First They Came for the Immigrants—and NYT Said People Should Anonymously Inform on Them
“The Ethicist” offers some Trump era advice: If someone confides to you about an immigration violation, he says, you should report them to the government.
NYT Amazed That Republicans Are Embracing Republican Ideas
The New York Times seems intent on exaggerating the ideological space between Donald Trump and traditional Republican Party policies. The latest example is a piece that expresses amazement that Republicans in Congress seem to accept Trump’s ideas—most of which are longstanding GOP policies.
NYT Apologies Depend on Whose Lives Are Distorted
The New York Times didn’t apologize when the paper was criticized for misrepresenting the lives, not of couples in an upper-middle-class suburb, but of impoverished food-stamp recipients.
Action Alert: NYT Turns to Oil Consultant to Minimize Trump’s Climate Damage
The New York Times minimizes Keystone’s impact on the climate, in the service of false balance and downplaying the impact of Trump’s anti-environmental moves.
David Brooks’ Anti-PC Screed: Women’s March Edition
For the tenth time in as many months, the New York Times let David Brooks take a current issue—in this case, the worldwide Women’s March—and jam it into his boilerplate grievance against what he perceives as ineffectual, harmful “identity politics.”
It’s Austerity, Not Globalization, That Pulls European Workers to the Right
The Washington Post and New York Times attribute the rise in support for the right to people losing from globalization. In fact, people are suffering because of the insistence of the European Union that its members pursue austerity policies.
Hey, NYT—the ‘Relentless Populist’ Relented Long Ago
The New York Times asserted after Trump’s inauguration, “It remains an open question whether he will continue to be the relentless populist who was on display on Friday.” But looking at Trump’s nominations and appointments, it’s hard to discern any signs of populism whatsoever.
NYT Ignored Reality at 2001 Bush Inauguration; Now Ignorance Is History
Given the paper of record’s strenuous downplaying of the 2001 inaugural protests in the name of “Tradition and Legitimacy,” it’s not surprising that 16 years later, the paper’s reporters remember those protests as being “modest.”
NYT: If Only We Knew What We Already Know About Jeff Sessions
If only there were some other social actor or institution, positioned to prevent a politician from hiding his record from the public…who could help ensure Americans know as much as possible about him…? Who would that be?
NYT Makes the Case for Trump Via Racialized Rural Mythology
To ignore the fact that taxes generally flow from the metropolitan centers to the hinterlands, in an effort to justify a fantasy of rural grievance, is frankly poisonous.
Media Legitimizing GOP’s ‘Universal’ Health Plan That Doesn’t Exist
It appears that the same corporate media who misled us into the Affordable Care Act are now misleading us out of it—and the New York Times’ reporting on the GOP’s health care agenda is a particularly egregious example of this.
NYT’s False Choice for Democrats: Move to the Right or Divide by Race
The New York Times offers Democrats a strategy that goes after rural, whiter, more conservative voters—presumably by being more conservative—vs. a strategy of counting on demographics to deliver victory to a party focused on social and environmental issues.
‘For Whites, Fewer Jobs’: NYT Chart Divides and Deceives
This was a period of weak employment growth, but workers from all demographic groups suffered. The numbers in this piece give a misleading picture in implying that white workers suffered disproportionately.
Campuses Don’t Need Affirmative Action for Trumpism
In the face of one of the most conflicted, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant administrations in modern history, why is the most influential column space in the English-speaking world being used time and again to go after relatively powerless college kids and PC professors?
NYT Protects Its Pundit Who Dismissed Trans Rights as ‘Boutique Issue’
It seems likely that the omission of Frank Bruni’s name—a familiar one, of course, to regular readers of the New York Times op-ed page—was a deliberate choice.
Corporate Welfare Will Bring Back Jobs vs. Jobs Will Never Come Back
The Carrier debate provides a microcosm of the media debate over jobs in the 2016 election season: On the one hand, sweeping promises to bring jobs back based on pandering to corporations, and on the other hand fatalistic assurances that there’s no way to bring jobs back.
If We Care About the Constitution, Trump Has to Sell His Empire
If we give a damn about the Constitution, Donald Trump has to sell off his empire and place his assets in a blind trust, just like every other president has done for the last half century.
Appeal to the Working Class? Don’t Bother, Says Krugman
In the wake of a disastrous Election Day, does the Democratic Party need to present economic policies that have more to offer the majority of voters? Don’t bother, argues New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
Front-Page Election News: More Horserace, More Trump, More Presidency
A FAIR analysis of front-page election coverage in three major dailies revealed a strong emphasis on horserace politics at the expense of issue coverage. The study found a lopsided focus on Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, and an overwhelming focus on the presidential race at the expense of all other electoral contests.
By Assuming Snowden’s Guilt, NYT Indicts Itself—and Journalism
If we’re going to call Snowden’s documents “stolen,” then journalists frequently receive “stolen” records from sources and use them as the basis for stories—as the Times itself has done with documents released by Snowden. If Snowden is a thief, then the New York Times is a fence.
