October 12, 2008
In his column after the vice presidential debate last week, the New York Times' David Brooks, a man with deep respect for erudition, surprisingly wrot...
Ryan Rivera | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
(AP photo) Colorado and Nevada officials responded on Thursday to Wednesday's New York Times story alleging thousands of voters have been removed fr...
Editor&Publisher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Surprising a letter to the editor published in th New York Times today, the chief prosecutor of the Weather Undeground in the 1970s expressed outrage ...
Molly Laas | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living
For a while I have puzzled over the phenomenon Frank Bruni describes in his Times piece on gender roles in the dining room, and not for lack of someth...
Gary Rosen | Posted 10.08.2008 | Media
The New York Times may be too genteel to state unequivocally that the main source for a major network documentary on "Obama Personal Ties" is a virulent anti-Semite.
Deanie Mills | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home
I couldn't take it. I was running all around the Internet, searching frantically, desperately, for someone, ANYONE who could SHOW ME THE GRAPH!!!
Forbes | James Erik Abels | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
The New York Times' Web site is getting more global, and IHT.com is going bye-bye. The Times told staff in an internal e-mail Tuesday that the paper'...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
At this weekend's New Yorker Festival, Ken Auletta moderated a panel called "Covering the Campaign" with Bill Keller, Jack Shafer, Peggy Noonan and Ta...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business
The people with the same rapacious mindset that got us to this dangerous place at huge profit to themselves are now being asked by Paulson to serve themselves up to another helping.
William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
The New York Times should liberate this "fifth columnist" from his contract so that he is free to officially join the Palin campaign.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
The New York Times has a feature called "The Conversation" in which two of its star writers, David Brooks, their Republican-leaning columnist, and Gai...
David Quigg | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
If Palin won't repent for us and won't repent for America, I hope she'll at least remember Lee Atwater's dying remorse and restrain herself for her own sake.
New York Magazine | Joe Hagan | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media
Dave Golden couldn't stay at the paper mill forever. It was too tied to the family business, too laden with expectations. So he set off to find himsel...
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
What got me was how Helene Cooper who is a top tier journalist in the United States survived the assault on her life and basic identity -- and then remade herself.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
Even with this sudden move to the political center, Palin sought to reassure her supporters on the right by completely misunderstanding the Times article she was referring to.
Trey Ellis | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media
The New York Times' non-story about Obama's casual relationship with Bill Ayers is their version of the odiously unfunny New Yorker cover of Obama dressed like a terrorist.
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media
With Obama opening up a strong lead in the polls, it's hard not to feel the Times is adhering to some juvenile rule of parity in which each candidate gets whacked in turn.
Ruth Hochberger | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media
While other newspapers in the country are emphasizing local news to stem the tide of those turning to the Web for their information, the Times is leaving us devoted city readers to the tabloids for our city news.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
In the end, this isn't even about Palin. It's about us. Any society with its priorities straight would have watched Palin last night and, regardless of ideological beliefs, ruled her out as a candidate for the vice presidency.
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
"Every job lost on Wall Street impacts two-to-three jobs on the outside. By comparison, every job lost at an auto plant impacts nearly 10 jobs on the outside... We don't want to know what happens if the domestic auto industry gets away from us."
Mark Evitt | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
There's no question the Times' gambling story is damaging. It tells how McCain gleefully investigated rivals during the probe into lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings with American Indian tribes.
Steve Parker | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business
They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...
Doug Bremner | Posted 09.29.2008 | Living
Here's a forgotten chapter from pharmaceutical history. The acne drug, Accutane, manufactured by Roche Pharmaceuticals, has been associated with hundreds of birth defects.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign has made it pretty clear in recent weeks that any or all criticism of their candidate from the New York Times is a product of bein...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
I missed this New York Times headline from earlier in the week: In a Time of Crisis, Is Obama Too Cool? Simple answer: no. And a question for the NYT....
I am old enough to have remembered the Weathermen, and McCarthyism. By...
I attended the "Campaign Trail" panel at last weekend's New Yorker festival,...
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects...
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Jerry Weissman | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics