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Protests

• May 11 -- Times Relays Half-Cocked Anti-Gun Stats
Glen Justice reviews a Mother's Day gun-control rally in D.C, the start of a campaign to lobby for renewal of a ban on assault weapons.
 

• December 12 -- Callers Grill Times on Baghdad Protest Blackout
When C-SPAN aired live from NYT's Washington bureau, callers asked bureau reporters and editors about the paper' lack of coverage of Wednesday's anti-terrorist demonstration in Baghdad--a question Times Watch and others have asked.

• December 11 -- No Good News From Baghdad?
Is the Times burying good news from Baghdad? Edward Wong's dispatch at first reads like another round of Baghdad bad news--until the ninth paragraph: " In contrast, a heavily policed march in central Baghdad on Wednesday, organized peacefully by the country's major political parties, drew thousands of Iraqis to protest attacks by guerrilla fighters, which have injured and killed Iraqi civilians as well as occupiers."

• November 18 -- George Bush, Oil Tool
As George Bush prepares to go to London, Sunday's report by Alan Cowell describes in loving detail the European anti-war laundry list of anti-Bush particulars, and even gets Vietnam into the mix.

• November 18 -- A Press Release for Left-Wing Disruptors
Left-wing anti-globalization activists are gearing up for a Miami trade meeting, and the Times helps with a glowing profile of left-wing activist Lisa Fithian: "Fithian will join them, but she doesn't care too much about the march. It doesn't need her. It needs numbers. Direct action--to physically 'shut it down'--is her calling. Blocking the Miami airport, preventing delegates from getting inside the conference center, ripping a hole in the protective fence--these things need her."

• August 21 -- The Return of George Wallace?
Jeffrey Gettleman files two stories on the Alabama judge who installed a Ten Commandments monument at the state Supreme Court. In his early filing he compares the judge and his supporters to Alabama’s segregationist governor George Wallace. Later he finds an anti-religious activist to make the comparison for him.

• June 3 -- “Least-Civilized” Students Heckle Chris Hedges
Sunday’s Times addresses the controversy over reporter Chris Hedges’ anti-war commencement speech by blaming uncivilized students. But does campus incivility come only from the pro-war perspective? Judging from the Times coverage, yes.