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Katharine Seelye

• November 24 -- A Fact-Starved Tidbit on Rising U.S. Hunger
The Times takes a musty liberal anecdote as fact: "In a reflection of a growing need among the working poor, demonstrated in lengthening lines at food banks and pantries, Congress approved an increase of nearly $1.5 billion in the food stamp program."

• November 18 -- Clinton's "Personal Scandal"
Clinton's impeachment for perjury just a "personal scandal"?

• November 3 -- "Conservatives" and "Democratic Stalwarts" in Congress
Robin Toner and Katharine Seelye's front-page story finds plenty of "conservative" winners in Congress but no "liberals," only "Democratic stalwarts."

• October 25 -- The Return of the King

• October 6 -- Dick "the Slasher" Cheney
Reporter Katharine Seelye's blogs the debate between Dick "the slasher" Cheney and the "engaging" John Edwards.

• October 1 -- Still Misquoting Cheney
Adam Nagourney sticks mostly to facts in his rundown of the first presidential debate but works in yet another misleading anecdote about Dick Cheney.

• September 23 -- The Times and the "U" Word
News flash: Times reporter uses "unsubstantiated" to refer to something other than the Swift Boat vets.

• September 10 -- Downplaying Doubts on Dubious Anti-Bush Memos
Yesterday the Times put anti-Bush charges on its front page--charges based on memos suggesting Bush got special treatment during Vietnam. Today the Times files a follow-up story casting grave doubt on the authenticity of those memos--on page A17.

• September 9 -- Taking Anti-Bush Charge Seriously After Dismissing Swifties With Contempt
Katharine Seelye and Ralph Blumenthal treat seriously the new controversy over Bush's Vietnam service--quite a change from how the Times treated the Swift Boat Veterans.

• September 8 -- "Unsubstantiated" Watch
The score is 17-0 so far.

• August 31 -- Party Centrists in Despair
Katharine Seelye cites Hillary Clinton in a story on the plight of the embattled Republican moderate: "Many moderates are irked that in the party's search for independent and undecided voters, it is putting forward moderate candidates but not a moderate agenda, allowing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the New York Democrat, to deride the scene as a Potemkin convention."

• August 12 -- Still Haunted by Max Cleland's Loss
Katharine Seelye's front-page story shows Democrats (and the NYT) still obsessed over Sen. Max Cleland's 2002 defeat: "Republicans ran a television commercial showing pictures of Mr. Cleland, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and said Mr. Cleland 'voted against the president's vital homeland security efforts 11 times.' Mr. Cleland lost his seat."

• July 29 -- More of John "Populist, Not Liberal" Edwards
Edwards: Not liberal, but "populist."

• July 28 -- Celebrating Barack Obama
Katharine Seelye celebrates Barack Obama, the convention's keynote speaker, and doesn’t challenge liberal conspiracy theories of black disenfranchisement in Florida.

• July 27 -- Kennedy, Hillary Voting Records: Liberal or Not?
Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy have "so-called liberal" voting records?

• July 26 -- Giving Bush a Raspberry
Jenna Bush sticks her tongue out. Reporter Katharine Seelye wonders if it could damage her father's image in the war on terror.

• June 9 -- Casualties Rise, War Support Falling
Katharine Seelye covers the political import of governors attending funerals of soldiers from their home states: "In all cases, the governors are feeling their way, a delicate task as casualties rise and, polls show, support for the war falls." Predictably, the story works in criticism of Bush for failing to attend soldiers' funerals.

• May 13 -- Bits of Labeling Bias
Some bits of labeling bias in Thursday's paper, one in Glen Justice's story profiling Democratic fundraising diva Ellen Malcolm.

• February 10 -- Nixonian Politics of Fear Rears Ugly Head (Says Gore)
Katharine Seelye lets Gore compare Bush to Nixon: "[Gore] recalled that President Richard M. Nixon had used 'the politics of fear' to make his father, Albert Gore Sr., out to be unpatriotic and an atheist….He said he recalled that defeat because 'the last three years we've seen the politics of fear rear its ugly head again.'"

• January 27 -- Dean: Still No Liberal
Katharine Seelye seems surprised anyone would call Dean a liberal: "Despite these conservative credentials, Dr. Dean has been cast by some pundits in the presidential campaign as an extreme liberal…"