Posts tagged “New York Times”
Taking A Candidates Word For It
Earlier today, the New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane wrote an interesting piece that delved into the question of whether the news media should add disclaimers to quotes by political figures that can demonstrably be proven false. Brisbane phrased it like this: I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should [...]
A friendly reminder from the New York Times about the Tea Party
The New York Times ran a scathing Op-Ed piece today called “Crashing the Tea Party” that examines the political makeup of voters who identify themselves with the Tea Party. Using longitudinal polling data that looked at voters’ political attitudes during 2006 and 2011, the writers found that the Tea Party was not – Spoiler Alert! [...]
NYT: The Return Of The Good Old Days
The New York Times is furiously wiping something off its face, and it doesn’t look like egg to me. Once again, they have been caught simply making up stuff and passing it along, hiding behind the flimsy skirts of the anonymous source routine: McClatchy Newpapers is reporting that “U.S. officials” are contending that there is [...]
Long Live Democracy! And Journalism!
(1) Isn’t democracy wonderful? (Note: the article has been revised slightly since I pulled the quotes used here.) Seven weeks after Iraqis went to the polls, a special elections court disqualified a winning parliamentary candidate, likely reversing the narrow defeat of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s coalition and possibly allowing him the first chance to [...]
Conflicts Of Interest, Tra La La …
The notion of conflict of interest seems to be going out of style. For starters, neither the New York Times nor former Attorney General John Ashcroft care very much about the concept: You can say one thing for John Ashcroft: he’s not short on chutzpah. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, the former [...]