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Television

• October 21 -- Stanley Gives "Stolen Honor" a Hearing
TV critic Alessandra Stanley has never been friendly to conservative causes, so it's a bit of a surprise that her review of "Stolen Honor" isn't completely negative.

• October 1 -- Must-See TV: "Everybody Hates Women"?
Television today is infected with sexism and racism, says TV-beat reporter Alessandra Stanley: "Television executives have giddily reverted to the sexism and racism that brought the humor police down on the networks in the first place….It's not just that Everybody Loves Raymond. Now Everybody Hates Women."

• July 28 -- Foxy Republicans
The Times claims Republicans are "Fox's natural constituency."

• July 21 -- And "Some Say" the NYT Is Liberal Propaganda
A.O. Scott likes "Outfoxed," the new anti-Fox News documentary: "There is also an amusing, appalling dissection of the way Fox uses the phrase 'some say,' as in 'some say Senator Kerry has a tendency to flip-flop,' not to cloak a source but to camouflage a statement of opinion." Scott also seems to consider Bill O'Reilly the second coming of Joe McCarthy.

• July 1 -- Bush Ad "Troubling." Nancy Reagan, "Attack Dog"
Alessandra Stanley uses an online exhibition of presidential campaign ads past and present to hit a Bush ad she finds "troubling." Also: Do only Republicans engage in attacks?

• June 1 -- Not Liking "Ike"
TV critic Alessandra Stanley dislikes Ike--or at least the A&E movie "Ike," which she says is "veined with the defensive self-righteousness that many conservatives expressed about the Vietnam war and now Iraq."

• February 20 -- Pox On Fox
Neil MacFarquhar sure knows how to hurt a guy. Reciting criticism of U.S.-sponsored Arab-language TV station Al Hurra, he notes: "Analysts have labeled it 'Fox News in Arabic.'"

• February 9 -- Dennis Miller, Right-Wing Zealot
Can the Times forgive comedian Dennis Miller for becoming a Bush fan?

• January 30 -- Critics of Liberal Bias Should "Get Out More"
In her review of Dennis Miller's new talk show, Alessandra Stanley wonders how conservatives can possibly complain about liberal bias: "Conservatives in Hollywood and New York always complain about stigma and persecution in the media and entertainment worlds, which makes one wonder why they don't get out more."

• January 5 -- Defending "The Reagans" Once More
TV critic Alessandra Stanley: "It is hard to get too indignant about CBS's lapse after a year that included…the cancellation of the mini-series 'The Reagans,' after a lobbying effort by right-wing groups who never saw the film."

• December 4 -- Conservative Critics Ill-Informed?
TV writer Bill Carter claims a Reagan-bashing movie "was dropped by CBS last month after a wave of protest from conservative groups who charged, sight unseen, that it was an attack on former President Ronald Reagan." But they'd heard about its anti-Reagan tilt from no less an authority than the Times--and the finished product proves their concern was justified.

• December 1 -- The "Reasonably Accurate" and "Respectful" Reagan Movie
While even the Washington Post's liberal TV critic finds "The Reagans" to be "unseemly and hugely inappropriate," Alessandra Stanley of the Times wonders what all the fuss is about: "Anyone eagerly anticipating or dreading a hatchet job on the 40th President is bound to feel confounded. James Brolin's portrayal of Ronald Reagan is uncannily convincing and respectful."

• November 25 -- Cowardly CBS Caves in to Censors
Emily Nussbaum's piece on the decline and fall of the television miniseries opens by calling CBS' cancellation of its biased miniseries on the Reagans "de facto censorship."

• November 19 -- AIDS "Angels" vs. "Rancid" Reaganites
Editor Frank Rich pens a poisonous, 2,200-word excoriation of the Reagan administration's attitude toward AIDS in a hagiography of HBO's adaptation of the anti-Reagan gay advocacy play "Angels in America." Rich writes: "This epic is, among other things, a searing indictment of how the Reagan administration's long silence stoked the plague of AIDS in the 1980's....it accurately conveys the rancid hypocrisy among powerful closeted gay Republicans in Washington as AIDS spiraled."

• November 7 -- Praise for US Military Prowess? Perish the Thought
Alessandra Stanley likes at least one thing about the TV-docudrama "Saving Jessica Lynch-- there's not too much pro-military stuff: "The filmmakers avoid having to make up details about Private Lynch's ordeal or delivering too jingoistic a paean to American military prowess."

• November 7 -- 2003: CBS Wrong to Cave Into Conservative Pressure; 2002: CBS Wrong NOT to Cave Into Liberal Pressure
A Times editorial accuses conservative groups of creating a "Soviet-style chill" by pressing CBS on "The Reagans." But when a feminist group pressured CBS on the Masters, the Times trumpeted the "pull the plug" cause.

• November 6 -- Reagan, AIDS and Pope Pius XII
TV critic Alessandra Stanley reviews the melodrama over the botched and biased CBS miniseries "The Reagans," counting conservatives as hypocrites and painting Pope Pius XII in an anti-Semitic light.

• October 10 -- Bush's Iraq War "Deception"
Alessandra Stanley reviews an Iraq war documentary and repeats liberal disinformation: "White House deception is the real focus of the program, which draws two main conclusions…that the administration twisted the facts to paint Mr. Hussein as an imminent threat." Bush never made such a threat.