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• Was the Times wrong to hide reporter David Rohde's kidnapping by the Taliban? Mathew Ingram of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard argues yes: See Article
• The Times is probably safe from bankruptcy through at least the year 2015, write Nat Ives and Bradley Johnson for Ad Age: See Article
• John Koblin of the New York Observer watched three top Times editors, including Executive Editor Bill Keller, trying to humanize themselves in Midtown Manhattan: See Article
• A little White House diplomacy was all it took to get Times columnist and left-wing Obama-critic Paul Krugman back on the team. New York magazine writer Hugo Lindgren has the tick-tock: See Article
• The Obama White House is aggressively courting the Times (as if that were necessary) reports Michael Calderone of the Politico: See Article
• What did the Times website look like 13 years ago? The NYT Picker blog has a look: See Article
• The Atlantic's Megan McArdle rolls her eyes at how the Times' David Leonhardt "has touched off another round of how much can we blame on Bush" for the deficit, pointing out the fantastical nature of the alleged $800 billion surplus Clinton bequeathed to Bush. See Article
• Mark Bowden's Vanity Fair piece characterizes Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s "leftist politics and social liberalism." See Article
• The left-wing Nation magazine explains how one old lefty got so many letters published in the Times. See Article
• National Review Online's Steven Spruiell has cracked the Paul Krugman formula -- "Start with a bold assertion (Reagan is to blame for the financial crisis) and use big chunks of liberal boilerplate." See Article
• Ace of Spades mocks the Times for finding "The Goode Family," a new show and the one show on television that actually mocks liberals, to be old hat: See Article
• Francis Wilkinson, editor of newsmagazine The Week, says conservatives will rue the day they actually get their wish and kill off the Times: See Article
• Slublog at Hot Air compared the Times editorials supporting Sotomayor to the ones denigrating Clarence Thomas, figured out a stirring life story only matters to the Times if it approves of your politics. See Article
• Michelle Malkin on how the Times gave an election-year gift to Obama by spiking a story on ACORN: See Article
• "Obama is good for the bottom line" at the Times, says a reporter on Twitter, about the paper selling $2 million in Obama-themed merchandise: See Article
• CAMERA accuses the Times of skewing the news on declining Christian numbers in the Middle East by ignoring the increase in Israel: See Article
• Jeff Poor of the Business and Media Institute on how the Times belittled Chevron's attempts to counteract one-sided media treatment: See Article
• Put your sarcasm detector on: Blogger Beldar's take on how deeply impressed he is by a Times story noting Obama "was editing articles by eminent legal scholars" before the age of 30. See Article
• KC Johnson takes on former Times sports columnist Selena Roberts' disgraceful refusal to admit she was wrong to smear Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape. See Article
• Liberal lament: The Times has announced plans to shut down sister paper the Boston Globe, writes Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz. See Article
• Slate's Mickey Kaus examines the"willed credulousness" of the Times' lead story Sunday emphasizing the "hard line" Obama took against Chrysler. So how did the United Auto Workers get almost everything it wanted? See Article
• The NYT Co., which lost $75 million in the first quarter, is severely strapped for cash, reports the New York Post. See Article
• S.E. Cupp tallies up the stories and finds a gross double standard on conservative vs. liberal protestors at the Times: See Article
• The Times is eliminating several sections of the paper to save money, the New York Observer reports. See Article
• James Taranto at Opinion Journal questioned the Times' coverage of the Somali pirate stand-off and the paper's overall "can't-do attitude about America": See Article
• At Commentary, Max Boot tackles Times columnist Roger Cohen, Iranian apologist: See Article
• Boston Herald headline: "Globe execs land millions while seeking major union cutbacks." Those execs include NYT Co. chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. See Article
• Outspoken liberal actor Alec Baldwin explains why the New York Times is simply indispensable: See Article
• A polling firm wonders if the Times knows much about polling, based on a strange front-page story falsely claiming Mayor Michael Bloomberg is performing "push polls." See Article
• Greg Pollowitz at NRO finds "more nonsense" from Bill Keller, who's claiming Fox News and everyone else just misinterpreted his paper's John McCain "affair" scoop as just being about an unsubstantiated sex scandal: See Article
• Lynn Davidson at NewsBusters discovered the Times emphasized leftists and ignored a Cuban free speech activist in its coverage of an Havana arts exhibition featuring American artists. See Article
• Good for Ethan Bronner for revisiting apparently bogus claims of Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza, says Noah Pollak at Commentary. But why did he buy into story in the first place? See Article
• Times non-liberal columnist David Brooks says the media's pro-Obama bais is unintentional: See Article
• Did the Times spike a story linking ACORN to the Obama campaign? A Republican lawyer says so at a House hearing, claiming information from ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief. From the Philadelphia Bulletin: See Article
• Columnist Paul Krugman turns on Obama in a Newsweek cover story: See Article
• Writer Mark Bowden cites Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s "leftist politics and social liberalism" in a Vanity Fair profile: See Article
• Ron Radosh on foreign policy columnist Roger Cohen's latest Iran nonsense: See Article
• Sportswriters "Red Krugman", "Frankie Rich," "Trixie Dowd," and "Tommie Friedman" wonder what happened to cherished golden boy "Bam Bam" after a first-round knockout. Brilliant satire from Iowahawk: See Article
• The worm turns? Liberal Times columnist (and devout Obama fan) Paul Krugman has no confidence in Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's latest bank rescue plan, says Jeff Poor of the Business and Media Institute. See Article
• Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is not impressed with the Times' spin on an Obama appointee's "youthful indiscretion." See Article
• A Times foreign policy columnist, vituperative Israel critic Roger Cohen, learned nothing in a trip to meet Iranian Jews in Los Angeles, says Rabbi David Wolpe at The Huffington Post: See Article
• Noemie Emery in The Weekly Standard mocks Times' blogger Judith Warner, who not only dreamed about Barack Obama in the shower but felt it an appropriate subject to write about: See Article
• Why did the Times recently correct a 100-year-old story? Craig Silverman, writing at Columbia Journalism Review, has the answer. See Article
• Even in a recession, no pay cut for New York Times Co. executives, reports Reuters: See Article
• Science trumps ideology at the Times -- except when it doesn't. A good catch from Opinion Journal's "Best of the Web." See Article
• The Times covers the controversy over Obama's anti-Israel National Intelligence Council nominee Chas Freeman -- but not until he withdraws his name from consideration. Hot Air reports. See Article
• Times Sunday Magazine "Q&A" reporter Deborah Solomon is reliably hostile to her conservative guests and affectionate to liberals, The Weekly Standard reports: See Article
• Reporter Michael Barbaro thinks his anti-Wal-Mart reporting changed the company for the better: "The Wal-Mart of now is not the one that I started covering around 2005." From the student paper at Indiana University: See Article
• As ad sales decline, the Times is selling 21 floors of its headquarters and leasing back the space from the buyer. See Article
• In Rolling Stone magazine, columnist Paul Krugman says Obama's $787 billion plan isn't enough: See Article
• Times columnist Roger Cohen's naively sunny view of the status of Jews in Iran makes him a useful idiot in the eyes of Middle East scholar Michael Rubin. From NRO: See Article
• Tucker Carlson gets booed at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference for saying conservatives need to be more like the New York Times. See Article
• Washington Post columnist George Will rebuts Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin's recent criticism , and remembers the '70s, when the Times was warning against "a major cooling of the climate." See Article
• Columnist Roger Cohen demonstrated his naivete regarding the plight of the few Jews remaining in Iran. From Opinion Journal's Best of the Web: See Article
• At Opinion Journal, James Taranto criticizes a Times' reporter in Iraq for apparently forgetting Saddam Hussein once ruled the country: See Article
• Columnist Mona Charen wonders how the Times could write an entire story about the fanatical Khmer Rouge without once calling them Communists, when it has no problem calling Augusto Pinochet's regime "right wing." See Article
• From "Punch" to "Pinch" to "?": Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger's son, is joining the Times staff, reports The New York Observer. See Article
• The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb questions a newspaper whose "business model consists of handouts from a shady Mexican oligarch, a tapped-out credit line, and a new mortgage on their office space." See Article
• The Times is still going easy on liberal Sen. Chris Dodd's conflict of interest with troubled real estate lender Countrywide, claims Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. See Article
• Katia Bachko at Columbia Journalism Review reads a tone-deaf Times story on falling rents in NYC and wonders if the paper really knows how the other half lives: See Article
• At FinkelBlog, Mark Finkelstein spotted MSNBC mouth Chris Matthews calling the Times the "dictatorial" "engine of the Democratic Party" in the wake of the Daschle withdrawal: See Article
• Wow: The Times calls for former Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle to withdraw from consideration for the post of secretary of Health and Human Services. Hot Air has the story. See Article
• Did the New York Times get pranked? NPR applies some skepticism to a Times story about a so-called support group for the avaricious girlfriends of laid-off investment bankers, "Dating a Banker Anonymous." See Article
• NYT Co. profits fall 48% in the fourth quarter of 2008, actually beating expectations. See Article
• Former Times editorial writer Andres Martinez says he often found himself "defending Big Business against a roomful of reflexively anti-corporate journalists." From Slate: See Article
• Columnist Paul Krugman is urging Obama to become the next FDR and establish a new New Deal, writes Julia Seymour at the Business and Media Institute. See Article
• A Times editorial writer labeled Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu a "thief" in an August 2007 signed editorial. Now the "thief" could own up to 17% of Times common stock: See Article
• Cindy McCain criticizes the media's liberal agenda -- and in particular the Times -- in an interview conducted by her daughter Meghan for The Daily Beast: See Article
• The Times, in financial trouble, is seeking help from Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim, the New York Post reports. See Article
• The Times' new "environmental pod" of reporters will be led by an activist editor, Glenn Kramon: "My goal is to make 'em angry enough to do something," he says of readers. See Article
• Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute rips the Times for "liberal apologetics" in response to a report on crime among young black males. See Article
• Michael Hirschhorn of The Atlantic speculates that the death of the Times might be good for journalism in the long run: See Article
• In a Fox News interview, former President George H.W. Bush says the Times has been unfair to his son: See Article
• Bowing to hard economic times, the NYT is now selling display ads on its front page. The first ad? From CBS: See Article
• Union-busting by the Times? Keith Kelly reports in the New York Post. See Article
• Shock: Left-winger Peter Osnos cherishes the New York Times as "one of the core institutions of American life." See Article
• Caroline Kennedy conducts a frosty interview with two Times reporters: "Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman's magazine or something?" See Article
• Oops: The Times publishes a fake letter from the mayor of Paris. See Article
• Ace of Spades wonders why "The NYT is determined to report happy-talk to its liberal readership." See Article
• Greg Pollowitz at National Review Online: Now the Times tells us about Sen. Chuck Schumer's sleazy dealings. See Article
• On Splice, former New York Press editor Russ Smith bets the Times will be sold by Dec. 31, 2009. See Article
• Appearing on CNN, Times columnist Thomas Friedman urges Obama to go "radical" on the environment. See Article
• Bush-hating Times columnist/economist turned Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, finally on the throne where he belongs: See Article
• Facing cash flow problems, the Times Co. is mortgaging its new headquarters in Midtown Manhattan: See Article
• Politico's Michael Calderone says the Times is getting serious (!) about separating its news and editorial content: See Article
• Politico's Michael Calderone says the Times is getting serious (!) about separating its news and editorial content: See Article
• Times media columnist David Carr turns the spotlight on his colleagues by acknowledging how the media feeds economic fears, writes the Business and Media Institute's Nathan Burchfiel: See Article
• Now the Times tells us: "Campaign Promises on Ending the War in Iraq Now Muted by Reality." Opinion Journal's James Taranto questions the timing. See Article
• Fisk! The Times refutes Rep. Charlie Rangel's complaints about a story, point by point. New York magazine applauds the Metro section's new "punchy" reporting. See Article
• Liberal vs liberals? Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel is taking on the Times over its scandal stories involving his fundraising, Josh Bresnahan at Politico writes. See Article
• Why does the Times refuse to talk about Islam when reporting on the terrorism in India? Accuracy In Media wonders. See Article
• Marketing author Seth Godin ponders how the Times is blowing its cultural influence and how it can get it back. At Seeking Alpha: See Article
• Times economics columnist Paul Krugman warned against economic prudence and caution on the CBS Early Show, reports the MRC's Kyle Drennen: See Article
• As its stock stumbles below $6 a share, the New York Times Co. slashes its dividend from 23 cents a share to 6 cents, reports the New York Observer. See Article
• Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, the publisher's son, is leaving his reporting job at The Oregonian for the New York Times. See Article
• But a T-shirt of a front-page Times headline commemorating Obama's victory ("one of the most important events in American history") at the NYT store. Yours for only $32.95! See Article
• Law professor Kenneth Anderson offers a requiem for his New York Times subscription at Pajamas Media.
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• According to Yale's student paper, Times global warming reporter Andrew Revkin says the world will soon be crippled unless aggressive steps are taken to reverse consumption patterns. And he sang a song about carbon. See Article
• New York Times stock is currently trading at $7.60, down from a 52-week high of $21.07 on February 20. See Article
• The final CBS-New York Times election poll was among the least accurate, overestimating Obama's final winning margin by five points, says Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters. See Article
• In Vanity Fair, Seth Mnookin writes about the daily dangers and claustrophobic infighting that beset the Times' Baghdad bureau. See Article
• Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard (and the paper's sole conservative columnist) says don't trust the Times: See Article
• Writing at Boycottnyt.com, Don Feder found that the "gay Jesus" play "Corpus Christi" has received two reviews and a feature story in the Times over a period of just eight days: See Article
• The Times posts a history of its presidential endorsements. Were you alive when the paper last endorsed a Republican? See Article
• The Times suffered a 16% drop in advertising revenue in the third quarter, Reuters reports: See Article
• A Larry Rohter story on small business taxes "plays dangerously with language and statistics in a way that seems to intentionally diminish McCain's claims," argues Katia Bachko at Columbia Journalism Review. See Article
• With the success of the surge, the Times' coverage of Iraq War drops to all-time low, reports Kevin Mooney at CNS News: See Article
• Kevin Williamson at National Review Online's Media Blog spots two Times love letters to left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow: See Article
• Relief: Bush-bashing columnist and Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman tells New York magazine he's "temperamentally unsuited" to be Barack Obama's Treasury secretary. See Article
• How does the Times' coverage of Democrat Rep. Tim Mahoney's current sex scandal compare to how the paper treated the one of his predecessor, Republican Rep. Mark Foley, in 2006? Freedom Watch found it's no contest: See Article
• Don Luskin mocks Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize at National Review Online: See Article
• A Times reporter criticizes Sarah Palin for dropping the puck at an NHL match, making claims that are later removed from the post (plus: snippy Times editor gets involved in the comments section!). From Terry Trippany at NewsBusters: See Article
• As if he wasn't insufferable enuogh already...lefty columnist Paul Krugman wins Nobel prize in economics. See Article
• Retired Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse says she wasn't the only Times staffer who marched at an abortion rights rally in 1989. From Radar Online. See Article
• The Times' "conservative" columnist David Brooks calls Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer" on the party. Tim Graham at NewsBusters has more: See Article
• Slate's Jack Shafer on the increasing silliness of the Times' Sunday Styles section. See Article
• Lefty Times columnist Paul Krugman predicts a "partial and temporary nationalization of the financial system," reports the Business and Media Institute. See Article
• The New York Times predicted Fannie Mae failure in 1999 (so why won't the 2008 Times acknowledge it?). Hot Air has the scoop. See Article
• During this panicky time on Wall Street, the Times needs to choose its words more carefully, argues National Review's Media Blog. See Article
• Highlighting the Times' cheerleading for Barack Obama, National Review's Jonah Goldberg points out that the most telling defense of the paper came from the Obama campaign itself. See Article
• Rush Limbaugh says the Times is now printing "Obama propaganda on the front page." See Article
• National Review Online's Byron York celebrates: The Times finally cites Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "God damn America" quote in a news story. See Article
• The New York Post's Kyle Smith can't fathom the unseemly glee over the financial meltdown from liberals like Times columnist Paul Krugman. See Article
• In a Saturday Night Live skit, the New York Times' elite ventures to Alaska to smear Sarah Palin. Mockery ensues. From HotAir: See Article
• How much does the Times want to raise taxes on New Yorkers? Ask the New York Sun. See Article
• Where has the "civil war" in Iraq gone? It's no longer to be found in Times' editorials, found William McGurn at the Wall Street Journal. See Article
• The Times went into a tizzy this weekend over Sarah Palin, reports Joel Mowbray at Townhall. See Article
• Times columnist Paul Krugman "credits" McCain economic advisor and former Sen. Phil Gramm as just the man to lead us into the next Great Depression: See Article
• Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. kicks it with Coldplay. Awkwardness ensues. From the New York Observer. See Article
• The Times is shrinking again, this time in pages, as the Metro and Sports sections will be folded into other sections several days a week. See Article
• The Times' front-page story on Trig Palin is...not bad, actually. See Article
• Author William McGowan on the Times' history of liberal coverage of immigration reform: See Article
• The Times, then and now: George Marlin unearthed a 1984 editorial on Walter Mondale's running mate Geraldine Ferraro: "Why shouldn't a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow?" See Article
• The surge is doomed to failure, said a chorus of astute Times' opiners in early 2007. Eric Posner at the Volokh Conspiracy rounds up the usual suspects. See Article
• The Times' health blog covers Business and Media Institute's report on the hyping in the media (including the NYT) of Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine for teenage girls. See Article
• NYT-MSNBC contributor John Harwood argued that Joe Biden's racial gaffes are actually "one of his strengths." See Article
• Ad revenue for the New York Times newspaper fell 15.3% in July, reports the Associated Press. See Article
• Executive Editor Bill Keller was all over the Times this weekend, noticed the NY Observer: See Article
• Tom Blumer catches up with former Times tax reporter David Cay Johnston and says "his leftiness is in full bloom." See Article
• The Times may have to cut its stock dividend to avoid having its bonds lapse into junk status, reports Bloomberg. See Article
• Surprise: The liberal New Republic magazine runs a book review by former Bush Justice Dept. official Jack Goldsmith, taking apart NYT reporter Eric Lichtblau's book "Bush's Law." See Article
• Andy McCarthy at National Review Online finds the Times' editorial on the first terror conviction out of Guantanamo Bay "shamefully dishonest and misrepresentative of reality." See Article
• Liberal columnist Paul Krugman is quite choosy about what to worry about: Global warming, yes. Social Security meltdown, heck no! See Article
• The Times exaggerates restaurant closures (or else thinks "several" means "two"). Nathan Burchfiel of BMI has the story. See Article
• Math is harder for girls...and the NYT? Heather Mac Donald explains the real findings of a report the Times twisted to fit its liberal hypothesis that girls are discriminated against in math. See Article
• The Nose on Your Face blog has acquired Times editor David Shipley's suggested edits to John Mccain's rejected op-ed. See Article
• Joke of the day: Former Times editor Howell Raines says today's newsrooms "populated with the children of Reaganomics." See Article
• The Times' rejection of the McCain op-ed: Principled or political? Hot Air suspects the latter. See Article
• How will the Times survive in the new media age? Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. explains it all to Advertising Age. See Article
• Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker traces the decline and fall of the New York Times. See Article
• Hating the NYT: It's not just for conservatives anymore. Vanity Fair elucidates. See Article
• Honest Reporting's latest analysis of the Times' anti-Israel bias: See Article
• Take down that "bitter, idiotic" political bumper sticker and clean up that Facebook page, warns the Times' standards editor in a memo to reporters. From the NYO: See Article
• Ann Coulter: "The NYT vs. Helms, Take 529,876." See Article
• The Times' stock price nears a 10-year low after a Lehman Brothers analyst calls it too expensive. Read Keith Kelly in the New York Post: See Article
• Limbaugh-haters focus on a new enemy: Zev Chafets, who dared write a fair profile of the talk radio star for the Times Sunday magazine. Brian Maloney has the story at the Radio Equalizer. See Article
• Does the Times want the U.S. to lose the war on Al Qaeda? Jim Pinkerton argues the point on Fox News. See Article
• Heather Mac Donald says a front page Times' story on an exclusionary Phoenix golf club is "compelling proof of the desperation of the women's grievance movement." See Article
• The Times promotes leftist college kids making a fittingly sophomoric political statement by adopting Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein, as their own. See Article
• Bruce Kesler ponders why the Times thinks Americans are using heart CT scans too often -- something to do with the paper's support of universal health care? See Article
• Are eco-friendly homes the new Prada? The Times wants us to think so. The Business and Media Institute has the story. See Article
• Columnist Michelle Malkin lays into the Times for ignoring the recent Haditha acquittals -- after spending two years hyping the "massacre." See Article
• In Slate, liberal-leaning labor reporter Steven Greenhouse laments the U.S.'s lack of mandatory vacation and maternity leave. See Article
• The Supreme Court justices (except for Scalia and Thomas) attend a reception for liberal Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse upon her retirement from journalism. See Article
• The Times has learned nothing about Iran's threat since 1981, says a New York Sun editorial. See Article
• Is "Knoxville" really called "The Couch," as a Times travel writer claims? Knoxvillians beg to differ. See Article
• Stunt man climbs New York Times headquarters in Manhattan, is arrested. The Times' "City Room" blog has the story. See Article
• Why can't Times columnist Thomas Friedman just admit that Obama said he would talk to our enemies without conditions? See Article
• The PowerLine blog has a theory as to why a bizarre anti-American myth went uncaught by the Times' fact-checkers. See Article
• The New York Sun delves into the Times' free-speech hypocrisy: Good for terrorist groups, bad for the NRA? See Article
• CAMERA on the Times' opinion writer who used to belong to the PLO. See Article
• Blogger Roger L. Simon on the missing elephant in Tom Friedman's popular column on Jewish opposition to Obama. See Article
• The New York Observer reports that Times publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. and his wife Gail Gregg are separating after 33 years of marriage. See Article
• 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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