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Sen. Ted Kennedy

• September 28 -- Skipping Ted Kennedy's Incendiary Claims
The Times covers an "acerbic" Ted Kennedy speech but leaves out the part where Kennedy claims Bush has made a "nuclear 9/11" in the U.S. more likely.

• April 13 -- Louis Uchitelle: "Time For Another New Deal"
Economics reporter/columnist Louis Uchitelle quotes liberally from Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Ted Kennedy and wonders, "must government play a much greater supporting role in job creation?"

• January 27 -- Bush's "Bold" (and Liberal) FDA
Science writer Gina Kolata on the "bold" (read: liberal) decisions of Bush's FDA commissioner.

• November 13 -- Pear Continues Heavy Lifting On Labeling Bias
For months, Robert Pear has been writing the same Sisyphean story on the eternally embattled Medicare drug benefit bill, pitting "conservative" Republicans against plain old "Democrats" like…Sen. Ted Kennedy?

• September 25 -- Times Skips The Full Teddy
Carl Hulse’s “Democrats Step Up Attacks on Iraq War,” is true to its word: “The increasingly tough tone was first struck by Senator Edward M. Kennedy…who charged the administration with perpetrating a ‘fraud’ with its justification for the war on Iraq.” But Hulse fails to deliver the full paranoid flavor of Kennedy’s anti-Bush animus—Kennedy accuses Bush of making up the Iraqi threat “in Texas” for political advantage, and of bribing other countries to go along.

• September 18 -- Robert Pear Overdoses On “Conservatives”
Robert Pear’s story on drug subsidies for seniors overdoses on the “conservative” label, employing the term seven times in a 750-word story. Meanwhile, ultraliberal Sen. Ted Kennedy is again merely a “Democrat of Massachusetts.”

• July 8 -- More Unlabeled Liberals
Times reporters are continuing their trend of avoiding labels for liberal advocates, from Ted Kennedy, “Democrat of Massachusetts,” to the Ford Foundation, the major money-bags for the ACLU, NOW, and other left-wing advocacy groups.

• June 25 -- There Are No Liberals Here
For the second day in a row, reporters Robin Toner and Robert Pear team up for labeling bias. On Wednesday it was liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer’s turn for a whitewash.

• 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 -- “Democrat of Massachusetts,” Part 2
Tuesday’s Times reverts to old habits. Robin Toner and Robert Pear’s story on the Medicare drug bill contains 10 “conservative” versus one “liberal” label, and again terms ultra-liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy simply as a “Democrat of Massachusetts.”