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‘NYT’ Publishes Spiritual Guidance from Ahava Exec– Without Saying Ahava Works in a Settlement

February 15, 2013   ·   0 Comments

By Philip Weiss: Every week The New York Times business page runs a "Frequent Flier" profile of a busy traveler.

Believe Nothing

By Arthur Silber: The Times includes the fact that "there is no applause at the end of a Parsifal performance" to underscore the article's point that Wagner...

The New York Times Thinks Male Magazine Founders Are Intellectuals But Their Female Peers Are Fashionistas

By Katie J.M. Baker: Congratulations to relatively new “intellectual magazines” The New Inquiry and Jacobin: the New York Times thinks you’re both worthy of coverage! Well, not equally so. The 20-something ...

The New York Times’s Little Censorship Problem

By Lisa Simeone: The New York Times has a travel blog called “In Transit.” On Thursday, January 3, 2013 the blog published a post called “Keep Your ...

Here’s The New York Times’ Response to the Ken Johnson Petition

By Michael H. Miller: The writers of an open letter to The New York Times regarding two recent pieces by Ken Johnson have received a response from the paper’s culture editor, Jonathan Landman.

Now Dig This: The Ken Johnson Kerfuffle.

By Carolina A. Miranda: Last month, Ken Johnson, an independent writer who serves as an art critic for the New York Times, published a review of Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-80, on view at MoMA PS1. The piece was critical of the show on a number of points, most notably that many of the works promoted a racial solidarity that could be alienating to white viewers. There are also some very uncomfortable paragraphs about the ways in which Black artists have employed the medium of assemblage...

Petition Calls Out NYT Art Critic for Racist and Sexist Framing

By Jorge Rivas: A new petition is demanding the New York Times “acknowledge and address” a Times art critic’s recent reviews that have compared women and black artists ...

In Defense of Irony

By Alexandra Brodsky: Christy Wampole wants us to live without irony. In her weekend essay for the New York Times’ Opinionator section, the Princeton lit professor encourages all of us—not just ...

All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page

By Jerelle Kraus: In 1970, the New York Times launched the world’s first Op-Ed page, a groundbreaking phenomenon that transformed journalism and – by providing a platform for anyone with an opinion – prefigured, by decades, the Internet’s blogosphere.

The New York Times Kosher Los Angeles Article Is…Wrong

By Rob Eshman: There are about 70 kosher restaurants in Los Angeles. The New York Times article on kosher dining in Los Angeles mentions four of them. Why?

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