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• November 17 -- Is the New CIA Chief "Suppressing Dissent"?
New C.I.A. chief Porter Goss won't be catching any breaks at the Times, judging by the coverage so far: "The newest spymaster lays down the law. Some see his move as suppressing dissent."

• November 8 -- Criminal Negligence of Cause and Effect
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield files "Despite Drop In Crime, An Increase In Inmates," yet another Butterfield story that fails to grasp that putting criminals in prison can actually lead to a drop in crime.

• November 1 -- Kerry "Galvanizing Supporters"
Deborah Sontag sounds enthralled by Kerry's support: "Mr. Kerry's supporters packed away any concerns they once had about his charisma. They were galvanized, they said, by his ideas. "

• November 1 -- "Nail Biting" Angst at Bush Rallies
Dean Murphy uncovers tension in the Bush camp: "There is a good deal of nail biting going on at the mostly picture-perfect campaign rallies held for President Bush." He then ponders anti-press hostility at Bush rallies.

• November 1 -- Bush's "Façade" vs. "Relaxed, Playful" Kerry
The Times on Bush's campaign style: "Any crack in the façade could be fatal at the polls." The Times is more affectionate with Kerry: "Relaxed, playful and workmanlike, and hopelessly superstitious."

• September 30 -- Lumping Toddlers with Rock-Throwing Teens
A headline on a story on violence in Israel, "Children on Both Sides Killed on Northern Border of Gaza Strip," portrays the victims as equally young and innocent. Problem is, the Israeli terror victims were toddlers, while two of the Palestinian "children" were 16- and 17-year-olds throwing stones at soldiers.

• September 23 -- Playing Up Deficits, Not Tax Relief
Edmund Andrews' front-page "Deal In Congress To Keep Tax Cuts, Widening Deficit" paints a tax-cut extension in grim terms.

• September 13 -- No "Political Slant" in Times Economics Reporting?
Eduardo Porter looks at a study that alleges liberal bias in economics coverage and seems dubious: "Although many news-media watchdogs take business reporters to task for biases, few say the problem stems from a political slant."

• September 8 -- NYT Clips Cheney's War on Terror Quote
A misleading headline tops a misleading front-page story by David Sanger and David Halbfinger on Cheney's recent remarks about the war on terror.

• September 7 -- "Polls on the Move"? More Like: "Clear Lead for Bush"
Bush and Kerry campaigned in Ohio after the Republican convention, leading David Halbfinger and Richard Stevenson to file "With Polls on the Move, Bush and Kerry Take Their Economic Message to Ohio." More accurate would be: "Polls Show Clear Lead for Bush as Candidates Take Their Economic Message to Ohio."

• August 31 -- Stop the Presses
"Swing-State Delegates Confident in Bush and Don't Much Like Kerry."

• August 12 -- An Israeli's "Unlikely Friendship" with a Terrorist
Greg Myre reports from Jerusalem on a terrorist sympathizer in "An Israeli Uproar, and Arrest, Over an Unlikely Friendship." The "friendship" headline definitely soft-pedals the story of an Israeli woman's relationship with an anti-Israeli terrorist: "As she was being led in handcuffs to a court hearing on Tuesday, [Fahima] angrily defended him. 'He does not plan attacks,' she said. 'Even if he does, so what?'"

• August 12 -- "Mocking" Bush Drowns Out Kerry's Foreign Policy "Nuance"
Kerry's admission he would still vote to give Bush war authority invites a David Sanger story with the loaded headline: "For Now, Bush's Mocking Drowns Out Kerry's Nuanced Explanation of His War Vote." Also: Where's the NYT on Kerry and Cambodia?

• August 9 -- "In Blow to Bush…."
The online edition of the Times' lead story on disappointing job figures lays it on the line: "In Blow to Bush, Only 32,000 Jobs Created in July."

• August 3 -- One Post-Convention Poll Finding the NYT Likes
"Republicans are fighting back to retain the allegiance of the country's veterans," David Kirkpatrick claims in a story introduced by the loaded subhead "Democratic Push Makes Big Inroads."

• July 19 -- NYT Again Leads With Bad-News Economic Spin
More front-page bad economic spin begs the question: Is the Times talking down a strong economy in an election year?

• July 8 -- Wilgoren Watches the Democrats
Jodi Wilgoren, one of the paper's more balanced political reporters, nabs the front page with her story on the new Kerry-Edwards ticket and at least hints at the ticket's liberal bent.

• June 18 -- Dick Cheney Takes On "Outrageous" NYT
David Sanger and Robin Toner's front-page story is headlined "Bush and Cheney Talk Strongly of Qaeda Links With Hussein." More accurate would have been "Cheney Castigates NYT." Then again, the vice president hasn't been too impressed with Times headlines lately.

• June 16 -- On the Economy, Good News Is Bad
Did yesterday's inflation report contain bad economic news? The markets don't think so, and neither do Alan Greenspan or the Washington Post--but the Times does.

• June 9 -- News Flash: More Violence to Come in Iraq
Baghdad-based Edward Wong offers yet another gloomy promise of more violence to come: "With summerlike heat settling in and American officials predicting that violence will almost certainly increase before the full empowerment of the country's interim government on June 30…." Also "Italy Rejoices at News." But what news?

• June 2 -- "More Oversight of Bush" Needed, Says GOP?
Carl Hulse's piece carries the blunt headline, "Even Some in GOP Call For More Oversight of Bush." But does the story deliver?

• April 12 -- "Bold" Nuttiness from Cynthia McKinney
The Times soft-pedals former Rep. Cynthia McKinney's conspiracy theories: "Well known for bold comments and back on the campaign trail." Among McKinney's "bold" comments: That Bush knew 9-11 was coming.

• April 5 -- "Fears Remain" Despite Job Numbers
At the Times, behind every silver lining lies a dark cloud for Republican election prospects.

• December 18 -- Well Boo-Frickity-Hoo
"Taliban Detainee Is Depressed, Lawyer Says"

• December 8 -- Editors Without a Clue
A story called "Rebels Without a Cause or a Web Site" sounds like a profile of some low-tech protest group--but it's about Iraqi guerilla fighters attacking U.S. troops.

• December 3 -- Coulter's Crush on Torquemada
A headline writer has "fun" with Ann Coulter.

• November 3 -- Just Die Already
A headline to a story on Terri Schiavo reduces her to an inconvenience: "With His Wife in Limbo, Husband Can't Move On."

• October 28 -- Quagmire on the Times Copy Desk
The ghosts of Vietnam haunt the Times copy desk. Frank Rich's anti-Bush Sunday column is typically over the top, but the accompanying headline goes even farther: "Why Are We Back in Vietnam?" Rich's actual article says: "The war in Iraq is not remotely a Vietnam."

• October 28 -- "Nostalgia" for Baathist Bombs
A story on the struggles of Iraq's new foreign minister is headlined "Iraq's Foreign Ministry Has a New Chief, but Nostalgia for the Past Lingers." That's a rather broad view of nostalgia, given the story's opening: "Somebody planted a bomb outside the office of the new Iraqi foreign minister two weeks ago, set with a timer to go off when he was at his desk."

• October 24 -- "Rumsfeld Draws Republicans' Ire"

• October 22 -- Times Bias Trickles Into Headlines
Jim Rutenberg delivers a balanced story on an upcoming CBS miniseries on the Reagan White House, but a smart-aleck headline writer couldn't resist a little Reagan-bashing.

• October 21 -- The Times Gets a Facelift
The Times front page: New look, same old content.

• September 23 -- Kate Michelman, the “Grande Dame” of Abortion
Kate Michelman’s resignation as president of Naral Pro-Choice America leads Elizabeth Becker to call her one of the “grandes dames of the reproductive rights debate….Her activism also has roots in her teenage years in Defiance, Ohio, where she became involved in civil rights protests to help immigrants.”

• August 8 -- Schwarzenegger, “The Villain”
Charlie LeDuff’s piece on the California recall election brings up “tabloid accounts of groping and boorish behavior on movie sets” against Arnold Schwarzenegger, proving the Times has changed its tune on scandal-mongering since Bill Clinton.

• July 28 -- “Crime Falling, Yet Prisons Still Filling,” Part XIX
Ever since 1997, when the Times ran the headline, “Crime Rates are Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling,” the paper hasn’t grasped the connection between more criminals being in prison and a drop in the crime rate. Monday’s front page offered yet another naïve take on the subject.

• July 2 -- “Guilty Or Not…”
Did the U.S. deliberately fire a missile into an Iraqi mosque, killing nine? The evidence says no, but some local Hussein fanatics say yes. So a Times headline splits the difference.

• June 25 -- A Distorted Headline On “Distorted” Intelligence
James Risen and Douglas Jehl’s story on military intelligence-gathering sports the distressing headline: “Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some Evidence.” But the expert admits he never altered his intelligence reports –plus, he’s discussing Cuba, not Iraq.

• April 7 -- From the “Oh Yeah?” Department
Front-page headline for the Sunday Times: “Defiant Iraqis Say U.S. Push Was Thwarted”

• March 26 -- Isn’t That Nice?
“Even Some of Hussein’s Arab Foes Take a Certain Pride in His Fight” -- headline of a Times front-page story by Neil MacFarquhar