December 2011 Archive

New York Times Headlines: Intelligence on OWS & Kim Jong il

Danny Schechter unspins select stories from the day’s New York Times for his NYTX News Dissector Column. Today’s column focuses on U.S. intelligence efforts on ...

We Should Support Julian Assange

By James C. Goodale, counsel to the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case: Floyd Abrams speculates as to the damage caused by publication of classified information by WikiLeaks. He concludes such publication may have already cost lives...

Can the U.S. Government Close Social Media Accounts?

By Glenn Greenwald: The Obama administration and The New York Times are teaming up to expose and combat the grave threat posed by a Twitter account, purportedly operated ...

The Brooks Syllabus, Part I: The Multiverse

By Marie Burns: Every year, the Sidney Awards, named for the renowned philosopher Sidney Hook, go out to some of the best magazine essays of the ...

Katy Roberts, Jody Alesandro to Leave Times in Buyout Scheme

By Joe Pompeo: Add two more names to the list of departing New York Times newsroom employees: Katy Roberts, who’s manned a variety of high-profile posts during her ...