April 2012 Archive

Report on Iran’s Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History

By Gareth Porter: The Barack Obama administration's new interest in the 2004 religious verdict, or "fatwa", by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning the possession of nuclear weapons, long dismissed by national security officials, has prompted the New York Times to review the significance of the fatwa for the first time in several years.

Attacks On RT And Assange Reveal Much About The Critics

By Glenn Greenwald: A new news show hosted by Julian Assange debuted yesterday on RT, the global media outlet funded by the Russian government and carried ...

The New York Times Company in 2015

By Ryan Chittum: Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? That’s unknowable, of course. A lot can happen between now and ...

Guild Members Speak: The Value of Our Pension and What’s at Risk

A few weeks ago, the Guild asked a number of the paper’s journalists to sit down and talk on video about the negotiations, the issues important to them, how they feel about working at the Times, and so on.

Thomas Friedman’s Bad Habits

By Steve Benen: If New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman hoped to get people talking with his column today, it was a sterling success – I’ve lost count of how many ...

Thomas Friedman Spoofs Himself In What I’m Guessing Is An Epic Work Of Adventurous Satire

By Jason Linkins: Lord knows that I’m no stranger to criticism of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, having written some myself. But yesterday, after blogger Duncan Black labeled Friedman ...

Misguided Scheme from NYT’s Friedman

By Robert Parry: New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, who once dubbed himself a “Tony Blair Democrat,” is now a “Mike Bloomberg Independent,” as he ...

The One True Wanker of The Decade: Tom Friedman

By Duncan Black: Friedman possesses all of the qualities that make a pundit truly wankerific. He fetishizes a false “centrism” which is basically whatever Tom Friedman ...