The New York Times

Memo To Media: The Palin Rape-Kit Story Has Not Been "Debunked"

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Confederate Yankee, Time, Cnn, National Review Online, The New York Times, Sara Palin, Amanda Carpenter, Washington Post, Michelle Malkin, Newsweek, Daily Kos, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The press has treated the story as something of a taboo. And the loud, right-wing media claims about it being "debunked" likely add to its untouchable status.

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John McCain's Gambling Comes Home To Roost

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Gambling, Jo Becker, John McCain, Media, Wes Gullett, Don Van Natta Jr, The New York Times, Media News
Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose In July, I published Is John McCain's Gambling A Problem?, which concluded: The MSM have gone far enough to identify the McCain ...

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Dim, Doom, Downtown: Tom Wolfe, The New York Times and the End of New York City?

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Tom Wolfe, Kurt Anderson, Holly Peterson, The New York Observer, Economy, The New York Times, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

Quick -- you're a journalist who needs to describe the culture of our imploding Wall Street to a largely lay audience. What are you going to do? Reach...

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Financial Bailout = Patriot Act Redux: Under Cover of Crisis, the Republic is Lost

Pete Cenedella | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Chuck Schumer, 2008 Elections, No Blank Check, Depression, Usa Patriot Act, Paulson, The New York Times, Economic Crisis, Obama, Chris Dodd, Democratic Party, Democrats, 2008 Election, Recession, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Henry Paulson Plan, Mainstream Media, Patriot Act, Bailout, FInancial Markets, Bernanke, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Ben Bernanke, John Ashcroft, Bear Stearns Bailout, Treasury Secretary, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Business News
Pete Cenedella

Forgive me if I smell a similar attempt by the Republicans to ram a lopsided, ready-made and offensive prescription down the throats of the American people under the cover of crisis.

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Coming from the Sunday NY Times: Obama's Former Law Students Give Him an "A" -- and Offer Insight on His Presidency

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, The New York Times, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

A major story in this coming Sunday's special New York Times Magazine "college" issue explores Barack Obama's teaching days as a law professor at the ...

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McCain, Obama on Energy, the Environment and AIDS

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Corruption, John McCain, Cap-and-Trade, Barack Obama; John McCain; McCain Energy; Obama Energy; Barack Obama, Straight Talk Express, Nuclear Power, Greenhouse Gases, The New York Times, Ethanol, Free Market, Mccain Nuclear Power, Home News
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling

Over the course of this week, OffTheBus is running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on energy and environmental policy and the AIDS crisis.

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William Safire Sounds Kind Of Racist

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

Read More: White Supremacy, Jr., Racism, Martin Luther King, William Safire, Barack Obama, The New York Times, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

According to William Safire, Obama's speech was a failure because it was "all too like the collectivist fantasy that opened and closed the Beijing Olympics."

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Food is a Four Letter Word (Part 2)

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 09.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Type II Diabetes, The New York Times, Food, Francesco Rubino, The Inner Life, Four-Letter Word, Tara Parker-Pope, Living, Stephen Blair, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

I've never been way too skinny for anything since the day after I was born! Turns out I would have to be another whole half a me in order to qualify for a medically-mandated operation.

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Energy for Dummies: The GOP's Secret Weapon Is A Clueless Media

David Fiderer | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, T. Boone Pickens, John McCain, Erin Burnett, Newt Gingrich, Cnbc, The New York Times, John Harwood, Green News
David Fiderer

Nuclear reactors and oil are both types of energy, just as apples and vodka both types of calories. No one in the real world considers one to be an economic substitute for the other.

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Motorists vs. Cyclists: How The New York Times Ain't Helping

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 09.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Cars, Bicycling, Commuting, Cycling, The New York Times, Cycling to Work, Media News
Erik Lundegaard

Does anyone know one person who has quit driving because they're too worried about being hit by a bicycle?

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Oilman T. Boone Pickens: "A Fool With A Plan"

The New York Times | Deborah Solomon | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: T. Boone Pickens, T Boone Pickens, New York Times Magazine, Green, Green News, Environment, Boone Pickens, T. Boone Pickens Wind Turbines, The New York Times, Green News

As a Texas oilman and major contributor to the Republican Party, you've just launched yourself, at 80, into green stardom by devising an energy plan t...

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A Second Look At the NYTimes Science Section's "10 Things To Scratch From Your Worry List "

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Cell Phones, John Tierney, Water Bottles, The New York Times, Green, Green Living, Exotic Fruit, Plastic Bottles, Toxic Chemicals, Paper Bags, Climate Deniers, Food Miles, Environment, Cell Phones and Cancer, Green News, New York Times, Plastic Bags, Global Warming, Green News

We have heard of climate deniers and chemical industry defenders, but now John Tierney of The New York Times joins the ranks of the Everything Deniers...

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Two Face

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 08.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Opening Weekend, The New York Times, Box Office, Spider-Man 3, The Dark Knight, Batman, Movies, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Spider-Man 3 set an opening weekend record last year but its final tally ($336m) barely doubled its opening weekend. Why? It wasn't that good. The Dark Knight keeps going. Why? Because it's good.

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The Pentagon and the Banality of Evil

Rick Ayers | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, National Public Radio, Pentagon, Iraq, Pentagon Propaganda, The New York Times, Politics News
Rick Ayers

Not only did the Pentagon co-opt the press with "imbedded" journalists, but they censored and controlled the stories, making sure we did not see real images of the war and its cost.

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Marriage: A Cakewalk

Joyce McFadden | Posted 08.05.2008 | Style

Read More: The New Yorker, Madonna, Women's Studies, Marriage, The New York Times, Christie Brinkley, Infidelity, Sexuality in Marriage, A-Rod, Style News
Joyce McFadden

As we learn from those in the public eye, couples can come undone no matter how together they look from the outside.

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Bush Cheerleads While the Economy Dives

Mona Gable | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Gas Prices, The New York Times, Indymac, Economy, Ben Bernake, Mortgage Crisis, George W. Bush, Politics News
Mona Gable

I was extremely confused by Bush's rosy economic speech. Here my local bank, IndyMac, is collapsing, with distraught customers waiting in line for hours last week to get their money.

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The Real Problem with the New York Times Article on Racial Divide

David Moore | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama White Voters, Black Voters, 2008 Presidential Race, The New York Times, New York Times, Racism, Obama Black Voters, Barack Obama, White Voters, Politics News
David Moore

What is truly amazing at this point in U.S. history is that white voters now view a black candidate about as positively as a white candidate on most issues, and in some cases much more positively.

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Preview: Wild, Upcoming Novel By NYT Veteran Lampoons Judy Miller and Other NYTers

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Judy Miller, Books, Novel, Bill Keller, The New York Times, Huffpost Books, Media News
Greg Mitchell

Sure to get media tongues a-wagging when published on July 31 is the new John Darnton novel, Black and White and Dead All Over.

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Maureen Dowd, Please Don't Shut Up

Beth Arnold | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Maureen Dowd, Political Correctness, Gail Collins Maureen Dowd, Hillary Clinton 2008, Sexism, The New York Times, Media News
Beth Arnold

Before this political season began, my feeling was that Dowd had lost her touch. But then, thanks to the human material she had in this race, Dowd hit her stride again.

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Another Small Pleasure

Jan Herman | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times Oil Reporting, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Media News
Jan Herman

Long before Murdoch took over The WSJ, it had an enviable tradition of reporting factual news in a "storytelling" format, which its reporters were trained to do better than most.

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Why the New York Times Shouldn't Try to Predict Summer Box Office

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Iron Man, Spider-Man 3, Kung Fu Panda, Summer Movies, Shrek the Third, Box Office, The New York Times, Sex and the City, Pirates 3, Sex and the City: The Movie, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Frankly, it's not the business of the New York Times to engage in facile prognostication about the box office performance of summer sequels.

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Unfetter Women's Intellect on Campaign Trail

Lisa Witter | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women, Wife, First Lady, Michelle Obama, Jackie O, The New York Times, Eleanor Roosevelt, Cindy McCain, The View, Media Coverage, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Gender, Politics News
Lisa Witter

Is anyone else as appalled as I am at how quickly we have gone back to thinking of women in the oldest of stereotypes -- as only wives and mothers?

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William Kristol's Hypocrisy, Progressives' Blindness, Obama and the Military

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama and the Military, Mccain, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Webb, William Kristol, Bush, Obama Wesleyan Commencement Speech, Obama Military, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

The Obama campaign seems to have a tin ear/blind spot when relating to the military. This will cost us all if McCain wins because of it, but it will cost our military men and women most of all.

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Right is Wrong: the New York Times Corrects Latest Kristol, Brooks Columns on Obama

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Kristol, Brooks, Bill Kristol, David Brooks, The New York Times, San Francisco, Barack Obama, Media News
Greg Mitchell

In a rare move, the New York Times offered a total of four corrections today, covering the two latest columns from conservative op-ed columnists William Kristol and David Brooks.

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Surprise: New York Times Circulation Plunges, Wall Street Journal Gains

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Circulation, Newspapers, Media News
Greg Mitchell

One victim of decreased circulation -- thanks partly to popular websites like Huffington Post -- is the New York Times, which reports a whopping 9.2% decline on Sundays and 3.8% daily.

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