Pages that have commented on the New York Times
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2006

March 16

• Ann Coulter on how Claude Allen is the Times’ kind of conservative:
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• James Risen and Eric Lichtblau win the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their NSA “Domestic Spying” scoop (apparently the paper’s own misleading name for the report):
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March 15

• Fox’s Brit Hume thinks the Times violated a basic tenet of journalism in its interview with an alleged victim of torture at Abu Ghraib:
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March 14

• Did the Times talk to the wrong man in its front-page story on an Abu Ghraib prisoner?:
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• Did a Times story on body armor put lives at risk?:
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March 13

• Columnist Marc Steyn on the absence of the M-word in a Times article on the UNC man who tried to mow down fellow students in the name of Allah:
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March 10

• The public relations firm Edelman responds to Michael Barbaro’s piece on Edelman sending positive news about Wal-Mart to sympathetic bloggers:
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• Diana West on what’s left out of the Times’ recent three-part series on a Brooklyn imam:
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March 9

• Despite what a front-page story in the Times argued, parental notification laws may reduce teen abortions after all:
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• Rumbles of dissent as a Times financial columnist speaks up at a meeting about the big bonuses given to the paper’s top executives:
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March 8

• More on Times reporter Michael Barbaro’s overblown interest in pro-Wal-Mart bloggers:
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• Tumult among Times staff regarding well-compensated higher-ups emerges in a meeting with publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.:
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• Typically, the Times focuses on the negative in Iraq, reports National Review Online:
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March 6

• Byron York exposes the hypocrisy of Executive Editor Bill Keller regarding leak investigations:
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• Iraq Now ponders a bizarre series of foreign-policy related corrections in the Times:
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• The New Republic scores the paper’s surprising Oscar obsession:
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• Pro-Wal-Mart PR targeted to bloggers is being investigated by the Times. But what about the anti-Wal-Mart PR that appears in the Times on a regular basis?:
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March 3

• Donald Luskin gets results -- a Paul Krugman correction:
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• The drive for racial diversity is failing at the NYT (meanwhile, a drive for political diversity has yet to be considered):
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March 2

• Mickey Kaus mocks over-excited Times headlines:
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• James Bennet, formerly a pro-Palestinian correspondent in Israel, is the new editor for The Atlantic:
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March 1

• White House correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller is taking book leave in June to write a biography of Condoleezza Rice:
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• Captains Quarters wonders why the Times is suddenly concerned about “civil war” in Iraq, given that civil war is the way liberals favored the overthrow of Saddam:
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February 28

• Slate’s Jack Shafer on Times ombudsman Barney Calame’s habit of bringing tweezers to a gunfight:
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• CBS News blogger Vaughn Ververs blog sees hypocrisy in a Times editorial on the Mohammad cartoons:
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February 27

• Amy Menefee of the Free Market Project defends T. Boone Pickens:
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• Mary Katharine Ham on the original version of a Wal-Mart story by Michael Barbaro in which some liberal slant slipped through:
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• More on the Times’ Wal-Mart reporter Barbaro, who appears to be sniffing around blogs:
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February 24

• A NYT op-ed contributor made false statements about mosques in Copenhagen, but has no regrets:
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• National Review Online wonders if the Times is truly opposed to the UAE ports deal -- or just opposed to anything Bush does:
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• Donald Luskin proves economics professor/columnist Paul Krugman flubs basic math when it gets in the way of linking Bush to Jack Abramoff:
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February 23

• “Attempting to Calm Islamic Anger, New York Times Reprints Dung-Covered Madonna Picture” A parody (we hope):
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February 22

• The Discovery Institute faults a Times story on a petition signed by scientists casting doubts on evolution:
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February 21

• Was a journalism student excluded from a Times internship because his professor was critical of the paper?
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• Jason Maoz in the Jewish Press on what the Times ignores (Al Gore going to Saudi Arabia and excoriating America, for one):
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February 20

• Maureen Dowd muffs the facts on Lewis Libby -- Dick Cheney didn’t authorize him to leak Valerie Plame’s identity:
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• Jane Galt thinks Paul Krugman could use some time off:
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February 17

• The Times is making it easier for readers to email reporters and editors:
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February 15

• Charles Simpson at the Free Market Project on how a “Times reporter pits oil profits against anti-poverty initiatives.”
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February 14

• Roger Cohen becomes editor-at-large for the Times international edition, the International Herald-Tribune:
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• The International Republican Institute responds to a front-page hit piece on its work for democracy in Haiti:
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February 13

• The MRC’s Brent Baker listens as the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence faults the Times for its NSA spy scoop:
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February 10

• Reported turned media columnist David Carr on the Bushies: “I mean, these guys seem to like war pretty well, and they're not very good at it.” :
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• Over at The New Republic, Keelin McDonell doesn’t like Times substitute columnist Sarah Vowell much at all:
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February 9

• National Review’s Kate O’Beirne on Maureen Dowd, whiner:
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February 8

• Tax reporter David Cay Johnston says higher taxes on the rich are vital to democracy:
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• Bill O’Reilly responds to NYT reporter Nicholas Kristof:
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February 7

• Columnist Nicholas Kristof is raising money to send Bill O’Reilly to Darfur:
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• Cathy Seipp takes on “sanctimonious” NYT reporter David Cay Johnston at National Review Online:
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February 6

• Columnist Paul Krugman speaks at an “Inequality Matters” conference sponsored by left-wing radio network Air America:
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February 3

• Did the Times violate the espionage act with its scoop based on leaked information on NSA spying?:
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February 2

• Noel Sheppard relays the stark difference in the media’s (including the Times’) coverage of good and bad economic news under Bush:
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January 31

• John Hinderaker at PowerLine rips into the Times “lying” editorial on Bush and wiretapping:
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January 30

• The Times runs a book review from the Washington bureau chief of The Economist and discusses the conservative movement’s “wild-eyed lunacy.”:
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• A sad day: Mediacrity gives up on Times public editor Barney Calame:
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