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• April 30 -- Team Kerry is Too White?
A liberal newspaper should get this scoop first: black and Hispanic activists say that Team Kerry lacks “diversity” and is failing to appeal directly to minority voters. But how about a “liberal” tag for the “affirmative action” groups?

• January 16 -- Affirming the NAACP
Lynette Clemetson pens a sympathetic look at the career of Elaine Jones, retiring president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. While portraying Jones as a fighter against anti-civil rights conservatives, she leaves out unflattering details about Jones' record.

• July 31 -- Will ‘Siegal’ Soothe Times Egos?
The Times releases the Siegal Report, an account of its failures in the wake of the Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg controversies. It includes a note from panel member and far-left activist Roger Wilkins, defending the paper’s “aggressive” diversity quest and bashing America: “The Times newsroom is an American place and is thus touched--as are virtually all American places--by our culture, including some remnants of hostility to minorities and women.”

• July 1 -- The “Conservative” Supreme Court?
Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse marvels on the court’s “amazing final week.” Even more amazing: Greenhouse still believes the court lacks liberal voices.

• June 30 -- Bill Keller Stands Up For Discrimination
Columnist Bill Keller, Howell Raines’ possible successor, sounds downright Rainesian on race issues. Keller’s Sunday op-ed lauds discrimination and calls Clarence Thomas “a black jurist of questionable distinction.”

• June 24 -- Old Liberal Labeling Habits Die Hard
Meet Sen. Ted Kennedy, “Democrat of Massachusetts”
Neil Lewis’s Supreme Court story uses the term “conservative” 12 times and calls Sen. Orrin Hatch a “leading conservative,” while ultra-liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy is simply a “Democrat of Massachusetts.”

• June 24 -- Embracing “Diversity”
Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court’s “forceful endorsement of the role of racial diversity on campus in achieving a more equal society.”

• May 22 -- Q&A with WILLIAM MCGOWAN
Author of “COLORING THE NEWS,” a 2001 book (newly in paperback) which made many direct criticisms of how the quest for “diversity” was corrupting Times reporting. Times Watch talked by phone with Mr. McGowan.

• May 19 -- “Pinch” Flinches From Owning Up to Blair Facts
The Times zealous diversity quest didn’t start with Howell Raines: Publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger was on the bandwagon long before. Will Sulzberger now take responsibility for management’s coddling of Blair?

• May 16 -- Better Late Than Never
The Times lets the author of the diversity-critical “Coloring the News” have his say—two years after the book’s publication.

• May 15 -- Raines Comes Clean—But Soils Times Reputation
At a testy staff meeting, Times executive editor (and self-professed guilty white liberal) Howell Raines admits he gave reporter Jayson Blair “one chance too many” because he was black.

• May 15 -- A Tale of Two Plagiarists: Raines Scraped Mike Barnicle, But Sheltered Blair
“Public respect for newspapering is wounded when rules that would be enforced with doctrinal ferocity among the mass of journalists are lightened for a star who has great value to the paper.”—Howell Raines, lecturing the Boston Globe on plagiarizing columnist Mike Barnicle in 1998

• May 14 -- Howell Raines’ Theatre of the Absurd
Times staffers will pack a Manhattan movie house today for the latest installment of the “Blair Watch Project”—top management will take questions from seething Times news staff. Do journalists now see that the media’s diversity quest is damaging reporters’ reputations?

• May 13 -- Credibility Chasm on 43rd Street
Not even the liberal media trust the Times anymore: Liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen comments on how the Jayson Blair plagiarism fiasco has damaged the Times credibility. 

• May 12 -- The Times Jayson Blair Apology: Is It Enough?
“Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception” blares the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, introducing a 7,200 word examination of the paper’s chain of failures in the case of reporter Jayson Blair, who resigned from the paper after his plagiarism came to light two weeks ago. 

• May 9 -- Raines: Diversity “More Important” Than Better Journalism
Howell Raines praised the hiring of future plagiarist reporter Jayson Blair: “This campaign has made our staff better and, more importantly, more diverse.”

• May 8 -- The End of the Blair Affair
The saga of plagiarizing Times reporter Jayson Blair. 

• April 30 -- The Times Parrots The Military Line--On One Issue
The Times pits the “nuanced” liberal view of racial preferences versus the “absolutist” conservative one and drops its skepticism toward the military—because some retired officers are on the Times side. 

• April 3 -- The Times Parrots The Military Line--On One Issue
The Times pits the “nuanced” liberal view of racial preferences versus the “absolutist” conservative one and drops its skepticism toward the military—because some retired officers are on the Times side.

• January 17 -- NY Times Repeats Itself on Bush Using Loaded “Quotas” Term 
The New York Times repeated itself. Two separate New York Times stories on Thursday included the identical sentence about how President Bush used the term “quotas” because it's “a word that inevitably draws strong opposition in polls.” 

• July 26 -- Pro-Abortion = “Moderate”
To the New York Times, supporting “abortion rights” and “affirmative action” makes one a “moderate” and “nonideological.” So reporter Todd Purdum contended in a Thursday story chronicling Secretary of State Colin Powell’s struggles against administration “hard liners.”