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In a recent New York Times interview, Barack Obama pointed out that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline probably won’t create many jobs–something we’ve been pointing out here on the FAIR Blog for a long time now,
The cover of Rolling Stone (8/13), featuring a self-portrait of Dzhokhar Tsaernav taken weeks before the Boston bombing, has fueled a strong backlash. Discussing the cover, Fox News‘ Lisa Daftari (7/18/13) said: In the aftermath of 9/11, if you look back over a decade ago, this country had an awakening, an understanding, that we have […]
Nate Silver’s failure to fit in with the culture of the New York Times illustrates the difference between objectivity and “objectivity”–the latter being the belief that it’s impossible to know what’s real, so all you can do is report the claims made by various (powerful) people.
NY Times says Obama, like Dwight Eisenhower, avoided “military adventures” because he is “leaving Afghanistan.” Sure–after massively escalating the war there.
The New York Times reports that Wikileaks’ “journalistic reputation was…undercut by two prominent articles published by the New York Times.” But if anyone’s journalistic reputation was hurt by those articles, it was the Times’.
One of the most important facts left out while discussing breadwinners? Of female breadwinners in America, 63 percent are single moms with a median family income of just $23,000.
“A Coup? Or Something Else?” is the question a New York Times headline is posing today about the U.S. government’s response to the military’s removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. But what is the New York Times calling it?
David Brooks lacks the mental equipment for informed, nuanced commentary on the politics of a Middle Eastern society.
Republicans discuss Barack Obama’s environmental policies as a “war on coal.” And in the New York Times, reporter Trip Gabriel covers that story not as someone trying to explain reality to readers, but as someone helping to make the Republican case.
Edward Snowden has been characterized as many things in recent weeks, but journalists’ discounting him as a “high-school dropout” speaks volumes about media portrayals of education.
A true re-examination would ask: What is it about media institutions that makes them so willing to write off millions of mainly black children?
Not too long ago there was a massive scandal clogging up the front pages of the papers and the cable news airwaves: The IRS was either denying or delaying tax-exempt status to right-leaning “Tea Party” groups. But now things are starting to look a little different.
In her take on Michael Hastings’ obit, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan said that while “the obituary…is not factually inaccurate, as far as I can tell,” she said it “seems to diminish his work’s legitimacy.”
The administration’s defense of domestic surveillance is in tatters, but few media outlets seem to notice; Thomas Friedman revises his Iraq War stance, again; and a farewell to journalist Michael Hastings.
When a journalist dies, how can you tell if they’ve had a career that’s upheld the proudest journalistic traditions of challenging the powerful and fearlessly exposing the truth? The New York Times will attempt to piss on that career in the journalist’s obituary.
What Tim Dickinson called Hastings’ “enthusiastic breaches of the conventions of access journalism” were what enabled him to report the unguarded assessments of the officers running the occupation of Afghanistan.
Yesterday the New York Times posted an article about U.S. intelligence agencies becoming more confident about their assessments of several suspect chemical weapons attacks. But the intelligence remains, at this point, at arm’s length.
The facts on Iran’s nuclear power program should be clear by now–but as coverage by the New York Times and MSNBC demonstrates, evidently they’re not.
The New York Times says that UN Ambassador-nominee Samantha Power “criticized the American invasion of Iraq because it lacked the council’s stamp, among other reasons.” But what did Power actually say about the Iraq War before it happened?
