New York Times

Margaret Sullivan: An NYT ombud who dares to challenge her paper’s cozy relationship with the government

by News Sources 03.21.2013

Greg Mitchell writes: With criticism and debate over the Obama administration’s deadly drone policy at a high level, it’s easy to forget that this was not the case until very recently. What set off the uproar was NBC’s decision in early February to publish a Justice Department white paper on rules governing US drone strikes [...]

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The New York Times’s English problem

by Paul Woodward 03.09.2013

Philip B. Corbett, who is in charge of The New York Times’s style manual and has the dubious title of associate managing editor for standards, is responsible for policing sentences like the following, which appeared in a February 8 article: It turned out the activity was centered around a high school in Orange County. Centered [...]

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Did the New York Times cover up the cause of Anthony Shadid’s death?

by Paul Woodward 06.25.2012

When heroes die, the institutions they represent sometimes feel driven to turn an avoidable tragedy into a final act of heroism. That’s what happened to Pat Tillman in Afghanistan. Did the New York Times journalist, Anthony Shadid, suffer the same fate? Shortly after his death in Syria, the Times’ executive editor, Jill Abramson sent an [...]

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New York Times accused of killing Anthony Shadid

by News Sources 06.25.2012

Politico reports: Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times reporter who died in Syria this year, had heated arguments with his editors just prior to his final trip into the country, a cousin of Shadid’s says, and told his wife that were he to die the New York Times would be to blame. “The [...]

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Why is the NYT enabling a U.S. govt smear campaign against reporters exposing the drone wars?

by News Sources 05.14.2012

John Hanrahan at NiemanWatchdog writes: A human rights lawyer and a group of investigative journalists who have exposed the extensive civilian casualties from CIA drone strikes in Pakistan are being smeared by anonymous U.S. government officials, who have even accused them of being sympathetic to al Qaeda. Two of the anonymous accusations came in articles [...]

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Thomas Friedman, all-American pundit: A review of Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work

by Guest Contributor 04.07.2012

By John Robertson, Professor of History, Central Michigan University With the publication of Belen Fernandez’s The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, Verso Press inaugurated a new series, called Counterblasts, with the intention of reviving a tradition of polemic that it traces back to the fiery political pamphleteers of the 17th century. Obviously, then, Ms. [...]

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All the lies fit to print

by News Sources 01.13.2012

Clay Shirky writes: Thursday, Arthur Brisbane, the public editor of the New York Times, went to his readers with a question: “I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge ‘facts’ that are asserted by newsmakers they write about.” Brisbane (who, as public editor, speaks only for himself, [...]

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The parasites in the belly of the beast of American capitalism

by Paul Woodward 12.29.2011

Robert Scheer writes: It is official now. The Ron Paul campaign, despite surging in the Iowa polls, is not worthy of serious consideration, according to a New York Times editorial; “Ron Paul long ago disqualified himself for the presidency by peddling claptrap proposals like abolishing the Federal Reserve, returning to the gold standard, cutting a [...]

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New York Times implies anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic

by Paul Woodward 12.26.2011

When Jim Rutenberg and Serge Kovaleski refer to “books like The Invention of the Jewish People and March of the Titans: A History of the White Race,” should we assume that these are just ignorant journalists making a grossly inappropriate association, or are they purposefully trying to mislead their readers? In their New York Times [...]

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Obama administration considers censoring Twitter

by Paul Woodward 12.20.2011

How dangerous can 140 characters be? Apparently if those 140 characters are being fired onto the web through the Twitter account of al Shabib, Somalia’s militant jihadist movement, then the national security of the United States could be in jeopardy. The New York Times reports: American officials say they may have the legal authority to [...]

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Israel — still an embarrassment to its friends

by Paul Woodward 11.29.2011

Joe Klein writes: My friend and colleague, the great war photographer Lynsey Addario, has been through a lot this year — kidnapped by the Libyans, difficult assignments in Afghanistan, Somalia and Gaza, and a much less taxing three weeks hanging with me on my annual road trip, all while pregnant… and now she has been [...]

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Israeli soldiers treat New York Times photographer like a Palestinian

by Paul Woodward 11.28.2011

After Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer working for the New York Times, was forced by Israeli soldiers to pass through an X-ray machine three times in spite of her protests that it might harm her unborn child, Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner expresses shock: The Times remains shocked at the treatment Lynsey Addario [...]

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NYT bureau chief to appear on panel for Islamophobic organization’s film

by News Sources 10.28.2011

Eli Clifton reports: The New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Ethan Bronner, has stirred up controversy over recent speaking engagements. But an announcement on the 92nd St. Y’s website shows that Bronner is now scheduled to appear on a panel hosted by the Clarion Fund, an Islamophobic organization, to discuss the “threat of a nuclear [...]

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Ethan Bronner and the art of owning up without paying a price

by Paul Woodward 10.02.2011

The newspaper that wasn’t willing to fire Judith Miller — even though she played a key role in propagating bogus information that led to the war in Iraq — can hardly be expected to give harsh treatment to Ethan Bronner, its Jerusalem bureau chief, just because of a few pesky conflicts of interest. But then [...]

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The New York Times’ conflicts of interest

by Paul Woodward 09.25.2011

The New York Times has a “public editor” — currently Arthur S. Brisbane — who is described as “the readers’ representative.” His job is to respond to complaints and comments from the public and to monitor the paper’s journalistic practices. Readers’ representative? Is he selected by the paper’s readers? No. Is he employed by the [...]

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The mainstreaming of Walt and Mearsheimer

by News Sources 09.18.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: There were numerous reasons that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer were accused in prominent venues of all sorts of crimes — including anti-Semitism — when they published The Israel Lobby, but the most common cause was the book’s central theme: that there is a very powerful lobby in the U.S. which is principally devoted [...]

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On Israel, the New York Times is perniciously one-sided

by News Sources 08.31.2011

At Adbusters, Matthew A. Taylor writes: Although the spin is hard to detect for the average reader, New York Times reportage of Middle East affairs is perniciously biased. In their seminal book, Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East, Princeton professor Richard Falk and media critic Howard Friel [...]

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When Truman opened the nuclear era — with a lie

by News Sources 08.07.2011

Greg Mitchell writes: On August 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman faced the task of telling the press, and the world, that America’s crusade against fascism had culminated in exploding a revolutionary new weapon of extraordinary destructive power over a Japanese city. It was vital that this event be understood as a reflection of dominant [...]

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Was New York Times’ Ethan Bronner duped by an Israeli Facebook fraud?

by News Sources 07.10.2011

Al Abunimah writes: RAMALLAH, West Bank – Moad Arqoub, a Palestinian graduate student, was bouncing around the Internet the other day and came across a site that surprised and attracted him. It was a Facebook page where Israelis and Palestinians and other Arabs were talking about everything at once: the prospects of peace, of course, [...]

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The fight for Libya

by News Sources 03.21.2011

The New York Times reports: As the military operation continued over Libya on Monday, there was some confusion about which country or organization is actually leading it, and for how long. France, Britain and the United States are in charge of their own operations, which each have different code names. The participants are being “coordinated” [...]

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Listening Post – The shootout, the US agent and the media

by News Sources 03.05.2011
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Tom Friedman getting high in Egypt

by Paul Woodward 03.02.2011

Muammar Gaddafi has several times claimed that he’s up against a rebellion in which his opponents are high on hallucinogenic drugs. I guess he never saw this or this. Tom Friedman, on the other hand, presents what can only be described as a hallucinogenic view of the revolution in Egypt — a psychedelic vision of [...]

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Stuxnet attack on Bushehr: Russia warns of ‘Iranian Chernobyl’

by Paul Woodward 01.18.2011

Following Saturday’s New York Times report that the Stuxnet malware targeting Iran’s nuclear program was a joint US-Israeli operation, the Daily Telegraph reports that Russian nuclear scientists are concerned that the Bushehr nuclear plant could suffer catastrophic damage. Fuel rods were inserted in the new reactor at the end of November and the plant is [...]

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New York Times sick of Israel

by Paul Woodward 12.29.2010

I have no idea how accurate the reporting is here, but Israel Today Magazine has a colorful account of what it headlines as an Israeli diplomat getting “ambushed” by the New York Times editorial team, under the direction of “rabid columnist” Tom Friedman. The New York Times, flagship of the liberal American media, has never [...]

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