McCain and the Media
Robert Scheer : Corporate Media & Consolidation
It's absurd for the New York Times to cast him as a tool of corporate media, when he's been in the forefront of trying to rein it in.
2007
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Sold to Mr. Gordon, Another Bridge!
Alexander Cockburn : Media Analysis
The New York Times's credulous reporting of flimsy "evidence" regarding Iranian weapons in Iraq is enabling Bush's anti-Iran propaganda drive.
2006
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Point, No Counterpoint: The Conservative Beat
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
The New York Times editors do a service by covering right-wingers: It would make sense to similarly cover progressives. Why don't they?
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MoDo, Deconstructed
Simon Maxwell Apter : Journalists & Journalism
Maureen Dowd's political analysis is devilishly smart and viciously funny--but the New York Times columnist really should spend less time on the couch.
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The 'Times' Is Us
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
In wartime, you lose the luxury of choosing your allies: The Bush Administration's attacks on the New York Times are attacks on us all.
2005
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A Misguided Crusade
Robert Scheer : Journalists & Journalism
The New York Times exposes its own misguided and unethical campaign to make a terrible reporter a First Amendment saint.
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Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
Why does the New York Times feel compelled to perpetuate the myth that smart, striving women are increasingly opting out of a career to be stay-at-home moms?
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The Red State Times, Continued
Eric Alterman : Corporate Media & Consolidation
The so-called liberal New York Times bashed Bill Clinton every chance it got, and whitewashes Ed Meese. Go figure.
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The 'Times', It Is A-Ragin'
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
Even so-called liberal publications frequently tilt rightward.
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Friedman's Imaginary India
Alexander Cockburn : Globalization
India has a billion people in it, and in reality, maybe 2 percent of them get to fly in a plane or go online.
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Salt in the Wound
Patricia J. Williams : African-Americans
Why is The New York Times Magazine floating an unsubstantiated theory of genetic determinism?
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Join the 14 Percent Club! We Won!
Reading the New York Times reform proposals is like reading a strategy memo from the dying embers of the Dukakis campaign.
2004
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Kristof to the Rescue?
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
Nicholas Kristof is once again accusing American feminists of ignoring Third World women and girls.
2003
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Secrets, Lies and Media Privilege
Robert Scheer : Media Analysis
Protecting the government sources who maligned Wen Ho Lee is wrong.
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'Scoops' and Truth at the Times
Russ Baker : Journalists & Journalism
What happens when Pentagon objectives and journalists' needs coincide.
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Mirror of the 'Times'
James W. Carey : Journalists & Journalism
The ritual of confession, absolution and penance hides as much as it discloses.
2000
This week: Political shifts in the U.K.; Roberto Lovato and Jeanvieve Williams talk about "Juan Crow," a matrix of anti-immigration laws; and Ross Tuttle and Scott Horton look at the chaos in Guantanamo, as the first detainees head to trial. (13mb mp3)
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