February 2012 Archive

News Dissector Headlines: Super PACs & Greek Crisis

(Video) Danny Schechter un-spins select stories from the day’s New York Times for his NYTX News Dissector Column. Today’s report focuses on media discussion of the Super PACs and the financial crisis in Greece.

New York Times Attempts Damage Control on U.S. Koran Burning

By Michael McGeehee: The ever faithful servant to the American Empire, the so-called “paper of record,” provided its usual service today. As violent protests over the burning ...

Meet the New York Times’ New Israel-Palestine News Chief

By Alison Weir: Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine, is known for his frequent condemnations of Israeli violence against Palestinians. He is labeled “pro-Palestinian” for ...

Is Intolerance Tolerable? Stanley Fish Says Yes

By Marie Burns: Stanley Fish misses Pat Buchanan. In a New York Times “Campaign Stop” post, Fish tells us why he is sorry MSNBC fired Buchanan from his job ...

Bombing Iran: A Real Headache for Israel

By Steve Rendall: Bombing Iran could be a real strain for Israel, reports Elisabeth Bumiller in the New York Times (“Iran Raid Seen as a Huge Task for Israeli Jets,” 2/19/12).  No ...

New York Times Critiques ‘Free Market’ Capitalism?

By Michael McGeehee: The New York Times ran a surprising critique of free market capitalism by Thomas Edsall this past sunday in a blog piece called ...

Krugman vs. Brooks

By Matthew Yglesias: The Times’ columnists are brawling about Charles Murray’s new book. They are both wrong. Paul Krugman and David Brooks are titans of the columnist ...

Bill Keller’s Latest Petulant Attack on Julian Assange & WikiLeaks

By Kevin Gosztola: Former New York Times executive editor and now op-ed columnist for the newspaper, Bill Keller, has renewed his feud with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. ...

Wikileaks, Government Prosecutions, Secrecy

By Jack Goldsmith: In his NYT column today, Bill Keller argues that Wikileaks “was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald, as ...

News for Joe Nocera: Things Not to Love About the Mortgage Settlement

By Dean Baker: In his column on the mortgage settlement last weekend Joe Nocera praised the fact that it would mean that more people would be able to ...