January 2012 Archive

Mitt Romney, the New York Times’ Favorite Candidate

By Marie Burns: If you read the New York Times print edition today, you just may think GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a jolly, politically-independent ...

How Americans Really Feel About Drugs

By David Sirota: A NYT op-ed uses “moderate” double-speak to deny the truth: Most people want marijuana legalized. Almost exactly eight years ago, I wrote an essay for the ...

The New York Times Highlights ACLU’s Religious Freedom Work in Public Schools

By Robyn Shepherd: Contrary to what you might see elsewhere on the Internet, the ACLU is not trying to eliminate religion from public schools. Students are ...

What the Times’ Organic Tomato Story Missed: Golf Courses

By Tom Laskawy: A recent New York Times article about organic tomatoes grown in the Los Cabos region of Baja California raised the question about whether “large-scale” export-oriented organic agriculture ...

Trivializing the anti-Semitism Charge

By Philip Weiss: Recently we picked up Netanyahu’s refusal to write an Op-Ed for the New York Times– his aide Ron Dermer said the paper’s columnists “cavalierly defame ...