro zone. The article includes a quote from Wolfgang ...

What’s Fit to Print? The Mainstream Media’s Misguided Obsession With “Objectivity”

By Bhaskar Sunkara: Our only media options these days are dry, manufactured consensus and unenlightening, screaming idiocy. The battle lines couldn’t appear more sharply drawn: Fox News ...