http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nytimes/ en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:56:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410109/posts To grasp the underlying anti-Zionist viewpoint prevalent in New York Times coverage of Israel and the Palestinians, one need look no farther than Ethan Bronner's ruminations in the December 16 edition, ("Israelis and Palestinians Ponder Surprising Role for Netanyahu: Peacemaker," page A6. Bronner starts by reporting that Aluf Benn, a senior columnist at the "left-leaning" Haaretz newspaper, recently wrote that he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seriously interested in making concessions to the Palestinians to achieve a two-state solution. Bronner then reports that Benn was attacked by many colleagues, politicians and friends who firmly disagreed that Netanyahu could be... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410109/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:56:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409453/posts This incredible revelation came to light in a letter Monday from Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thompson to a number of news organizations. It was a response to a NY Times article by David Carr entitled “Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at the Journal.” Carr's somewhat snarky article accused the Journal of tainting its reputation as “one of the crown jewels of journalism” into a more mundane conservative newspaper and that it was assuming a pro-business, anti government stance. The Times accusing the Journal of sullying its reputation with biased journalism??? What chutzpah! The Journal’s response was quoted in Editor... Island Turtle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409453/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:24:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409216/posts It's a "pretty grim atmosphere" over at the Times today, when layoffs are coming down from on high as the paper tries to reach the 100-person editorial cut it announced earlier this fall. While 74 staff members took the buyout, that left 26 to go. Layoffs have been ongoing all day, sources tell us, with the unlucky few people called upstairs out of the newsroom — where now people are "standing around in clumps and obviously talking about everything." Here's the list of names that we know so far who have gotten the ax, and their departments: Eric Konigsberg —... New York Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409216/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:37:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405961/posts A new addition to the New York Times annual Holiday Gift Guide has sparked a minor uproar after a blog devoted to critiquing the paper termed it "racist." Included in this year's guide, which was published in November, is a page titled "Of Color/Stylish Gifts." This first-time feature is described by the paper as "gifts created for and by people of color." After going virtually unnoticed by critics for a month, the guide's been widely slammed in the past week as a collection of "backhanded insults" which are "bordering on offensive" and "out of touch." Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405961/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:24:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405329/posts New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller and Chairman/Publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger are both gearing up to play the Grinch who stole Christmas and lay off a couple dozen staffers. That didn't keep them from stopping by the paper's front-page conference room Tuesday night, where the latest round of downsized journalists had gathered for a final goodbye. Neither addressed the crowd, but instead milled around and made small talk, according to one of the disappeared. The employees, who had accepted buyout packages, left the company by yesterday, many with two years of severance. The two executives will be making hard... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405329/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:46:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404457/posts The New York Times '09 Holiday Gift Guide page has some intriguing suggestions. There's the "Holiday Books Guide," the "Personal Tech Holiday Gift Guide," the guide for people of color...Wait. A separate gift page for people of color? Yes. The NYT Picker blog noticed the Times has a special gift section for non-whites: We don't like to throw around words like "racist" in the same sentence as the NYT's name, but there's no other word we can think of to describe this page in the NYT's annual Holiday Gift Guide -- called "Of Color/Stylish Gifts" and aimed exclusively at... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404457/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:28:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403937/posts I would like to know is who thought this was a good idea? In this year’s NYT’s Annual Holiday Gift Guide there is a section devoted to “Of Color | Stylish Gifts.” From the intro to the section. Somali fashion, do-it-yourself henna kits, children’s books that draw inspiration from the lives of Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor: it’s not hard to find gifts created for and by people of color this holiday season. Here are some possibilities. I had to read that twice. Because really New York Times? NYTPicker, who was the first to note the addition thinks there’s no... Mediaite via Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403937/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:48:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403317/posts Stanley Fish in his NY Times blog Opinionator reviews Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue. It is a very satisfying analysis for those who admire her, of which I am one. But it is totally out of character for the Times. Read it. It finishes with these words: "But run she does (and falls, but so what?), and when it is all over and she has lost the vice presidency and resigned the governorship, she goes on a long run and rehearses in her mind the eventful year she has chronicled. And as she runs, she achieves equilibrium and hope: “We’ve... Island Turtle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403317/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:58:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403313/posts Stanley Fish in his NY Times blog Opinionator reviews Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue. It is a very satisfying analysis for those who admire her, of which I am one. But it is totally out of character for the Times. Read it. It finishes with these words: "But run she does (and falls, but so what?), and when it is all over and she has lost the vice presidency and resigned the governorship, she goes on a long run and rehearses in her mind the eventful year she has chronicled. And as she runs, she achieves equilibrium and hope: 'We’ve... Island Turtle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403313/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:53:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402778/posts ..You say: “We here at The Times are not scientists. We don’t collect the data or analyze it, and so the best we can do is to give our readers a sense of what the prevailing scientific view is, based on interviews with scientists” and the expertise of reporters like Revkin." Precisely...the NYT picks and chooses what conforms to your opinion. The NYT has been very biased and has not presented over several years the many differing scientific opinions on man-made global warming. Science is not a discipline of consensus. You have primarily emphasized one position and clearly minimized or... nytimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402778/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:47:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402620/posts Stanley Fish of the New York Times actually wrote a very very positive review of Sarah Palin’s: Going Rogue An American Life: Sarah Palin is Coming to Town. When I walked into the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan last week, I headed straight for the bright young thing who wore an “Ask Me” button, and asked her to point me to the section of the store where I might find Sarah Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” She looked at me as if I had requested a copy of “Mein Kampf” signed in blood by the author, and directed me... Governor Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402620/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 05:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402173/posts going to collapse if we don't pass this Democrat slush fund called the "stimulus bill" tomorrow, the world is going to boil over in 3 months unless we turn our lives upside-down to stop global warming, our "moral standing" in the world is being damaged by Republican strategies in the war on terror, black churches are going to burn because America is a racist country, and millions of Americans are going to go poor and starving unless government does something to regulate those greedy corporate executives. These, according to Frank Rich — who according to his own writings agrees wholeheartedly... Vocal Minority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402173/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:32:04 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/2400873/posts The New York Times on Friday said it probably will have to lay off newsroom employees, because it doesn't expect to get enough people to volunteer for buyouts. The paper in October announced plans to shed 100 jobs from its 1,250-person newsroom and said it hoped to achieve the reductions entirely through buyouts. Employees were told they had until Dec. 7 to decide whether to take the offer and that the paper would resort to layoffs if too few people volunteered. "We will not know until [Monday] how many Guild and excluded employees have opted to take buyouts, but it... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400873/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398525/posts The “temporary” step down of Phil Jones finally forced the NY Times to do some print coverage of the scandal. Missing from the story are any quotes from the incendiary emails and very little about reaction of other scientists over this growing scandal.... The Times’ emphasis on the criminal aspect of the email release, is more than somewhat laughable in light of some of its rather questionable leaks of highly classified comint information. But the important point here is the Times has simply played the same old game of attempting to suppress a story that has been burning up the... Island Turtle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398525/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:08:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396702/posts After its miserable failure to cover the O’Keefe/Giles expose of ACORN, the MSM is striving for a repeat performance in ClimateGate with near silence. This is a story of “hacked” emails from the Hadley Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the UK that were made public about 12 days ago. It is a story of the top climate research scientists cooking the data, queering the peer review process and encouraging each other to destroy data covered by two nations’ Freedom of Information Acts. Coverage by the nation’s two “leading” newspapers has been underwhelming. A total of three print... Island Turtle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396702/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:58:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393201/posts Shocking, but true! The ultra-liberal New York Times is concerned about the national debt and deficit spending? I can't believe my eyes! This ranks right up there with Socialist France, formerly Communist Russia, and Communist China warning our government that they're spending too much money. Has the "Old Gray Lady" awakened to the realization that money doesn't grow on trees? THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393201/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:33:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392706/posts Many conservative sources have been predicting problems for the United States Economy based on the record-setting national debt whose growth has been accelerated during the first year of the Obama Administration. Today in a front page, top of the fold story, the "Bible of Progressiveness," the NY Times has joined the conservatives in predicting severe problems for the US economy based on the fiscal irresponsibility of our government. In this first article of a series, the Times looks at the structure of the debt and how it looms as a danger on the country's horizon. The United States Economy has... NY TIMES/THE LID http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392706/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:01:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391976/posts It’s easy to dismiss Sarah Palin. She’s back on the trail, with the tumbling hair and tumbling thoughts. The queen of the scenic strip mall known as Wasilla now reigns over thrilled subjects thronging to a politically strategic swath of American strip malls. The conservative celebrity clearly hasn’t boned up on anything, except her own endless odyssey of self-discovery. And she still has that Yoda-like syntax. “And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive... New York Times website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391976/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:12:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388479/posts The diaries of the journalist who helped expose the Soviet Terror Famine in the Ukraine are now on display in Cambridge. At the time of his writings he was denounced as a liar by Soviet sympathizers including Walter Duranty of the New York Times. Had he not died in suspicious circumstances he would no doubt have been pleased to see that the truth of his accounts is now accepted, although he would perhaps be disappointed to see that one of the outlets for his writing, the Guardian (then the Manchester Guardian), frequently publishes articles explicitly and implicitly supportive of totalitarian... Johnny Newton blogsite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388479/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:24:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387855/posts International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy or anything else. But let’s hope that when the cameras aren’t rolling Mr. Obama and his hosts engage in some frank talk about currency policy. For the problem of international trade imbalances is about to get substantially worse. And there’s a potentially ugly confrontation looming unless China mends its ways. Some background: Most of the world’s major currencies “float” against one another. That is, their relative values move up or down depending on... New York Times web page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387855/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383071/posts Sept. 1, 1939 Nazis Invade Poland Overcrowding in Germany Cited Sept. 2, 1939 For Nazis, a Hard Time To Be Europeans Neighbors’ Suspicions Caused Stress, Resentment Sept. 3, 1939 In Central Europe, Other Countries Invade Their Neighbors, Too Sept. 4, 1939 When Fuhrers Snap Rallies, Pogroms Took Toll on Leader The Volokh Conspiracy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383071/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382731/posts Staff Sgt. Gilberto Mota, 35, and his wife, Diana, 30, an Army specialist, had returned to Fort Hood from Iraq last year when he used his gun to kill her, and then took his own life, the authorities say. In July, two members of the First Cavalry Division, also just back from the war with decorations for their service, were at a party when one killed the other. That same month, Staff Sgt. Justin Lee Garza, 28, under stress from two deployments, killed himself in a friend’s apartment outside Fort Hood, four days after he was told no therapists were... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382731/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381834/posts Timothy Dolan came to town with a hammer in his hand. Of course, it wasn’t really much of hammer: just a little tappity-tap kind of thing, a tack hammer with a bright blue head, which he used it to rap on the door of St. Patrick’s Cathedral as part of the traditional ceremony for the installation of a new archbishop in New York. That was back on April 15, the Wednesday before Easter. In the six months since, Archbishop Dolan has done hardly any public hammering — until now. On Oct. 29 he used the archdiocese’s website to publish a... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381834/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380988/posts NY Times: Fort Hood Massacre American's Fault The shootings at Fort Hood , however, pose a different problem for the president, by shining a spotlight on the tensions Muslims feel inside the United States. The score at Ft. Hood so far: Muslims 13, Non-muslims 0. The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380988/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:47:16 GMT