May 2012 Archive

The Human Disaster of Unemployment – NYTimes.com

By Dean Baker and Kevin Hassett: THE American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs. In 2007, before the ...

Mass Anti-Austerity Protests Sweep Through Spain — RT

By RT: At least 100,000 protesters angered by the country’s grim economic prospects turned out for street demonstrations in 80 cities across Spain. This marked the ...

New York Times Reporters Embrace the Berlin Consensus and Ignore Krugman and Economics

By William K. Black: The New York Times’ coverage of the euro zone crisis continues to exhibit two related flaws.  First, it is overwhelmingly written from the German ...

Why Is The New York Times Enabling A U.S. Government Smear Campaign Against Reporters Exposing The Drone Wars?

By John Hanrahan: The Times let government officials anonymously attack a group of journalists and a lawyer who have uncovered evidence that belies the White House's claim that drones aren't killing many civilians. Was their rationale for that justified?

You’re Entitled to Your Own Opinion….

By Marie Burns: On a day when the New York Times Sunday Review boasted a number of provocative guest opinion pieces and even Tom Friedman wrote a column ...

Inside The New York Times’ Stunning Photo Archive, the ‘Lively Morgue’

By Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg: An original documentary produced by Tumblr interviews the archivists and curators of the newspaper’s century-old collection of photos. The archive, known as the ...