Tag Archives: New York Times

'Strength in Bargaining' Still, When Deals 'Done Fairly'

Posted on 07/23/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher (7/21/09) is reporting that newspaper union representatives claim a victory of sorts in the Boston Newspaper Guild's refusal to accept a deal that "called for smaller benefit cuts and a furlough, but a higher … Continue reading →

Posted in Healthcare, Media Business | Tagged Boston Globe, Editor & Publisher, Joe Strupp, New York Times, unions | 1 Comment

Honduras Coup Talks 'Presented as Progress' in NYT

Posted on 07/20/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Citing a Committee of Family Members of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras report "detailing hundreds of cases of human rights abuses committed by the coup regime, including four political assassinations," Ogg Blog's Chuck Ogg (7/17/09) notes that "the situation is … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged Chuck Ogg, Committee of Family Members of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, coup, Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, New York Times, Ogg Blog, resolution 630, School of the Americas | 1 Comment

NYT Sotomayor 'Analysis' = What Republicans Are Thinking

Posted on 07/17/2009 by Peter Hart

Under the headline "Future Nominations Are at Stake in Hearing," New York Times reporters Peter Baker and Charlie Savage suggested that Sonia Sotomayor's nomination is a given; the real battle among partisans and legal activists is "to define the parameters … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Charlie Savage, New York Times, Peter Baker, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court | 8 Comments

When Reporters Are Present, Yet 'Fail to Bear Witness'

Posted on 07/16/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Arianna Huffington's latest column (Huffington Post, 7/13/09) presents a compelling portrayal of the power of new democratic media–versus the self-preserving corporate model of news gathering–in the Chinese government response to major riots last week: "It choked off the Internet and … Continue reading →

Posted in International, Iraq, Media Business | Tagged Arianna Huffington, China, Huffington Post, Judith Miller, New York Times, protest, Twitter, Xinjiang | 2 Comments

NYT and the Pro-Withdrawal Majority (of 2004)

Posted on 07/15/2009 by Peter Hart

New York Times reporter John F. Burns turned in a piece on Sunday about the debate in Britain over the Afghanistan war ("Criticism of Afghan War Is on the Rise in Britain," 7/12/09), in light of the increase in British … Continue reading →

Posted in Media Criticism | Tagged Afghanistan, Britain, Iraq, John Burns, New York Times, withdrawal | 2 Comments

Ben Stein and NYT 'Get Really Seriously Wrong'

Posted on 07/14/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Stating quite succinctly how "there is an ongoing issue about whether global warming deniers should be treated seriously by the media, given that they have about as much scientific support for their position as the flat-Earth crew," economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, Environment | Tagged Beat the Press, Ben Stein, Dean Baker, global warming, mortgage crisis, New York Times | Leave a comment

NYT's 'Egregious and Absurd' Editorial Priorities

Posted on 07/13/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Brad Jacobson is resurrecting the "NYT Front|Back" feature of his Media Bloodhound blog (7/10/09)–spotlighting the New York Times' "penchant for placing a supremely unnewsworthy story on its cover while burying a vital one in its back pages"–only for "the most … Continue reading →

Posted in International, Media Business | Tagged Brad Jacobson, Guantanamo, John McCain, law, Media Bloodhound, New York Times, NYT Front|Back, sensationalism, torture | 1 Comment

The Gulf Between Africa and 'the West'

Posted on 07/12/2009 by Peter Hart

In a News Analysis piece (7/11/09), New York Times reporter Adam Nossiter attempts to illustrate the difference between some African countries and more enlightened nations, writing: The gulf separating the West and many African leaders on fundamental issues like human … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged Adam Nossiter, Darfur, International Criminal Court, New York Times, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan | 3 Comments

Colonialism Endures 'Without Being Seen to Do So'

Posted on 07/12/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Michael Schwartz' (TomDispatch, 7/9/09) quote from a New York Times Baghdad report that "much of the complicated work of dismantling and removing millions of dollars of equipment from the combat outposts in the city has been done during the dark … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq | Tagged Baghdad, Christian Science Monitor, colonialism, Jane Arraf, Michael Schwartz, New York Times, TomDispatch, troop withdrawal | Leave a comment

NYT's 'Blatant Lie' Now 'Embedded Fact… as Intended'

Posted on 07/10/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Salon's Glenn Greenwald (7/9/09, ad-viewing required) is extolling "The Significance of McClatchy's Act of Journalism" when reporting that recently released six-year GuantÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™Ãƒâ€šÂ¡namo prisoner Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil–one of many who supposedly "returned to or are suspected of returning to terrorism … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq | Tagged Elisabeth Bumiller, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo, Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil, Judith Miller, McClatchy, Michael Gordon, Nancy Youssef, New York Times, Salon, terrorism | Leave a comment

When Corporate Media Report on Corporate Medicine

Posted on 07/09/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Writing at his regular Beat the Press blog (7/8/09), economist Dean Baker says that the New York Times' David Leonhardt "rightly complains that President Obama's health care plan does nothing to change the incentives for doctors to prescribe expensive forms … Continue reading →

Posted in Healthcare | Tagged Beat the Press, David Leonhardt, Dean Baker, drug patents, New York Times, Washington Post | 4 Comments

Moral Perversity and the McNamara Toll

Posted on 07/07/2009 by Jim Naureckas

In the sixth paragraph of his front-page obituary of Vietnam War-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (7/7/09), the New York Times' Tim Weiner tries–and fails–to give some idea of the human cost of McNamara's war: Half a million American soldiers went … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged New York Times, Robert McNamara, Tim Weiner, Vietnam War | 1 Comment

Iraq: 'Supreme' War Crime, or Simply 'Unnecessary'?

Posted on 07/06/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

As Barack Obama and his pliant media pundits are "talking up the achievements of the six-year occupation," Consortium News' Robert Parry (7/1/09) is writing of the "public celebrations by Iraqis marking the American pullout from Iraq's cities." Parry's look back … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq | Tagged Consortium News, George W. Bush, impeachment, New York Times, Robert Parry | 5 Comments

Big Media 'Lenses…Ground With Ideology, Nationalism'

Posted on 07/02/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Noticing that "the New York Times used three square inches of newsprint on Tuesday to dispatch two U.S. Army soldiers under the headline 'Names of the Dead,'" Norman Solomon (Common Dreams, 7/1/09) points out how apparently "there wasn't enough room … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged Afghanistan, Common Dreams, New York Times, Norman Solomon, war | Leave a comment

CNN: 'Making Blacks Look Bad' So 'Whites Feel Good'

Posted on 06/30/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Ishmael Reed's contextualization (CounterPunch, 6/29/09) of the epic demonization of Michael Jackson within historical U.S. media racism also takes a swipe at CNN's Black in America program, "an exercise meant to boost ratings by making whites feel good by making … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertisers, Race | Tagged Black in America, Charles Blow, CNN, CounterPunch, homophobia, Ishmael Reed, New York Times, Soledad O'Brien | 4 Comments