By Alan Caruba ~ What kind of idiot would write, “Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant […]
By Scott Whitlock ~ Never let a tragedy go to waste. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Monday quickly used the explosions in Boston for political gain, linking the Republican Party to the horrific act. At 4:10pm, Kristof tweeted, “explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking […]
By Clay Waters ~ Will New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis (pictured) offer an addendum to his alarmist March 8 report, “Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years,” in the face of new information that discredits the underlying data? In that story Gillis summarized a report (whose lead author is Oregon State University earth scientist […]
By Tim Graham ~ On Friday, NYTimes.com announced: “The Times is discontinuing the Green blog, which was created to track environmental and energy news and to foster lively discussion of developments in both areas.” The reality must be that people don’t read it, and people simply don’t find global warming a scintillating subject. So much […]
By Alan Caruba ~ “What’s in worse shape””, asked the Heartland Institute’s Director of Communications, Jim Lakely, in a January 11th blog post. “The state of the Earth’s climate? Or the state of the New York Times? Global temperatures are not rising all that quickly, so the Earth is doing fine. Meanwhile, the Old Gray […]
By Clay Waters ~ An online “Room for Debate” segment posted on the New York Times website June 21 posed a left-leaning question to a symposium of six left-leaning outside experts: “Should Air-Conditioning Go Global, or Be Rationed Away?” While it may have been acceptable for New Yorkers to beat the heat with air conditioning, […]
By Clay Waters ~ The New York Times most apocalyptic environmental reporter Justin Gillis returned with another scary front-page story Wednesday. Last Christmas, Gillis penned a warning about Republicans imperiling climate research funding that environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr.called “perhaps the worst piece of reporting I’ve ever seen in the Times on climate change.” His […]
By Tom Blumer ~ On Monday (appearing in the print edition on Tuesday, New York Times op-ed columnist Joe Nocera (pictured) gave President Barack Obama a pass for rejecting the Keystone Pipeline. In the process, he also complained about “the way our poisoned politics damages the country,” and, in a revelation which shouldn’t but did […]
By Gregory D. Lee ~ This week, the New York Times breathlessly reported in its New York Region section that the New York Police Department had committed a politically incorrect felony by using a film, The Third Jihad, to train its officers on the hidden agenda of many Muslims residing in the U.S. That hidden […]
By Noel Sheppard On Wednesday, the President of the United States actually sent an email message to his followers complaining that he’s frustrated by his inability to get everything he wants through a Congress with a different vision of the world. On Sunday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said she too is frustrated – […]
By Clay Waters Never let a natural disaster go to waste. In August 2010, New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis reacted to that summer’s heat waves and flooding with “In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming” on the front page of the Times. So it was no surprise he took advantage of Hurricane […]
Rep. Peter King’s opening statement at today’s (Wed, 27 Jul 2011) House Committee on Homeland Security hearing (highlights added) underscores why ACT! for America presented him our highest legislative award at this year’s National Conference and Legislative Briefing. Make sure you scroll down to the end to read what he says about the New York […]
By Peter Gadiel Ah, the Fourth of July holiday! It has passed for this year, but the joys of it remain in our memories: burgers & steaks on the barbecue, the NY Times op-ed page, Harvard scholars, global warming. What more could one ask for to complete the day? The connection to the Fourth of […]
By Tom Blumer It took well over a year, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has gotten his way. Covering the story for the New York Times, Richard Perez-Pena seemed to alternate between shock and “Awww.” His biggest journalistic distortion was understating the degree to which Christie needed — and got — Democratic Party help […]
By Clay Waters New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal found a familiar villain for her Thursday Business story on the woeful state of Colombia’s coffee crop – “climate change” (“Coffee Source In Colombia Suffers Setbacks – Climate Change Poses a Threat To the Popular Arabica Crop”). Like most of the small landowners in Colombia’s lush […]
By Amy Ridenour Can you spot the bias? From the New York Times, a March 8 report by John M. Broder, “At House E.P.A. Hearing, Both Sides Claim Science“: In an effort to support the E.P.A.’s regulatory power, committee Democrats rounded up five eminent academic climatologists who defended the scientific consensus that the planet is […]
By Alan Caruba In a long career as a journalist, full time and freelance, I have sometimes said that I knew something was seriously wrong with The New York Times when I began to see my byline show up on stories that appeared briefly. It’s been decades since I have held The Times in my […]
By Noel Sheppard There are times when one has to think the Manhattan building that is the home of the New York Times doesn’t have any windows, doesn’t have any television sets, and doesn’t have any doors that allow employees to venture out and actually see what’s happening in America beyond the walls of 620 […]
By Tim Graham In his “Strategies” column in The New York Times, Jeff Sommer is touting how things are looking up for Barack Obama. Try this: Based on the facts at hand right now, Mr. Obama is likely to win the 2012 election in a landslide. That, at least, is the prediction of Ray C. […]
By Roger Aronoff In textbook examples, both Time magazine and The New York Times have once again shown their hostility toward Israel. Bias comes in many shapes and forms. It can be through misleading headlines, location of a story within the publication, selective use of photos, facts omitted, sources sought and choice of words. A […]
Don’t be deceived New York Times and CNN miss critical analysis of overhyped Muslim counter-radicalization video By Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser The New York Times, CNN, and other “mainstream media outlets” recently reported on a video that was put out by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) on July 15, 2010. According to MPAC it […]
By Nancy Morgan The question on the minds of millions of Americans this morning: How many people attended Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ rally yesterday in our nations’ capitol? The answer to this question has ramifications far beyond mere crowd size. It is one of the few concrete indicators of the popularity and viability of the […]
By John Howard I would call the New York Times my “guilty pleasure” if there were any pleasure in it. But there isn’t. There is, though, plenty of guilt at having been a subscriber for thirty years. I just don’t have the heart to stop my subscription. Call it sentimentality. Call it masochism. But it is a high […]
By Noel Sheppard Republican Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has struck back at Paul Krugman calling the New York Times columnist “intellectually lazy.” As NewsBusters reported Saturday, Krugman wrote an article the previous day castigating Ryan as “The Flimflam Man” calling the Congressman a “charlatan” and a “fraud” while claiming his “Roadmap” to balance the […]
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