December 2011 Archive

Spot the Differences: New York Times on Russia and Occupy

By Jérôme E. Roos: When 5,000 liberals protest in Moscow, it’s front page news; but when 15,000 radicals rally in New York, they simply pretend it ...

‘You Should Apologize for Saying You Had Cancer (Because The New York Times Says it Probably Wasn’t Cancer)’

By Laura Zigman: There was a piece recently in the New York Times about cancer. This, in and of itself, isn't unusual, since there are many pieces in the New York Times about cancer. What was unusual was what the piece suggested...

NYPD Officers Post Blatantly Racist Hate Speech on Facebook

By Jorge Rivas: The New York Times has obtained a 76-page document made up of mostly racist comments that were posted on a Facebook group created for ...

Things Are So Bad in Japan That it Suffers from Both Too Many and Too Few People

By Dean Baker: The media regularly gives us stories about the impending demographic disaster in Japan because of its low birth rate and declining population. Today, ...

An Open Letter to a Hedge Fund Billionaire

By Marie Burns: Leon Cooperman, billionaire hedge fund manager and Goldman Sachs veteran, has had quite a week. Last Wednesday, as Andrew Ross Sorkin of the ...

Deconstructing Thomas Friedman

By Sandra Siagian: (IPS) – A new book on the influential New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sets out to debunk his hawkish, neoliberal views, accusing ...