NY Times signals Kamala that her White House ambitions are hopeless February 6, 2023Thomas Lifson
In the old days of the USSR, Kremlinologists used to figure out who was in and who was out in the power struggles at the top by looking at the reviewing stand for the May Day military parades. Today, major articles in the New York Times serve a similar signalling function.
NYT doubling down on scandal-mongering Trump January 4, 2022Thomas Lifson
If there were a 12-step program for media, the New York Times and much of the rest of the legacy media would benefit from admitting that they are addicted to Donald Trump and powerless to overcome it on their own.
New York Times throws The Lincoln Project overboard March 9, 2021Thomas Lifson
Now that it is no longer useful to enhancing the power of Democrats, The Lincoln Project is utterly dispensable and is being exposed for grifting by the premier house organ of the Democrats.
An obituary for The New York Times April 13, 2020Michael Widlanski
I recently read a New York Times obituary that accidentally summarized the last years of The New York Times, a once great newspaper.
NY Times infested with bedbugs August 27, 2019Thomas Lifson
New species of blood-sucking leeches discovered in the Beltway, rat-borne typhus outbreak in LA, and now bedbugs infesting the NYT. Is Mother Nature sending a message to progressives?
The Devil and Ross Douthat February 11, 2019Peter Nichols
A recent piece by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, “The Covington Scissor,” presents a dialogue between him and a mysterious Voice, which he finds “devilish.”
Does the New York Times have a guilty conscience? September 12, 2018Monica Showalter
Just days after printing news that is sure to get a lot of Venezuelans tortured and killed, the New York Times is now trying to justify its irresponsible coverage by piously lecturing President Trump on something he never got involved in. Anyone here smell a guilty conscience?
North Korea ditches anti-US propaganda June 24, 2018Thomas Lifson
MSM ignoring a potent signal that Kim Jong-un has succeeded in persuading the rest of his regime to go along with denuclearization and ending its rogue regime status after meeting with Presient Trump in Singapore.
Do liberals really idolize deported felons? March 12, 2018Ed Straker
It used to be that when the liberal media wrote articles about deported illegal aliens, they would pick aliens who had the most sympathetic life stories. Now they are writing sob stories about illegals who are deported felons, even deported murderers.
Outsourcing the New York Times news June 26, 2017Thomas Lifson
Lay off editorial staff and just let the special interest groups write the news. It's happening out in the open at the failing New York Times.
Is Frank Bruni going bonkers? March 30, 2017Monica Showalter
Is Frank Bruni melting down? He's so mad at House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes that he can't figure out how to insult him properly.
Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore? June 17, 2016Thomas Lipscomb
Former New York Times exec says that based on reporting of the Orlando shooter's gun, "Let them die. There isn’t enough decent reporting left in them to be worth resuscitation. Time to find new ways with new media."
Sunday the Rabbi Got Smeared May 31, 2015Richard N. Weltz
Why is the New York Times targeting an orthodox rabbi despite the absence of any incriminating evidence, as well as the Rabbi's many scholarly and clerical achievements?
More Trouble at the New York Times December 24, 2014Thomas Lifson
High drama at the Times as journalistic peons get sacked while members of the ownership family continue to pull in millions. Closer to feudalism than socialism at the leftist icon.
The beatification of Michael Brown August 25, 2014Thomas Lifson
After the video appeared of the robbery and theft, a new narrative was needed for Michael Brown. The New York Times steps up and portrays his angelic nature.
NYT Tries to Get Israel in Dutch August 18, 2014Richard N. Weltz
What could be a better tale upon which to hang a story painting Israel as a nation of murdering racists than the one told on Friday’s New York Times?
Did Susan Rice Really Lie? January 4, 2014Bill Schanefelt
Maybe that Mohammed video did, in fact, play a part in last year's attack on the Special Mission Compound in Benghazi after all.
Income, IQ, and Effort December 1, 2013Thomas Lifson
London's mayor Boris Johnson has poked the liberal hornet's nest on the relationship of ability and effort to income. The ensuing fury is amusing, to say the least.
The New York Times vs. Netanyahu October 17, 2013Jerold S. Auerbach
The Times continues to be true to its long history of discomfort with Zionism, indifference to the plight of European Jews, and constant criticism of Israel.
Obama's Missing Pressure Group September 4, 2013Ed Lasky
Barack Obama has enlisted various groups to pressure Congress to give him authority to take military action in Syria. But curiously, one particular group has remained off his list
Common problem June 28, 2013Rosslyn Smith
What does the Governor and Legislature of Illinois have in common with the Management of the New York Times Company- besides a liberal worldview, that is?
The Tsarnaev Meme Wars Begin April 20, 2013Thomas Lifson
Boston and the nation have gone through a trauma and a degree of catharsis over the attack in Boston, and now the battle to define how we discuss that incident and the perps is underway.
Another Hockey Stick? March 13, 2013S. Fred Singer
Green forces, eager to promote their theories of global warming, appear to be practicing intellectual recycling. Is this the return of the notorious hockey stick - which, in 2001, was the central dogma of Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Barack Æthelred Obama November 5, 2012Ed Timperlake
The New York Times is now allowing the President's team to try and throw the US Military under the very crowded pile of people and institutions squashed by his reelection bus.
The Conformative Liberal Media October 29, 2012Bruce Johnson
Money talks. It confirms and sponsors activities deemed worthy of investment and return. Ironically, it may be capitalism itself that leads to the rejection and consequently the decline of the liberal media.
How Liberals Screw the 47 Percent September 25, 2012Christopher Chantrill
How to build a welfare state that imprisons 47 percent of Americans or more under the bureaucratic domination of the administrative welfare state and that keeps that 47 percent voting Democratic.
