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Discrimination

• April 6 -- Back to Golf at Augusta, at Last?
Clifton Brown admits: "The focus at Augusta has returned to what happens between the ropes, and the players didn't mind at all."

• April 6 -- Burk Ignored, NYT Scored by CBS's Golf Announcer
What a difference a year makes. Last year, Richard Sandomir was giving CBS helpful tips on how to cover the Augusta National protest. Today Sandomir admits: "…no one is discussing Martha Burk or sex discrimination at Augusta National Golf Club."

• April 6 -- The Times, Martha Burk, and the 2003 Masters
"The Battle for Augusta National," a new book by Sports Illustrated writer Alan Shipnuck, features comments by Times Watch director Clay Waters on Howell Raines and the Times. Waters' comments also appear in the online edition of SI.

• August 5 -- South Carolina’s Jewish Problem?
The retirement of Sen. Ernest Hollings included this out-of-nowhere bit on the chances of potential Democratic candidate Inez Tenenbaum: “South Carolina has not elected a woman to a top post like senator or governor, and it is unclear whether the state is ready for one, let alone a woman who once lobbied for abortion rights and has a Jewish surname, said Brad Gomez, a political scientist…Ms. Tenenbaum is Methodist. Her husband is Jewish.” Thanks for clearing that up, guys!

• July 7 -- "WORLD ENDS, WOMEN & MINORITIES HARDEST HIT."
Daniel Altman’s gloomy article on economic prospects seems to suggest the Bush administration is bad for black jobseekers.

• July 7 -- Democracy Can Wait --We’ve Got Taxes to Raise
A Saturday editorial doesn’t let the expansion of voting rights get in the way of supporting a tax hike.

• 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 27 -- Behind the Times On Strom Thurmond’s Death
Friday’s obituary for Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond is headlined: “Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100.” It would have been nice if the Times had noted that Thurmond died a friend of integration.

• June 27 -- Angry Conservatives vs. Happy Gays
The Times goes label-happy on conservatives in its coverage of the Supreme Court’s sodomy ruling.

• 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.”

• June 23 -- A Gay Old Time at The Tony Awards
Associate editor Frank Rich’s column celebrating the gay-dominated Tony Awards takes the opportunity to blast the “gay bashers” and “homophobic rantings” of the right.

• June 2 -- The Wrong Gay
Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s Sunday report on gays and the White House claims: “As president, Mr. Bush has appointed several openly gay people, including James C. Hormel, the ambassador to Romania, to high-level jobs.” But she’s got the wrong gay.

• May 27 -- “Willie Horton” Republicans Rough Up “Softball” Democrats
In Adam Clymer’s view, Republicans win by using “everything from Willie Horton's image to the suggestion that Senator Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam, was unconcerned about national security.” Meanwhile, Democrats “lack the killer instinct that it takes to sell blunt, demagogic messages.”

• 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 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. 

• April 21 -- Taking Dictation From Dictators
After revelations in the Times by a CNN executive revealing how the network trading access for truth in Iraq, Ethan Bronner reveals more difficulties in covering dictatorships: “A few countries ask your religion. ‘Jewish’ is not the right answer.”

• April 16 -- Augusta’s Last Stand?
The battle of Augusta National isn’t over at the Times. Although her protest was a flop, the Times most respected sports columnist comes close to making a civil rights martyr out of Martha Burk.

• April 14 -- Times Golf Headline: A Good Lie For Martha Burk?
The Times Bill Pennington finds “about 40 supporters” for Martha Burk’s much-hyped Augusta National protest. But the paper tries to give Burk a lift with a grossly misleading headline: “She Did Not Prevail This Year, but Burk Has Time on Her Side.”

• April 11 -- The Times Gets A Mulligan for Martha
Yesterday’s Masters rain-out gave Howell Raines’ Times a clear fairway to promote Martha Burk’s protest of Augusta National.

• April 10 -- Iraq and Augusta: The Times Two-Front War
Criticism of a “man called Hootie”…from a paper published by a man called Pinch.

• March 26 -- “71” Is The Loneliest Number
71 percent. That’s Bush’s approval rating on Iraq, according to a new Times poll. But you won’t read about it in today’s Times. Instead you’ll learn “Bush's campaign to remove Saddam Hussein from power is producing sharp fissures at home….black Americans are far more likely than whites to oppose Mr. Bush's policy in Iraq.”

• March 19 -- The Times’ Pro-War Stance…On Augusta National
As the country prepares for war, the Times found room for its own vital agenda: Getting women into Augusta National Golf Club. An article on Tiger Woods and the Masters “controversy” opened: “Like many people, Tiger Woods wonders how much attention will be focused on golf at the Masters this year, and how much attention will be focused on protests against Augusta National Golf Club’s men-only membership.” But when the Times says “many people,” it’s safe to substitute “Executive Editor Howell Raines.”

• March 14 -- Deborah Sontag Slimes the Fourth Circuit Court
Deborah Sontag delivered an 8,000-word whopper of bias for the Sunday magazine, profiling the "judicially active conservative" US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, based in Virginia. To Sontag, the fight for the soul of the Fourth Circuit pits compassionate upholders of individual rights versus business and Bush. She also wrote: "It would certainly help many Americans sustain their faith in the system if the courts could find their equilibrium, if they could become less ideological, less predictable and less political." But shouldn't courts, of all places, be predictable?

• March 13 -- Times Reporter Reprieves Self From Fact-Checking
Peter Kilborn's piece on the last-minute stay of execution for convicted murderer Delma Banks' summarized the prosecution's evidence against him but also dropped an apparent bombshell: A key witness had "recanted much of his testimony." Exactly what did this witness recant? The Times didn't say, but as the Washington Post revealed, it had nothing to do with the murder evidence.

• March 10 -- Bob Herbert's Unlikely "Innocent"
Times columnist Bob Herbert took up the cause of yet another death row "innocent," arguing that Delma Banks, "a man with no prior criminal record, is most likely innocent of the charge that put him on death row." Never mind that, as the Washington Post reported, Banks "unwittingly led police to the .25-caliber pistol used to kill 16-year-old Wayne Whitehead."