May 2012 Archive

NATO Summit

Danny Schechter un-spins select stories from the day’s New York Times for his NYTX News Dissector video column. In today’s report Danny discusses the Chicago NATO Summit.

What the NYT Doesn’t Say About the Lockerbie Bombing

By Michael McGehee: Robert McFadden’s article “Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60” appears in today’s New York Times print edition and reports on the 1988 ...

Why Did the Times Even Publish This Piece?

By Marie Burns: The New York Times‘ Sunday review published a guest op-ed by Campbell Brown titled, “Obama: Stop Condescending to Women.” In publishing the piece, the Times identified Brown only ...

Ezekiel Emmanuel Doesn’t Like Social Security and Medicare

By Dean Baker: That is what he told us in his New York Times column that was ostensibly about out of control Social Security and Medicare spending. Emmanuel ...

Conservative Media Begin Campaign To Distance GOP Billionaire From Incendiary Wright Ad

By Shauna Theel: On ABC’s This Week, George Will and Laura Ingraham engaged in a bit of revisionism to try to distance conservative billionaire Joe Ricketts from ...

Thomas Friedman Presents Evidence of a Skills Mismatch in His NYT Column

By Dean Baker: Thomas Friedman did his usual Sunday morning stretch, waxing eloquently on a new era in: “in which to be a president, a governor, a mayor or ...

What is Failing Miserably? New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman’s Embarrassing Performance on Celebrity Jeopardy!

By The Daily Mail: I’ll take Celebrity Jeopardy! for  $500, Alex. Despite three Pulitzer Prizes and six best-selling books, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman did this ...

Campbell Brown, Wife Of Top Romney Adviser, Says Obama Is ‘Condescending’ To Women

By Ali Gharib: In [Sunday's] New York Times, former cable news anchor Campbell Brown attacks President Obama for “condescending” to women with a “paternalistic,” “fake,” and ...