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• Gossip site Gawker says the Times should embrace its obvious liberal political bent and abandon "an outmoded notion of objectivity." See Article
• The New York Sun investigates a neighborhood the Times found critically lacking in grocery stores and finds...lots of grocery stores. See Article
• Liberal blogger Ezra Klein takes a bite out of Times' snobbery, saying its tour of chain restaurants in New Jersey is reported like an expedition "visiting rural Mongolia and chewing on caterpillars." See Article
• A Travel section cover photo on nudist vacations is a masterpiece of masking naughty bits, says Jack Shafer at Slate. See Article
• NBC anchor Brian Williams just can't get comfortable with the counterculture cornucopia that is the Sunday Times. See Article
• The Times' Sunday circulation plummeted almost 10% in the latest six-month period. See Article
• Is a mass journalist layoff imminent at the Times? Read Keith Kelly's latest New York Post column. See Article
• At NRO, Steve Emerson accuses the Times of collaborating to free convicted terror supporter Sami al-Arian. See Article
• NYT ad revenue declined 10.6% in the first quarter of 2008, leading to much worse performance than expected. See Article
• The Weekly Standard's Bill Roggio thinks Michael Gordon's report on a company of Iraqi soldiers going derelict in Sadr City missed the big picture: See Article
• Columnist Paul Krugman recycled a health-care horror story -- which had been debunked by the Times itself six days ago, writes Jeff Poor at the Business and Media Institute. See Article
• Why did the Times run with its weak smear of John McCain and a lobbyist? Because it had invested too much time and money to let it go, reports the president of American Journalism Review. See Article
• The NYT Co. refuses to air on its radio station an ad criticizing Palestinian rocket attacks on the Israeli town of Sderot, reports the New York Sun. Check out the company's "stunning" rationale for its decision. See Article
• Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof's blog wins Time.com's booby prize as one of its five most overrated: "It's all Kristof all the time even as wars rage and children starve around him." See Article
• The Sulzberger family's "cluelessness" may eventually deliver the Times into the hands of others, media reporter Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair. See Article
• Slate's Jack Shafer tackled the Times' front-section redesign: Useful shortcut or annoying speedbump? See Article
• The Haditha "massacre" of "unarmed" Iraqis by Marines was headline news at the Times -- until the case against them fell apart, reports National Review's Media Blog. See Article
• Liberal Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is taking a Times buyout and becoming journalist-in-residence at Yale. See Article
• Grasping for hipness, the Times gets "Rick-rolled" -- by a hoax video. Check out Matt Sheffield on Newsbusters. See Article
• Did preachers really talk about Obama's speech on Easter Sunday, or did the Times just want you to think that? Check Slate's Timothy Noah's latest entry in his "Obama Messiah Watch." See Article
• NYT Chairman Sulzberger outsmarted his hedge-fund critics by keeping them close, says Fortune magazine. See Article
• Ignore the "absurd" jobs hysteria from the Times, recommends A Cato Institute scholar in the New York Post. See Article
• The Times takes the concerns of Southern Baptists seriously -- at least when it comes to global warming. Scientists, not so much. Amy Menefee at the Business and Media Institute reports. See Article
• Read Clay Waters' guest column at Townhall on the paper's treatment of John McCain. See Article
• Liberal Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is taking the Times' buyout. See Article
• The Times' recent newsroom layoffs laid bare the fight between the struggling paper's business and journalistic sides, reports Portfolio magazine. See Article
• From The New Republic: How the Times almost endorsed Obama instead of Hillary. See Article
• Slate's journalistic scourge Jack Shafer uncovered a little plagiarism in a recent front-page Times story on illegal drugs in Argentina. See Article
• Liberal writer Michael Kinsley is still trying to puzzle out just what the heck that Times' story on McCain was about. From Slate: See Article
• The Times' failed smear will only help John McCain, says James Taranto at Best of the Web. See Article
• The Times' "front of the book" will get a magazine-style makeover to draw hurried readers, reports the New York Observer. See Article
• Blogger "Charlie Foxtrot" wonders where the Times got the idea there were "Southern Republicans" in the Senate back in the Civil Rights Era of 1964. See Article
• Under pressure from shareholders, the Times is nominating to its board of directors two former board members of....Times bugbears Wal-Mart and Chevron! The New York Sun sees the irony. See Article
• The Times issued a mea culpa on its latest "expose" from Guantanamo: The article's co-author was an anti-Guantanamo activist. See Article
• Steve Emerson on reporter Neil MacFarquhar's latest parroting for the "radical Islamic front group" CAIR at National Review Online: See Article
• The gossip-site Gawker says it's tired of tax reporter David Cay Johnston's "How could you possibly criticize a genius like me?" routine. See Article
• Robert Bateman at the Committee of Concerned Journalists says the Times' "Killer Vets" story was so slimy it "ought to see some editor demoted." See Article
• CBS journalist Bob Schieffer seems to think the Times' criticism of Rudy Giuliani (in its endorsement of McCain) is something for Rudy to be ashamed of. See Article
• Slate's Jack Shafer finds the Times' sushi-scare story very fishy: See Article
• The New Republic talked to some Times vets who had some vulgar opinions about Bill Kristol, the paper's new conservative columnist: See Article
• At National Review Online, Andrew McCarthy accuses the Times of attacking the messenger in the simmering battle between NRO and conflict-ridden Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse: See Article
• National Review blogger Ed Whelan fires back at Public Editor Clark Hoyt's unfounded attack on him, and his pathetic defense of reporter Linda Greehouse.
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• In the tradition of the Times' "Killer Vets" story, IowaHawk undertakes a comprehensive 10-minute investigation and returns with "Bylines of Brutality -- As Casualties Mount, Some Question the Emotional Stability of Media Vets." See Article
• Are homeschoolers dangerous? The Times seems to think so, reports James Taranto at Opinion Journal. See Article
• Chuck Colson punctures the Times' eagerness to discover the long-awaited "evangelical crackup." See Article
• Blogger Megan McCardle unpacks the "statistical garbage" of the Times' "innumerate" story on violent crimes by vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, at The Atlantic. See Article
• Thomas Joscelyn defends Giuliani's view of Al Qaeda against the Times' blame-America stance, at National Review Online. See Article
• Military writer Ralph Peters on the Times' latest smearing of soldiers in the New York Post: See Article
• Even Portfolio's magazine's liberal-leaning media critic thinks the Times has gone "gaga" over Obama. See Article
• NewsBusters' Matt Sheffield discovered the Times has printed 20 letters over the last four years from one Henry A. Lowenstein, yet another "lifelong Republican" who just happens to hate Bush. See Article
• "The Times hires William Kristol [as a columnist], and the illiberal liberals go nuts," Harry Stein writes at the City Journal blog of the Manhattan Institute. See Article
• The Times editorial board sees nothing but economic gloom in 2008, writes Jeff Poor of the Business and Media Institute. See Article
• Reason editor Brian Doherty talks to Times tax reporter David Cay Johnston about his new book, and challenges Johnston from the economic right. See Article
• Could it be? Bill Kristol, dreaded "neo-con," a weekly columnist for the Times? MRC's Tim Graham has the scoop at NewsBusters. See Article
• Jason Maoz, Senior Editor for Jewish Press (and Times Watch Quotes of Note judge) picks his "favorite" quotes from the Times in 2007. See Article
• The Carmel (Ca.) Pine Cone paper has another take on the "nude" picture in the NYT's hefty new fashion supplment -- why is the global-warming-is-a-crisis Times such a "colossal consumer of dead trees"? See Article
• "All the Nudes Fit to Print..." From the New York Post, naturally. See Article
• As the primaries approach, John Mccain pleads with NYT to spike story? Drudge has the story. See Article
• Mickey Kaus quibbles with tax reporter David Cay Johnston's "trademark semi-penetrable reporting" on the rich getting richer (and braces for the inevitable email from the reporter). See Article
• The Times editorial page misses a moral quandary on embryonic stem-cell research straight from its own newspaper, reports First Things. See Article
• NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein on Times columnist Roger Cohen's strange praise for socialist dictator Hugo Chavez and Cohen's fears for democracy "in George Bush's America." See Article
• Don Luskin asks why the Times felt the need to send a reporter to the Arctic Circle to show the reach of the U.S. "credit crisis." See Article
• Ann Coulter hits Times reporter Michael Luo's "pathetic attempt" to convince readers the illegal immigration issue will hurt the GOP. See Article
• Layoffs are coming to the Times' newsroom, Editor & Publisher reports. See Article
• HonestReporting looked at six months of Times reporting and found a sharp pro-Palestinian favoritism in coverage. See Article
• Deroy Murdock defends Reagan against bogus racism charges lobbed by Times columnists, at National Review Online. See Article
• Media mogul Rupert Murdoch "thought about" buying the Times, an Australian paper reports (via the New York Observer). See Article
• James Taranto at Opinion Journal on the ongoing Brooks-Krugman "blood feud" over Ronald Reagan's legacy of "racism" and scores Round 2 for Brooks. See Article
• The chief executive of home building company Toll Brothers says scary Times headlines are scaring people out of buying homes. See Article
• Abortion-loving feminist Kate Michelman a "women's leader"? So saith the Times, as discovered by Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters. See Article
• The Times' Sunday circulation plunges, Editor & Publisher reports. See Article
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Gossip site Gawker says the Times should embrace its obvious liberal political bent and abandon "an outmoded notion of objectivity." See Article
The New York Sun investigates a neighborhood the Times found critically lacking in grocery stores and finds...lots of grocery stores. See Article
Liberal blogger Ezra Klein takes a bite out of Times' snobbery, saying its tour of chain restaurants in New Jersey is reported like an expedition "visiting rural Mongolia and chewing on caterpillars." See Article
A Travel section cover photo on nudist vacations is a masterpiece of masking naughty bits, says Jack Shafer at Slate. See Article
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