June 2012 Archive

Jimmy Carter & the US as ‘Global Champion of Human Rights’

By Kevin Gosztola: Former US president Jimmy Carter penned a column for the New York Times that was published Monday.

Apple’s Shine is Fading

By Lawrence Mishel: Apple is rapidly becoming the symbol of what’s wrong with our economy: a highly profitable enterprise where all the gains go to those ...

Concern Troll of the Day: Campbell Brown

By Kathleen Geier: Question: does the New York Times op ed page have any quality control mechanisms? At all?

Obama’s Killer Drones

By Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirer: The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected militants; the Obama administration assassinates them. Both practices not only visit more hatred ...

Anthony Shadid’s Cousin Takes a Shot at NYT — and Journalism in General

By Matt Pearce: Those who were there said the crowd gasped. Ed Shadid, the cousin of late New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, was speaking at a ...

Where the Buck Stops

By Marie Burns: Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. runs the New York Times editorial pages. The Times is still a family-run paper, and though several other family members are on the board of ...

BBC Director General in talks with New York Times Company

By Helen Robb: Mark Thompson approached by publisher of NYT and International Herald Tribune.

David Brooks Went to a Springsteen Concert, And All I Got Was A Stupid Op-Ed

By Samir Chopra: David Brooks, the man who claims to have his finger on the pulse of down-home, All-American, Middle-American, (heck, Any-Which-Way American), plain-n-simple, family-values-oriented folks ...