NYT, WSJ Look to Hawks for Ukraine Expertise
Perspectives that critically examine government actions have been hard to find in New York Times and Wall Street Journal reporting on Ukraine,
ACTION ALERT: NYT Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine
The New York Times has found another neo-Nazi militia to fawn over in Ukraine. The Bratstvo battalion “gave access to the New York Times to report on two recent riverine operations,” which culminated in a piece (11/21/22) headlined “On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians.” Since the US-backed Maidan coup in 2014, establishment media […]
Climate Confusion and Complicity at the New York Times
When the New York Times treats the same climate data as horrifying or reassuring, it helps confuse the public and keep us complacent.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Invents Left Extremists to Make ‘Moderation’ the Midterm Winner
Please tell the New York Times to explain how the Democrats cited in its November 14 piece qualify as “extremists.”
ACTION ALERT: NYT Celebrates Neo-Nazi Azov Unit
Three years ago, describing an Australian white supremacist charged with massacring 49 people in New Zealand, the New York Times (3/15/19) wrote: “On his flak jacket was a symbol commonly used by the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization.” What a difference a war makes! A Times story (10/4/22) in the paper’s Ukraine […]
Dragging Trump Into Spotlight Feeds His Dangerous Movement
Shoehorning Trump into conversations that don’t involve him implies a false equivalence between the president and a political pretender.
NYT Scolds China for Not ‘Learning to Live’—or Die—With Covid
The New York Times writes yet another in a series of articles about how China has had the enormous misfortune of avoiding mass death.
NYT Etiquette Column Offers Advice for the Resentful Rich
One can respond with only so much good humor to the misery, greed and pettiness of the Times readers whose letters the paper chooses to print.
National Polls, State Ballots Measure Different ‘Public Opinions’
The New York Times’ Nate Cohn argues that voters don’t really mean what they tell pollsters about guns.
NYT Hypes NYC Police Spending, Buries School Cuts
The New York Times article framed the NYC budget as mainly an issue of law enforcement priorities rather than a question of austerity.
Invasion News Fits on Front Page More When an Enemy Does the Invading
A comparison of New York Times coverage of Ukraine and Iraq shows that the same kinds of news don’t always fit on the front page.
‘Liberal’ Newspapers Liked the Justices Who Will Kill Roe
Major liberal-leaning outlets reassured readers that fears Trump justices would undo Court decisions upholding civil rights were overblown.
NYT Responded to Subway Shooting With ‘Relentless String of Copaganda’
Alec Karakatsanis looked closely at how the New York Times used a crisis to boost police talking points and lies in some creative ways.
New York Times’ Fear of Ordinary People Talking Back
Annoyance at the rabble’s elevation in the discourse has evolved into hand-wringing over the future of liberalism.
Palin v. NYT Is Latest Salvo Against Free Press Protection
Sullivan, once seen as a necessary shield to protect independent speech from powerful figures, is being painted as a bad guy.
NYT Twists Stats to Insist We Need More Policing
The analysis presented the need for a police-based solution as indisputable —a position that is, in fact, highly disputed.
ACTION ALERT: NYT’s China Covid Coverage Needs to Acknowledge Reality
New York Times coverage of Covid in China, with its casual Nazi analogies, reaches a level of partisan hyperbole on a par with Fox News.
Legal Wrangle Between NYT and O’Keefe Puts Press Freedom at Risk
That the Times has been prohibited at least for a time from publishing journalism about Project Veritas, and must fight off the possibility that the right-wing activist group may be able to essentially edit and censor a story after it is published, has press freedom advocates worried.
Corporate Media’s Portrayal of Generational Divide Is So Cheugy
If the stereotypes of Generation Z sound familiar, it’s because just a few years ago, Millennials were described nearly identically.
Kristof’s Moralistic Journalism Was Often Full of Holes
The Kristofs of the world are helping to create the right-wing populism they say they want to fight against.
