Why Advocating Torture Is OK, but Single-Payer Is Beyond the Pale
The New York Times’ op-ed page’s latest right-wing hire, Bret Stephens, doesn’t like Donald Trump—but he loves Trump’s worst ideas.
Deficit Scare Tactics Are What Citizens Should Really Be Afraid Of
Folks like Maya MacGuineas have pushed austerity policies in the United States and around the world for the last decade. These policies have prevented the government from spending the amount necessary to restore the economy to full employment.
‘The New York Times Wants to Have a Very Circumscribed Discussion’
You need people like Bret Stephens to be the people that the Paul Krugmans and the Thomas Friedmans will argue against. And as long as that’s the only argument that we can have, then the wealthy people who own the New York Times will never see their wealth threatened.
Jim Naureckas on Bret Stephens, Paul Paz y Miño on Ecuador’s Oil Devastation
The New York Times is having trouble squaring its hire of climate change denialist Bret Stephens for a regular column with its current PR campaign branding the paper a bastion of rationality in a dangerously “alt-fact” moment.
Action Alert: NYT Misleads on Children’s Pre-Existing Conditions
The New York Times, in its obsession with reporting that the truth is somewhere in the middle no matter what the facts say, is now downplaying the risk to sick children posed by elimination of the Affordable Care Act.
NYT’s 100 Day Apologism Shows Danger of ‘Both Sides’ Reporting
New York Times White House reporter Peter Baker appears to have set out in earnest to write a “balanced” review of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. In doing so, he exposed the futility of such an exercise.
Three Reasons Bret Stephens Should Not Be a NYT Columnist—and the Real Reason He Is One
The orthodoxy on the New York Times op-ed page isn’t “liberalism”; Bret Stephens is the third representative of his ideological niche, the anti-Trump conservative, to currently have a home there.
NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’ North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
The New York Times paints a dire picture of a Trump administration forced to react to the growing and impending doom of North Korea nuclear weapons.
At NYT, Climate Denial and Racism Don’t Make You Fringe — but Single-Payer Does
Bret Stephens’ hiring highlights the radical asymmetry at work when considering what is and isn’t a fringe opinion. When one goes to the far right, there doesn’t seem to be a line that can’t be crossed, while anything slightly to the left of Hillary Clinton is nonexistent in the staff opinion section at the New York Times.
Thomas Friedman’s Perverse Love Affair With ISIS
For the second time in as many years, Thomas Friedman has explicitly advocated that the United States use the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as a proxy force against Iran, Russia, Syria and Hezbollah.
NYT’s BDS Debate Excludes BDS Proponents
The last opinion column on the topic by a BDS supporter to appear in the New York Times was in January 2014. Since then, the Times has published seven opinion columns that took a clear position on BDS, all of them in opposition.
Advocate of Saddam/Al Qaeda Conspiracy Will Save Us From Fake News
The Weekly Standard, lest we forget—as Rutenberg clearly has—was second to no publication in using shoddy journalism to sell a war that would leave countless hundreds of thousands dead.
NYT Says Congress Has ‘Duty’ to Make War–Rather Than the Right to Reject It
The New York Times editorial board didn’t take a wave of civilians deaths as a reason to question the wisdom of America’s various “counter-terror,” nation-building and regime-change projects in the Middle East, but instead chose to browbeat Congress into rubber-stamping a war that’s been going on for almost three years.
NYT Sees Fed on Collision Course With Trump—for Doing What Trump Said to Do
The problem with the account by New York Times Washington correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum is that the Fed is doing exactly what Trump, throughout the 2016 campaign, repeatedly demanded that it do.
NYT Reporting on Trump’s Budget Outline Is Seriously Confused
It really doesn’t make much difference what Donald Trump and Paul Ryan’s political philosophy is. Contrary to what the New York Times might lead us to believe, this is not a battle of political philosophy, it is a battle over money.
NYT Cites FAIR’s ‘Harrumph’ in Obit for Alan Colmes
The New York Times reports that FAIR “harrumphed”: “If the Harlem Globetrotters have the Washington Generals as their nightly fall guys, Sean Hannity has Alan Colmes.”
Are Liberals Helping Trump? Not Much, Apparently
approximately 25 million US adults who have started disapproving of Trump’s month-old presidency, and about 12 million who have stopped supporting it. It’s possible that without Trump’s critics’ “moral Bolshevism,” even more people would have joined the opposition. But if liberals are helping Trump, they’re obviously not helping him very much.
NYT: Unlike Russian Wars, US Wars ‘Promote Freedom and Democracy’
Aghast that the president could equate the moral worth of the United States with that of the dastardly Russians, the New York Times’ editorial board published a flag-waving scolding called “Blaming America First.”
Media Need to Treat Presidential Lawbreaking as a Matter of Fact
Saying that the president is breaking the law feels like taking sides, whereas asserting that “the president has broad legal authority to restrict immigration” seems like the kind of thing a “neutral” journalist would say.
A Mickey Mouse Reason to Support the TPP
If the future of the free world depends on the TPP, then maybe it shouldn’t have included measures that will hugely raise the cost of everything from prescription drugs to software to Mickey Mouse memorabilia.
