NYT FACT CHECK

How the New York Times Hides the Truth About Wall Street’s Catastrophic Misdeeds

July 5, 2012   ·   0 Comments

By Pam Martens: The paper of record is in serious need of a fact checker when it comes to whether the Glass-Steagall Act could have prevented ...

David Brooks, Self-Doubt and Self-Confidence

By Dean Baker: David Brooks lectures us this morning on the need to have a balance between self-doubt and self-confidence. “Western democratic systems were based on a balance between ...

Journalism 101 Comes to the New York Times

By Marie Burns: I have been highly critical of the New York Times and other news outlets for their stenographic approach to journalism: their copying out of political ...

Fact Checker Fact Checker Find Me A Fact

By Philip Weiss: The phones must have been ringing off the hook yesterday at the New York Times. For many readers of the paper of record were ...

We Don’t Need Truth Vigilantes

By Joan Walsh: But we do need good political reporting, and the media’s rote repetition of Santorum’s JFK lies fell short New York Times public editor Arthur ...

Revisionist History at the New York Times — How a Fact Becomes an Anonymous Accusation

By Marie Burns: Maybe I shouldn’t sweat the small stuff. Yet small stuff has consequences, too. In this case, the small stuff is five little words. You ...

New York Times Reporter Finds a Story He Likes — Never Mind the Facts

By Steve M.: You might not be seeing a lot of evidence of this yet, but there’s a very strong likelihood that, as the year progresses, ...

Journalist as Participant

When does a journalist stop being a citizen? Coverage of the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Arab Spring have recently highlighted this ethical dilemma, ...

He Said/He Said – Fact-Free Reporting at the New York Times

By Marie Burns: Four New York Times reporters worked on yesterday’s front-page story about Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich “trading jabs” as they geared up for ...

The Old Gray Lady Ain’t What She Used to Be

By Dana Mittenbacher: In the fall of 1997, at the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed age of 17, I started journalism school and learned the role of the news media in society, or so I thought. It went a bit like this...

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