http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nyt/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:06:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418951/posts Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and tourists braved snow, rain and frigid temperatures last night and early this morning to be a part of the world's most famous welcome to the new year. "It was well worth the frozen toes," said Zach Thomas, 20, of Connecticut, moments after Mayor Bloomberg pushed the button to start the 12-foot, 11,875-pound Waterford crystal ball's descent over Times Square. Richa Pandey, 20, who's from sunny Southern California, was not turned off by the cold. "I like the weather," she said. "It's full of surprises. Just like the city." REUTERS Fireworks and light shows... The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418951/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:06:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417424/posts Q. Were you close to George Bush? A. No, I’ve never met him. I don’t know Cheney either. I have not gone hunting with him, which is probably a good thing for me. ---snip--- Q. So you’re saying you were just one notch above an intern, you and Monica Lewinsky? A. She was much closer to the president than I ever was. ----snip---- Q. Are you saying the citizens of Berkeley are Communists, reminiscent of those on the dark side of the Iron Curtain? A. There are probably more Communists in Berkeley than any other town in America, but I... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417424/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:39:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415895/posts You could take the borscht out of the Catskills, but you'll never get "the borscht belt" out of a lead of a New York Times story about the Catskills. Mark my words. After you read theirs. No matter what the story is about, where it gets placed in the paper or when it gets published, the Old Gray Lady will forever bleed beet red when telling a tale about Sullivan County. They can't help it. Such was the case last week, when the metro desk of the newspaper decided to remind its baby boomer readers that the one-time vacation destination... Times Herald-Record Middletown, NY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415895/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:06:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415596/posts As my brother Kevin headed off to Christmas Eve Mass in the Maryland suburbs, I asked him how he thought the first year of Barack Obama had gone. He didn’t have to pray long over that one. “Fine,” he replied, “if you like unmitigated disasters like the Hindenburg and the Redskins season.” If it’s Christmas, it must be time for my conservative brother to take over my column and turn it a blazing shade of red. So without further ado, here is Kevin unplugged, offering a perspective from “the real America,” as one of his favorite Republican philosophers, Sarah Palin,... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415596/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:04:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415265/posts Imagine that there had been a series of three incidents in which members of a [invented for present purposes] fanatical Jewish sect had attempted to bring down airliners from Arab countries. In reporting on the latest attempt and describing the previous ones, do you think the New York Times might have mentioned the religion of the perpetrators? So do I. But with the ledgermain required to describe a spiral staircase without using one's hands, the Gray Lady has managed in its article today to report yesterday's attempt to bring down a NWA airliner, and the earlier attempts by Richard Reid... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415265/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:19:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409808/posts Let us contemplate the badness of Joe Lieberman. Who would have thought that this holiday season we’d be obsessed with the senator from Connecticut? Really, I was hoping it would be more about shopping for mittens on the Internet. Lieberman’s apparently successful attempt to hijack health care reform and hold it hostage until it had been amended into something that liberals couldn’t stomach has mesmerized the nation’s political class. This was, after all, a guy who has been a liberal on domestic issues since he was a college student campaigning for John F. Kennedy. A guy who was in favor... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409808/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:53:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402473/posts Insiders say around 60 NYT employees will take buyouts. You can add two new names to the growing list of New York Times staffers who are taking the buyouts offered by the newspaper in its efforts to downsize its staff. The newest names are: Stephen Labaton, who has been covering financial regulation and reform for the paper; and Edmund Andrews, a long time economic editor for the paper who wrote a book, Busted, about his own financial woes. (That's him pictured with his family in the pic.) Labaton's acceptance had been reported earlier. (See here for Gawker's full list of... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402473/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:05:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400942/posts Why did the New York Times scrub out news that it broke about the White House-crashing couple’s ties to an organization that supports Islamic terrorism? Yes, Tareq Salahi, the male half of the couple who crashed the White House State Dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is a Palestinian and likely Muslim. And not only that he’s an activist Palestinian who is likely Muslim, and who is on the board of the Muslim-dominated American Task Force on Palestine... Debbie Schlussel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400942/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:35:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400906/posts New York Times Staffers Freaking As Bill Keller Raises The Axe Keith Kelly|Dec. 4, 2009, 11:10 PM | 61 | With just days to go until a Monday deadline, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller yesterday confirmed that he was unlikely to get 100 newsroom volunteers to accept buyouts -- meaning he'll wield the layoff ax for the second time in two years. Sources said the newsroom was in a state of high anxiety this week because of chatter that just 50 unionized editorial workers from the Newspaper Guild are expected to step forward for voluntary buyouts by the... Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400906/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399141/posts The daily propaganda which masquerades as news and as learned opinion has just gotten my goat. Yesterday, the New York Times published an editorial condemning Switzerland as “intolerant” for having voted to ban minarets—minarets, not mosques. God, I cannot recall an editorial in their pages condemning Arab and Muslim countries for not allowing any Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, or Hindu and Bahai temples to be built. Nor has the Paper of Record really focused on the real refugee story in the Middle East: that of Arab Jews who were forced to flee the Islamic world and came as refugees to... Chesler Chronicles / Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399141/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:10:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396006/posts It only took them three years to figure it out, of course. The Gray Lady’s ire focuses on the disaster Obama has made of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which is usually a rolling disaster anyway. American Presidents haven’t been able to do much to make it better, but as the Times explains, this one’s made it a lot worse than it had to be — mainly because he’s a diplomatic novice with team full of incompetents (via Geoff A): Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396006/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:11:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392370/posts This is the position of the New York Times when given the chance to publish sensitive information that might hinder the liberal agenda. Of course, when the choice is between publishing classified information that might endanger the lives of U.S. troops in the field or intelligence programs vital to national security, that information is published without hesitation by the nation's paper of record. Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392370/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:08:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391420/posts Somewhere in New York, a design genius turned out her light and breathed the long sigh of one no longer burdened by a terrible secret, a secret that had helped ruin the reputation of an amazing woman, a woman she had really liked. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391420/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388399/posts NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said. Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney's office searched circulation offices of The New York Times in Queens, the New York Post and the Daily News in Manhattan, and El Diario in Brooklyn, the official said, speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Investigators were seeking paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, which packages and delivers... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388399/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:34:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388400/posts Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said. Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney's office searched circulation offices of The New York Times in Queens, the New York Post and the Daily News in Manhattan, and El Diario in Brooklyn, the official said, speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Investigators were seeking paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, which packages and delivers newspapers across the region.... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388400/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:34:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387128/posts While one can agree or disagree with Maureen Dowd's portrayal of Goldman Sachs and other bankers (column, Nov. 11), her statement that "the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple" potentially raises one of the classic themes of anti-Semitism linking Jews and abhorrent money-lending practices. However unintentional, Ms. Dowd's invoking the New Testament story to illustrate our current financial mess conjures up old prejudices against Jews. ADL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387128/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:15:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386904/posts The days of quiet diplomacy between the government of Israel and the New York Times are over. Israel has declared an uprecedented war against the New York Times, for what it calls tendentious and unfair coverage of the Jewish state. At the focus of the storm is the Goldstone report. The Israeli delegation in the UN sent an official complaint to the newspaper's editorial board. The complaint, signed by the Israel UN delegation's spokeswoman, Mirit Cohen, says that the newspaper uses subjective negative language about Israel and failed in writing fair and accurate coverage. The New York Times has yet... Israelbehindthenews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386904/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386561/posts “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin’s erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message during the campaign: among other things, for breaking with the campaign over its media strategy, its decision to pull out of Michigan and for speaking out about reports that the Republican Party had spent more than $150,000 on fancy designer duds for her and her family. In fact, the most sustained and vehement barbs in this book are directed not at Democrats or liberals or the press, but at the McCain campaign. The very campaign... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386561/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:15:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385244/posts The New York Times News Service will lay off at least 25 editorial employees next year and will move the editing of the service to a Florida newspaper owned by The New York Times Company, the newspaper and the Newspaper Guild said Thursday... The plan for the news service calls for The Gainesville Sun, whose newsroom is not unionized and has lower salaries, to take over editing and page design. Ms. McNulty said new jobs would be created at The Sun to handle the work. ny times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385244/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:01:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2382150/posts As freedom-lovers throughout the world celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the freedom-lovers at the New York Times, if there are any, have to be reflecting on that paper's own role in the Wall's construction. As it happens, no English-speaker was more responsible for the savage sprawl of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain that reinforced it than the Times' own ace reporter, Walter Duranty. In November 1933, the one-legged reporter had come to Washington, D.C. from Moscow to witness President Roosevelt officially recognize the Soviet Union. Duranty knew, and everyone else knew, that... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2382150/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:28:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2381799/posts Am I the only one upset that Chris Wallace and Fox News Sunday's "person of the week" was Jason Blair? This NYT liar was given this "honor" because he is now a "life coach" and uses the excuse of "bipolar" disease. This truly signifies the death of shame. Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2381799/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:27:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377685/posts Want more evidence print media is giving way to digital formats? According to CNBC "Squawk on the Street" Nov. 3, Internet behemoth Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) could have its sights set on The New York Times (NYSE:NYT). Brian Shactman, a general assignment reporter for CNBC noted an article in the Nov. 2 Wall Street Journal that indicated a lot of big companies are hoarding cash and short term investments and it pointed out the information technology sector had nearly $280 billion to invest. ...more (w/video)... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377685/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:22:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2374871/posts New York City, N.Y., Oct 30, 2009 / 11:14 am (CNA).- The New York Times declined to publish an op-ed presented by the Archbishop of New York, Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, in which he made the point that the “Gray Lady” has been reporting stories with a strong anti-Catholic bias. In his new blog on the archdiocese’s website, Archbishop Dolan explains that his article was submitted in a slightly shorter form to the New York Times as an op-ed, but the Times declined to publish it. In the blog version, Archbishop Dolan says that next to baseball, “sadly, America... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2374871/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371061/posts THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- 2,024,269 -- 0.61% USA TODAY -- 1,900,116 -- (-17.15%) THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 927,851 -- (-7.28%) LOS ANGELES TIMES -- 657,467 -- (-11.05%) THE WASHINGTON POST -- 582,844 -- (-6.40%) DAILY NEWS (NEW YORK) -- 544,167 -- (-13.98%) NEW YORK POST -- 508,042 -- (-18.77%) CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- 465,892 -- (-9.72%) HOUSTON CHRONICLE -- 384,419 -- (-14.24%) THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER -- 361,480 -- N/A NEWSDAY -- 357,124 -- (-5.40%) THE DENVER POST -- 340,949 -- N/A THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC -- 316,874 -- (-12.30%) STAR TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS -- 304,543 -- (-5.53%) CHICAGO SUN-TIMES -- 275,641... Editor & Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371061/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2371014/posts taylor s. nh October 26th, 2009 8:46 am I find this editorial incredible. The only people happy with the Massachusetts plan are the poor and the rich. All levels of the middle class are hurt by this plan. You know, I have voted Democrat all of my adult life; but I'm starting to believe what some conservatives say about the mission of the Democrat Party being to completely destroy the middle class. The bankers, industrialists, and corporate ceos all finnacially support the Democrat party, today, along with the great un-educated unwashed masses. Who is going to stand up for the... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2371014/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:32:59 GMT