December 2011 Archive

Marginalizing Ron Paul

By Robert Scheer: It is official now. The Ron Paul campaign, despite surging in the Iowa polls, is not worthy of serious consideration, according to a ...

Loyal and Persistent Opposition

By Robert Birnbaum: Journalist Belen Fernandez’s new opus Imperial Messenger effectively eviscerating the NYT’s Thomas Friedman strikes me as an example of the kind of book that...

New York Times Headlines December 30

Danny Schechter un-spins select stories from the day’s New York Times for his NYTX News Dissector video column. Today's report focuses on media discussion of the Iowa caucuses and presidential candidates.

“We Owe It to Ourselves” – Krugman v. Brooks

By Marie Burns: On Tuesday, Paul Krugman wrote in a New York Times blogpost, “A number of people have asked me to weigh in on ...

When Companies Write Off Stock Options Is It an Unfair Tax Break?

By Dean Baker: The NYT had an interesting piece on a provision in the tax code that allows companies to write off the value of exercised options as ...

Discouraged by the “Womancession,” Young Women Are Going Back to School in Droves

By Lauren Kelley: In case you haven’t heard, women have been getting the economic shaft lately. While it’s true that this economy has been bad for ...

Imperial Messenger – Book Review

By Jim Miles: Thomas Friedman is a writer whom I have avoided reading over the past several years, mainly due to my distinct disdain for his writing and his thinking. It was therefore very good to be able to read “Imperial Messenger”...

Are New York Times Reporters “Lazy Journalists” and “Indolent Hacks”?

By Marie Burns: Did the New York Times publish a “lazy rewrite” of a 2008 Reason magazine story?

When it Rains, it Pours: The New York Times Fumbles into the New Year

By Chris Spannos: The New York Times has experienced a dramatic series of changes closing out this year and that seem to cast the shadow of instability over ...

End Times? New York Times goes under microscope in book by Dan Schwarz

By Ann Marie Martin: The New York Times is Dan Schwarz’s newspaper. It belongs to him not because he’s its publisher, editor or reporter. He’s one of ...

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