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Front-Page Story Gets Nostalgic for Summer School
Posted By: Clay Waters
7/2/2009 2:51:38 PM
Education reporter Sam Dillon doesn't question using the economic "stimulus" money for funding summer school classes facing the budget ax.
NYT Editors: Powerful and Modest
Posted By: Clay Waters
7/2/2009 1:47:09 PM
A story on Times editors hashing out the next morning's front page talks of "11 men and 7 women with the power to decide what was important in the world."
Egan: Bush Years of "Sanctioned Torture and War Built on Deceit"
Posted By: Clay Waters
 7/2/2009 1:36:54 PM
Happy 4th of July! Reporter turned nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan celebrates the return of liberal patriotism after the nightmare of the Bush years.
Shades of Bias: Bringing Illegals "Out of the Shadows"
Posted By: Clay Waters
7/2/2009 12:50:55 PM
Yet another sympathetic portrayal ofillegal immigrants as cowering "in the shadows" -- a phrase the Times has used several times in supposedly objective news stories.
Supreme Court Firefighter Decision "A Blow to Diversity"
Posted By: Clay Waters
7/1/2009 4:44:10 PM
The Times shows its knee-jerk liberalism in the New Haven firefighter case, and defends Obama nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Stolberg "Surprised" By Unsurprising Event: Wal-Mart Pushing Liberal Agenda
Posted By: Clay Waters
 7/1/2009 3:04:42 PM
Sheryl Gay Stolberg also failed to quote anyone opposed to a Wal-Mart/labor union alliance pushing a requirement that companies provide health insurance to their workers.
Why Is Edmund Andrews Still Writing About Mortgages?
Posted By: Clay Waters
7/1/2009 1:11:17 PM
Reporter Edmund Andrews, who wrote a misleading book about his own personal mortgage crisis, writes a misleading article on a proposed new consumer protection agency that would...help people undergoing mortgage crises.
Dictators and (Obama's) Double Standards
Posted By: Clay Waters
6/30/2009 5:11:05 PM
When it came to the rigged election in Iran, Barack Obama played it cool in his public statements, earning the tacit approval of the Times. But when the Honduran military toppled that country's corrupt president, the Times embraced Obama for speaking out against the "coup" -- the same kind of internal "meddling" he refused to do for the people of Iran.
Glater Still Cheerleading for Liberal Student Loan Programs
Posted By: Clay Waters
6/30/2009 1:27:35 PM
Reporter Jonathan Glater issues a virtual press release in favor of a liberalized (in both senses) student loan repayment program praised by Naderites.
Roger Cohen Says He Was Right All Along About Iranian People
Posted By: Clay Waters
6/30/2009 12:15:16 PM
See, Cohen says, I was right all along: "One benefit of the massive show of resistance to a stolen vote, and future, has been to awaken Americans to the civic vitality of Iranian society -- a real country with real people rather than a bunch of zealous clerics posing a nuclear problem."
Plugging Euro-Style Health Care in the Movie Section
Posted By: Clay Waters
6/30/2009 10:48:14 AM
The paper's liberal chief movie critic plugs the French way of life.
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