April 2012 Archive

Trayvon Martin and the White Pundits

By Charles P. Pierce: Bill Keller of The New York Times can count himself lucky. By deciding that the shooting of Trayvon Martin, for the crime of possessing ...

The New York Times Endorses NYU 2031, We Found A Few Things Wrong With That

By Zoë Schlanger: “New York University’s 44,000 students and 16,000-plus employees need more space.” So opens the New York Times’ recent endorsement of NYU’s 2031 plan to add 2.5 million square feet within the two “superblocks” just south of Washington Square over the next 19 years - plus another 3.5 million square feet elsewher.

Speaking Ill of the Dead – David Brooks on Charles Snelling

By Marie Burns: David Brooks has an uncanny talent for being wrong. His New York Times column today is no exception, though in this column his clueless moralizing will likely ...

NYT Op-Ed Gets Central Africa Right

By Michael McGehee: In “State Impunity in Central Africa,” an op-ed written by Phil Clark, who the Times says is “a lecturer in comparative and international politics ...

Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking, Drones, and FBI Surveillance

By Trevor Trimm: Over the weekend, the ACLU released an exhaustive study of state and local law enforcement’s surveillance practices in regards to how often police forces are tracking citizens’ movements through their cell phones.

Hana Shalabi: Not Quite Free at Last

By Stephen Lendman: After ignoring her entire hunger striking ordeal, her lawless detention, and weeks of Israeli ruthlessness, The New York Times finally acknowledged she exists, ...

New Media Outlets Should Demand Accountability From New York Times

By Michael Hoffman: The New York Times’ influence on American journalism has been unmatched for the past century. The newspaper still shapes the national news agenda ...

Adventures in Bank Regulation: How Slow Are the Employees at Monadnock Community Bank?

By Dean Baker: That’s undoubtedly what NYT readers were asking after reading a piece saying that banks are fleeing federal regulators in order to avoid the excessive burden. ...