January 2012 Archive

The Housing Disaster: When Will The Fraudsters Be Punished?

Danny Schechter un-spins select stories from the day’s New York Times for his NYTX News Dissector video column. Today’s Jan 17 column focuses on the ...

The “Liberal” Media and American Foreign Policy: Why the New York Times is So Hawkish

By Gregory Harms: A recent article by Robert Naiman examines the New York Times’ current coverage of Iran’s nuclear program. In it he exposes a disappointing but unsurprising mishandling of the facts.

Sugarcoating The Lies: A New York Times Sampler

By Russ Baker: The New York Times’ “Public Editor” wonders if the paper ought to explicitly call officials on their lies. But a look at a typical day ...

Joe Nocera, Friend of Wall Street

By Marie Burns: New York Times columnist Joe Nocera has been writing about banking for years. He knows a lot more about banking than I do. ...

NYT Strikes Out in Making the Economic Case Against Hungary

By Dean Baker: Hungary is being led by a right-wing populist government that seems to have a questionable commitment to democracy. The steps it has taken ...

The Foibles of Thomas Friedman

By Max Ajl: Belén Fernández, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work. London and New York: Verso, 2011. A researcher once carried out an informal study to try ...

NYT Travel section features visit to another planet

By Philip Weiss: There’s a piece called “Lost in Jerusalem” on the front page of the NYT Travel section. The author is travel writer Matt Gross, who says ...