New Yorker Sides With Right Against Childless Cat Ladies
The message of Emma Green’s one-sided New Yorker piece is that the issue of declining birth rates is not economic, but a spiritual rot in contemporary society.
New Yorker Takes Aim at People Who Still Think Covid Is a Problem
Corporate media’s overarching message is that it’s “time to move on,” and radicals holding on to precautions are impeding economic recovery.
Washington Post Shows How Not to Talk About Free Speech
The Washington Post’s pieces suffer from dubious, superficial understandings of free speech, and function as attacks on the left that whitewash the far right.
Malcolm Gladwell Likes Leaks When They Bolster Government Power
In a properly functioning media system, Gladwell argues, the purpose of leaks is to fool people into accepting government indoctrination—and it would be a shame if that system were to break down.
New Yorker Shooting Blindly at Bernie Sanders
It seems the view of many in the media is that Sanders is a fringe candidate, so it’s not necessary to treat his positions with the same respect awarded the views of a Hillary Clinton or a Marco Rubio.
The New Yorker Doesn’t Factcheck What ‘Everyone Knows’ Is True
Reporting on the Argentine investigation of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Center treats Iran’s responsibility as an accepted and documented fact.
People Who Urge Calm Over NSA Spying Make Me Nervous
It’s as if it’s not possible for the government to violate people’s Fourth Amendment rights (to be protected against “unreasonable searches and seizures”) unless it violates their First Amendment rights at the same time.
You’re to Blame for Factory Deaths. Well, You and Walmart
The New Yorker’s James Surowiecki has figured out who’s to blame for unsafe working conditions for garment workers: people who wear clothing: “The problem isn’t so much evil factory owners as a system that’s great at getting Western consumers what they want but leaves developing-world workers toiling in misery.”
Jon Lee Anderson Explains: Because I Said So
New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson has a blog post on the magazine’s website (4/23/13) addressing the controversy over his recent coverage of Venezuela (FAIR Blog, 4/17/13): At issue are sentences in three different pieces written in the course of a number of months—two on the New Yorker‘s website and one in the magazine. […]
Why We Need the New Yorker to Correct Its Error on Venezuelan Inequality
The New Yorker is a magazine whose name is practically synonymous with factchecking–which makes you wonder how the glaring, major errors in the its recent coverage of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got through.
Why Do Poor People Living in an Abandoned Skyscraper So Outrage the New Yorker?
It seems like for the New Yorker, rising standards of living for the poor don’t matter much when weighed against the fact that rich people lost some property they weren’t using.
Unlike Amazon, Publishers Understand Authors—and How to Rip Them Off
In a lengthy New Yorker piece (4/26/10) about the Amazon/Apple battle over e-books, Ken Auletta paints some familiar heroes and villains: The [publishing] industry’s great hope was that the iPad would bring electronic books to the masses—and help make them profitable. E-books are booming…. But publishers were concerned that lower prices would decimate their profits. […]
Battling ‘Baseless, Worthless Grants of Anonymity’
Deeming “the battle against baseless, worthless grants of anonymity by journalists” to be “at this point, probably futile,” Salon‘s Glenn Greenwald (6/15/09, ad-viewing required) is exasperated to see how “even many of the nation’s best and most valuable reporters–such as the New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer–seem helplessly addicted to it.” Greenwald points to “an otherwise solid […]
NYT Names ‘Harsh Tactics’ as ‘Torture’ — by Chinese
Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald gets the site’s lead story today (5/8/09, ad-viewing required) with an excerpt from the New York Times obituary for U.S. fighter pilot Harold E. Fischer Jr., who, as the Times headline puts it, was “Tortured in a Chinese Prison.” Greenwald deems such naming of Fischer’s ordeal–“kept in a dark, damp cell […]
