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Kate Zernike

• October 20 -- Anti-Kerry Film Accusations "Far Beyond Reality"
After much press hyperventilation, someone finally looks at "Stolen Honor," the anti-Kerry documentary that Sinclair Broadcast Group is to air Friday night: "The film is rife with out-of-context and incomplete quotations from Mr. Kerry and other antiwar veterans. Several historians said many accusations in it were not provable or stretched far beyond reality."

• October 8 -- Taking the Shine off St. Ralph
The Times again sics Ralph Nader, this time on possible fraud in signature collecting in Pennsylvania, a swing state where Nader's presence on the ballot would hurt Kerry.

• September 21 -- Dan Rather (Sort of) Apologizes; NYT Notices
The Times fronts Dan Rather's "apology."

• September 16 -- Experts Split on Authenticity of CBS's "Memos"?
The Times (unlike the Washington Post) buries its update on CBS's apparently fraudulent "memos" while again insisting there's still room for doubt: "For every expert who said the documents were patently false, another insisted they could be authentic."

• September 15 -- The Times Digs Deeper Into Anti-Bush "Memos"
The Times' latest story on CBS's "memos" has some interesting new information on the network and its likely source for the discredited documents.

• September 14 -- Catching Up on "Memogate"
The Times follows up on "memogate" in the tamely headlined "CBS Offers New Experts To Support Guard Memos." The story is more skeptical, though not as hard-hitting as one in the Washington Post.

• September 7 -- Reviving an Anti-Bush Sr. Urban Legend
Kate Zernike revives an anti-Bush Sr. urban legend, the myth that during the 1992 campaign, George H.W. Bush marveled at a grocery-store scanner as if he'd never seen one before.

• August 27 -- Still Ignoring Kerry's "Christmas In Cambodia"
The Times again couches Swift Boat charges in a dubious light: "The Swift boat veterans, whose most serious charges have been contradicted by official records, some of their own past statements and a number of witnesses, got most of their initial money from Texans supportive of the president." Plus: Kerry in Cambodia, ignored again.

• August 25 -- More Guilt by Association for Swifties
Another Times story employs guilt by association against the Swift Boat Veterans: "Mr. Bush's campaign aides have repeatedly said they have no connection to the group, almost all of whose challenges to Mr. Kerry and his war record have been contradicted by official war records and even some of its members' own past statements….it has gradually acknowledged ties to people close to the Republican Party and Mr. Bush's campaign."

• August 24 -- More Anti-Swift Bias from a Paper "Calling Itself" Objective
Elisabeth Bumiller and Kate Zernike's front-page story on Bush denouncing outside political ads includes a dismissive description of the Swift Boat Vets. Also: What about the "web of ties" between the left-wing Moveon.org and the Kerry campaign?

• August 20 -- "The Times Attacks the Swift Vets"
The Times finally devotes a front-page story to the Swift Boat veterans challenging John Kerry's Vietnam war record--but it follows a pattern reminiscent of the Clinton scandal days in focusing on the subjects making the attack instead of the actual anti-Democratic charges raised, an angle clear from the headline, "Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Attack on Kerry."

• July 12 -- No Hypocrisy Among Wealthy "Populist" Democrats?
Michael Moss and Kate Zernike dip their toes lightly into the matter of hypocrisy on the wealthy Democratic ticket--but quickly draw back.

• June 9 -- Abu Ghraib: First like My Lai, Now Like the Nazis?
First the Times compared Abu Ghraib to the Vietnam massacre at My Lai. Now they're upping the ante: "While nudity as a disciplinary or coercive tool may be especially objectionable to Muslims, they are hardly the only victims of the practice. Soldiers in Nazi Germany paraded naked prisoners in daylight…."

• April 9 -- The Obesity "Epidemic"
The teaser to a story on lawyers drooling over the upcoming feast of fast-food litigation reads: "With obesity now recognized as an epidemic, a wave of litigation looms." Is overeating actually contagious?