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Pinch Happened
Under its diminutive publisher the New York Times has become a vocal tool of the left — and now it’s made its final move to secure Obama’s reelection.
It’s been a bad month for the New York Times. The feeding frenzy it tried to stir up over Sarah Palin’s e-mails left the sharks unfed. And the “investigative” story that was supposed to prove Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be an unethical scoundrel fell flat because its theory was unsupported by the facts.
To top it all off, the Times is — for the third time in as many years — in an open feud with New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan for what the gentleman correctly labels anti-Catholic reporting.
But none of that will change the Times’ behavior. The Times is preparing itself for a huge push to re-elect President Obama and will leave no story unpublished that could possibly help Obama or hurt his opponent, regardless of who it is.
How did the New York Times — the paper of Abe Rosenthal, R.W. “Johnny” Apple and Bill Safire — become the paper of Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd? What changed it from the liberal paper that had been most fair to Ronald Reagan to the home of angry liberalism?
What happened? Pinch happened.
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. — known as “Pinch,” a diminutive of his father’s nickname, “Punch” — became the paper’s publisher in 1992 and has steadily transformed what was a newspaper into an ideological tool of the left. The final stage of that transformation will be completed in September, when Jill Abramson becomes the paper’s executive editor.
“Pinch” Sulzberger, as he demonstrated in his May 2006 graduation speech at SUNY New Paltz, is committed to a 1960s-vintage liberal ideology. He told the students, “You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, be it the rights of immigrants to start a new life; the rights of gays to marry; or the rights of women to choose. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where oil still drives policy and environmentalists have to relentlessly fight for every gain. You weren’t. But you are. And for that I’m sorry.”
Sulzberger’s dogged misrule of the Times was first characterized by his ejection of established newsmen who had built the Times brand since World War II in favor of more ideological writers. In 1999, he took former Times executive editor Abe Rosenthal’s column away, forcing him to retire. Rosenthal was a real newsman who had built a corps of reporters with a fierce desire to seek out stories. That creed conflicted with Pinch’s vision of the paper’s future.
In 2003, Sulzberger was embarrassed into firing executive editor Howell Raines when fabulist Jayson Blair’s contrived stories were exposed. By then, as Raines later wrote in the Atlantic, the Times newsroom was so union-dominated (the Newspaper Guild’s members are so work-resistant and hard to fire) that the reporters didn’t want to travel to get stories: they sit at their desks and “report” by searching the Internet.
Sulzberger replaced Raines with Bill Keller, an established newsman. “Pinch” chose Keller over investigative reporter and Washington editor Jill Abramson, who had been campaigning for the job. But, as sources close to the Times told me then, Keller wasn’t sufficiently liberal so Sulzberger invested Abramson (elevated to managing editor) and her close friend Maureen Dowd with the power to go around Keller’s decisions.
Under Keller — really, under Pinch — the Times published several stories that damaged national security. The biggest was James Risen’s 2006 stories on the top-secret National Security Agency terrorist surveillance program. The Times held the NSA story for almost a year while Risen wrote a book about it, then published the same day the book was offered for sale. The story and the book were published despite personal appeals from President Bush. Another, about the secret cooperation of the Belgian “SWIFT” consortium in tracing terrorist financing, was equally damaging.
This was pure Pinch: eagerly publishing top-secret information not out of traitorous intent, but in willful blindness to the effects on national security just to damage George W. Bush.
Risen, who should be rotting in jail until he discloses his sources for the NSA story, is now being subpoenaed to testify in the trial of alleged leaker James Sterling. In a sworn affidavit filed last week in support of a motion to quash the subpoena, Risen testifies that his reporting of the NSA stories drew personal praise from Sulzberger.
Paragraph 8 of the affidavit says that in 2007 Risen received a personal letter from Sulzberger. It said, “Your investigative reporting has been an extraordinary asset to the paper since the day you joined us…But it has now become a central reason that our Washington report is admired by our readers — not to mention leaders around the nation and the world.” High praise for reporting that damaged national security and falsely accused the Bush administration of acting illegally.
Sulzberger wanted to take no chances in 2012. He has pushed Keller aside in favor of the even more liberal Abramson.
About the Author
Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.
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drudge ette obama| 6.27.11 @ 6:42AM
"All the news that is fit to print" is now "all the libel printed that's possible". Even progressives will eventually want facts because you can't drive in the fog.
The New York Times is toast. I love it when they call my house to induce me to become a subscriber. I waste the time of the caller and return pre-paid envelopes with local circulars. (The rebellion of the true grass roots.)
Ultimately, media buyers demand eyeballs and the the number of eyeballs reading the NY Times is dwindling. All the editorial proclivity this Pinch idiot may think he has will be worthless without ads.
The Wall Street Journal is my paper of choice for both reading and then lining my dogs' crates. The pooches refuse to eat in a NY Times-lined cage. Smart dogs read smart papers. Period.
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I think the NYT moved from the Left to the hard Left. Oh yes there were more Conservative writes for the OP Ed page but not the 'NEWS'.
Teaghan| 6.27.11 @ 9:44AM
So when will the Times disappear?
Our newpaper is the WSJ as well. We even canceled our local rag.
mike w| 6.27.11 @ 5:20PM
The WSJ is just as bad in some ways. After watching a neoclown names Bret Stephens who is apparently the deputy editorial page editor, on CNN last week I realize why they are detestable.
The NYT has been a joke for a years without any since of fairness.
maximumrandb| 6.28.11 @ 1:23PM
I would love to cancel my local rag too, the NJ (Red) Star Ledger, but my wife insists on keeping it for notices of estate sales. My father in Boston did after many years cancel his subscription to the NY Time's mini-me, the ultra-liberal Boston Globe and switched to the conservative Boston Herald. So these left-wing papers are losing readers. But the WSJ is the mainstay.
Occam's Tool| 6.27.11 @ 4:18PM
The NYT has no redeeming qualities. A Newspaper of, for, and by vermin.
Ted| 6.27.11 @ 5:14PM
The NYT has ONE redeeming quality. It is useful to manure my flowerbeds....
Scott| 6.28.11 @ 2:52AM
It's also great for cleaning the windows on your car. Don't buy it though; get a reasonably clean one out of a dumpster somewhere.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.27.11 @ 6:50AM
A growth industry on the internet is exposing the lies of the drive by media. Market forces work, and in the case of the liberal media, whose day has come and gone, they are driving it into the ditch.
Kenny| 6.27.11 @ 6:53AM
Who can the NY Times possibly influence?
Their time is long gone. The readers who rely on the Times are made fools of day after day when they open their mouths.
SpiralArchitect| 6.27.11 @ 5:22PM
Yes, none of those people of which you speak vote, right?
Gary| 6.27.11 @ 6:57AM
A smart Republican candidate (is there such an animal?) will position the liberal press as identical to Obama and campaign against both of them simutaneously. The press is so blatantly biased their own headlines can be used against them every day.
Of course, this assumes the Republican candidate is not a RINO at heart and isn't afraid to call the press out. So, who on our current list of candidates fits the bill? Bachmann comes the closest in my humble opinion.
Rule #1: DO NOT SHRINK FROM THE PRESS! Go on the offensive against them.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.27.11 @ 7:04AM
We conservatives need to go into the belly of the beast and PAY for adds in the communist media...
RIPPING the communist media.
Heck, they need the revenue. heh.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.27.11 @ 7:06AM
Picture Sarah running adds on MSNBC etc. laughing at them.
Mattled| 6.27.11 @ 8:01AM
Ken,
I have been trying to get someone (namely Breitbart and Brent Bozell) to do this since 2009.
Bozell did do a 2.5MM campaign called "Fight The Bias", but one big huge mistake------he didn't name names.
He used logos---ABC, NBC, CBS and NYT.
Call out Matt Lauer, Katie, Diane, Schieffer- et al.
We need to pre-empt their attack with our own attack on the media. Let people know who don't pay attention to politics that they are being lied to on the morning shows and evening newscasts.
With the media on the defensive, they will be stymied and put valuable resources into defending themselves instead of protecting Ozero.
I'm in for 100 towards the ad campaign!!!
Gary| 6.27.11 @ 8:24AM
Mattled,
Exactly! But, building a separate war chest is a tough row to hoe. That's why a candidate should do this in conjunction with his or her overall campaign effort. That's where the budgets are.
I believe that a candidate would tap into and channel a huge amount of pent-up anger against the liberal press and, by association, against Obama, by doing this. Trump showed us that it works.
Will a Republican candidate do this? I think only Bachmann show signs of it.
alice moore| 6.27.11 @ 9:03AM
Remember in 1988, the mild mannered George Bush Sr. did a verbal smack down of Dan Rather. I think those few seconds along with the Dukakis in a Tank photo helped to secure Sr's election. It can be done again!
Tax All Liberals| 6.27.11 @ 2:36PM
Dukie in a tank .... that has to be the most precious memory in the last 25 years.
Occam's Tool| 6.28.11 @ 1:47AM
Yes, "Dukie" (slang for poo and Dukakis) in a tank.
Bob Grant| 6.27.11 @ 9:28PM
That's the ONE quality in which she excels : tweaking the media. I say she should "go for it"!
NJK| 6.27.11 @ 7:21AM
"A steady stream of RNC-sponsored television commercials poking fun at the NBC/MSNBC ranters, at the New York Times' and Washington Post's selective reporting and such would do two things. First, the commercials would make the media an issue that the Democrats will try to defend and can't. The targets of the campaign will spin themselves into a frenzy of defense, taking time away from their pro-Obama activities." This is a great idea. I agree with the "Timidity" part though. It's such an embarrassent.
That is why I no longer give to them. When they act like the warriors they should and not appeasers I may change my mind. They no longer even call me. I guess they got the message.
Gary| 6.27.11 @ 8:27AM
NJK,
That's exactly why I stopped donating to them, too. They're part of the establishment and are quite comfortable in the minority position. It's their role to pretend to care about the Constitution. The Tea Party is a big factor in calling them out on this.
irish19| 6.27.11 @ 12:25PM
Same here. I will give directly to conservative candidates. I will not allow the RNC to funnel my money to RINOs.
The RNC is no better, at this point in time, than the legacy media.
Occam's Tool| 6.27.11 @ 4:20PM
Or, another thing that can be done, Irish, is to contribute to DeMint's PAC for electing Conservatives as opposed to Republicans.
Clint| 6.27.11 @ 5:38PM
We Tea Party Patriots Are Keeping Our Powder Dry & Wallets Closed, Regarding DeMint & The Plastic RINO-CINO Romney.
"DeMint has not taken sides in the 2012 presidential race but told CNN over the weekend that he "will know by the fall" which Republican he will support.
He said he is keeping an "open mind" about the candidates and did not rule out supporting Romney again."
Timothy L. Pennell| 6.27.11 @ 7:38AM
Nobody that reads that Yellow Sheet is gonna Vote Republican, anyway. Let them print their propaganda. The shut ins , and the dread locked, birkenstocked Mumia defenders, are the only ones reading it. It's little more than a print version of the daily Kooks. Let them rant.
NOBODY is listening.
alice moore| 6.27.11 @ 9:15AM
Timothy, the NYT's influence is insidious. Local and national news networks use it as a source. This would be the three non cable networks. Believe it or not they still have the largest viewership. Many viewers, who are otherwise conservative, believe what is said and vote accordingly.
I truly do wish that the NYT was just some type of Mother Jones magazine with a teeny niche audience.
In my earlier post, it was pointed out, a well calculated verbal smack down of one of the reporters would work wonders. This is not beyond the capabilities of any of the GOP field. I sure hope it is not beyond the willingness of the GOP field.
martin j smith| 6.27.11 @ 7:38AM
I think the NYT moved from the Left to the hard Left. Oh yes there were more Conservative writes for the OP Ed page but not the 'NEWS'. The "NEWS" THE "NEWS" for the NYT has just become more obviously" state controlled" that even a Cave Man can see that. The ONLY reason to "read" the NYT is to study it as Izvestia and Pravda were studied in the USSR days.
Darcy | 6.27.11 @ 8:09AM
From Russel Baker to Mo Dowd. What a fall that was.
Gary| 6.27.11 @ 8:28AM
I wonder what their stockholder meetings are like. Do they even have them?
Anthony| 6.27.11 @ 9:53AM
Gary, Why bother, the Sultzberger's created two classes of stock, so that the family controls completely.
The other schlubs who own the "B" stock have as much say over the NYT as the fan in section 308 has over the Yankees operation.
Gary| 6.27.11 @ 5:21PM
I wouldn't go to one. I was wondering how their current stockholders feel abou t this dope running the busines into the ground.
Run a huge family business down to zero . More evidence that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Clint| 6.27.11 @ 8:31AM
"As counter-media fuels tea party movement, main stream media catches on
The mainstream media ‘can no longer control the narrative’ of American culture, contends counter-media mogul Andrew Breitbart in a fiery speech to Tea Party Conventioneers. But that doesn’t mean tea partiers are saying ‘no comment’ to establishment reporters.
“Technology has been a great equalizer,” says Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation website, a sort of tea party Facebook that sponsored this weekend convention. “It reminds me of how the British used old-style tactics and the patriots would be behind the trees, shooting.”
Anthony| 6.27.11 @ 9:16AM
Jed, Words have meaning. There is nothing "liberal" about the NYT or the hard core leftists that reside there.
We conservatives are the rightful heirs of the title "liberal", because we are the followers of Edmund Burke's "classic liberalism" in all its wonderful manifestations. The folks at the NYT and other fraudulent media outlets are outright anti-American totalitarian Marxists.
Lit'le Pinch is a rotten trust fund '60s radical, who, like his president, despises America and all that it stands for. He and his ilk have finally attained the power to help destroy the country they so hate.
Don't forget Pinch's famous comment to his father, made during the Viet Nam war, about who he would shoot, an American or a Viet Cong; he famously said to daddy, "the American, because he is the invader".
This man has spent his "professional" life placing America in jeopardy, and has caused countless lives to be lost with his irresponsible, treasonous, reporting of military secrets, a favorite pastime of the NYT, which came to it full '60s radical chic with the "Pentagon Papers" and Daniel Elsberg.
Pinchy, like so many of the reprobate scum at the NYT, delights in the power he has under the Constitution, and like his president, is using the instrumentalities of our great nation, to destroy it.
Not only are they destroying America, they delight and take great pride in their acheivements.
If there was real justice to pay for the crimes he and his fellow leftists at the NYT have done to America, he and his pals would be facing nothing less than a date with the firing squad.
Petronius| 6.27.11 @ 10:30AM
Negative! To die in front of the firing squad is a soldiers death. Traitors are to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Ore Gone| 6.27.11 @ 11:53PM
Personally, I would like to deport all of them for treason and make them stand in line and re-apply for citizenship. You don't respect what you have until you have to work for it. I remember the old "Love it or Leave it" from the Viet Nam era. I'm a veteran who was against the war only in the sense that you should always fight a war to win and let the generals dictate the war not the politicians. Once I saw that my friends were dying for political reasons I became disgusted. You don't sell my friends and neighbors lives for nothing. They are very dear to me. Sorry for the rant but it still hurts.
We need to round up the people that are by their actions causing harm to our country and deport them.
Maddox| 6.27.11 @ 9:31AM
I agree the NYT and other liberal media are commiting suicide in their efforts to support their ideology but it is a slow death that is painful to all of us. The NYT pages may only be read by the liberal elite and granola crunchers but its lies and bias are repeated by ABC, CBS, and NBC. Those lies are repeated at their affiliate stations which are watched religiously by moms and pops all over the country who just love "little Katie" and her cohorts. Add them to the young who still believe socialism can save the world and we have a lot of work in educating the public correctly to do.
PattyMor| 6.27.11 @ 9:32AM
The bias and the obfuscation of the new is why I make it my policy to NEVER ready anything printed by the NYT. If its really important, Rush, or Shawn or Mark will talk about it.
Kristal| 6.27.11 @ 9:34AM
“The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser.
The fool who thinks he is wise is a fool indeed.”
By Dammapada, “The Sayings of the Buddha”
Combine this insight with Plato’s “Know thyself” and another saying, “The uninspected life is not worth living”, and what do you get?
The NYTs on stilts!
I ran into another fabulous quote, that applies to all of us—
“A false identification of soul with ego (is) in terms of a geometrical model, the investment of the volume of an enclosed space with its surface.”
By Fred Wolf, “The Spiritual Universe”.
And, after all, when one simply rests in pondering one’s very PHYSICAL existence, as a body, “enclosed space” says it all.
Bound by an ever changing epidermis, which flakes off pieces of itself constantly, and of course replenishes itself from within, the result of sticking other “enclosed space into the mouth, and swallowing, most of us are INDEED surface “bound” characters.
Why does a clown like Bill Clinton---whose first name should have been DICK, as in, “You dick!”---come to mind?
History will eventually come to understand that the most prominent aspect of his “enclosed space” was hanging between his legs.
You DICK!
Bob K.| 6.27.11 @ 10:00AM
The Times' bottom line will have little Pinch out on his bottom sooner than later and then it will be time to say "Bottoms Up!"
martin j smith| 6.27.11 @ 10:28AM
Here is a joke: In NYT advertisements they claim to be the "best reporters in the world". HAHA
One other thing: Recall the NYT hides the holocaust,and hides Stalin's Collectivization of farms into Kolkhoz ? Millions slaughtered. But that is OK. This explains a lot does it not ?
Dave | 6.27.11 @ 10:43AM
OK, let's take a breath here and try to look at the NYT from an objective point. First of all, the Times has every right to print and publish anything of a *non-slanderous nature (defined in the eye of the reader) they please. Unlike old Pravda Russia and the current state of government filtered media in China, we in the states still live with a free press, even if that press is run by a guy who still shops for proper fitting pants in the juniors department of the mid-town Macy's. No, Kid Pinch is still is free to print what he wants, or spin it any way he leans. What people possessing more than a pair of functioning brain cells should continue doing is (a) stay informed, (b) widen their sources and (c) cut the nightly TV viewing down to "Tomorrow's Weather Outlook with Giggly Dave."
The NYT and their link of clones will always be with us. They're not going away. But it's up to us to remain alert and stay educated enough to separate the b.s. from the beef and not be taken in when that b.s. gets reprinted as actual facts in your local fish wrap, assuming you still get one. At the end of the day, Junior and his partisan posse are kind of like the guy feeding his gold fish every morning. He just strolls to the bowl, pinches a few flakes over the water and pretty soon his 3 prize guppies NBC, CBS and ABC swim right up to the surface and begin their daily feeding.
When you look at it ecologically, it's just a small part of Becoming One With Nature.
George S| 6.27.11 @ 12:06PM
No, they do not have "every right to print and publish anything of a non-slanderous nature (defined in the eye of the reader) they please." One point made here was the Risen article and the potential effect on our security. This is a serious crime (at least in saner times) notwithstanding that it was meant to hurt GWB and not the country. Also, the reader does not define slander (libel, for the printed word) -- it is defined by law, and the law holds a standard of intentional malice. The Times' treatment of Sarah Palin (holding her accountable for the Giffords shooting, for example) would have, not too long ago, been out of bounds for the non-intentional malice protection of press freedom towards a public figure.
Yes, the press is free but as with all freedoms there are limitations within the law. It seems national security compromising and intentional libel are staples of the NYT. Both are against the law.
Dave | 6.27.11 @ 12:58PM
Points on national security ... taken.
davelnaf| 6.27.11 @ 11:30AM
The lavish coverage and daily praise the media poured on Obama pushed critical examination of him out of voters' consciousness.”
I beg to differ on this point. The only people that take liberal rags like the NYT seriously are already so liberal that it is screeching to its own, and every day dwindling, choir. Not that I’m complaining about this in any way. It’s just that conservatives shouldn’t go even an inch down the road the NYT has traveled for many thousands of miles worth of lies and journalistic malpractice.
Gary| 6.27.11 @ 11:45AM
I wouldn't use the NYT rag for toilet paper.
Gary| 6.27.11 @ 5:18PM
I wouldn't either, but I'm a different Gary.
Akaky | 6.27.11 @ 12:08PM
I do not read the Mexican press very often, but it seems to me that Mr. Sulzberger, along with Paris Hilton, is one of the best arguments you can make against the idea of hereditary inheritance.
Franco| 6.27.11 @ 12:45PM
I am dying for President Obama to be defeathed in 2021 if only for the keening that will ensue from the Times (it's biased, I know, but their health and fitness section is rather good, at least the online version which you now have to pay for, as the Times company is going broke).
Such a loss will cause hysterics at the NYT. They will claim that Jim Crow has returned, and will note that several blabk men were lynched at the GOP headquarters. They wil also compare Obama to a Scottsboro boy, with Sarah palin or Michelle Bachman in the role of the witchy, evil white seductress and bearer of false witness.
Can't wait.
Jeremiah| 6.27.11 @ 12:50PM
I resent that, Akaky. How dare you compare that tarted up slut to Paris Hilton? (Actually, I have become rather fond of Paris ever since she did that mock energy commercial in 2008.) Paris has said something smart much more recently than the NYT has - and I would MUCH rather wake up to her than to the NYT.
Controse| 6.27.11 @ 2:06PM
The biggest problem with NYT "news" items is their trickle down dynamic. If Breitbart was a syndicated as widely as the NYT we would have a fighting chance to expose their daily unflagging propaganda.
Purple Lips| 6.27.11 @ 2:17PM
Read the Fleet St rags (the online editions, of course) to get the low down on what's happening in the US. The Daily Telegraph for instance has no compunction about covering a story (with photos of course) of a dozen obese "youth" fighting it out a Miami Micky Ds.
EllisWyatt| 6.27.11 @ 3:52PM
We should change Sulzberger's nickname to "Punch Jr." since that's what most of us would like to do to him.
martin j smith| 6.27.11 @ 4:00PM
As long as you know who the NYT are-your OK. Its the nimrods that take the NYT as THE HOLY WORDS OF SOMETHING THAT ARE THE PROBLEM. At this point, one should not be at all surprised at ANYTHING THE NYT DOES EXCEPT
IF THEY ENDORSE SARA PALIN--Then someone has to have their heads examined and I am not sure who that would be.
CalMark| 6.27.11 @ 5:24PM
Pinch Sulzberger should be in jail for treason and conspiracy. So should many on his staff. Their intent is immaterial.
George W. Bush is in no small part responsible. He politely called treason and sedition in the Times as "respectful disagreement over national policy." Bush's tolerance in no small way enabled the Times to run amok, and get away with it.
shipley130| 6.27.11 @ 7:23PM
Pinch, cutting down trees and burning oil to produce the bird cage liner. Liberals should be medically banned from celebrating July 4th, since they seem to break out in hives with the meer mention of the "F" word....FREEDOM.
Marc Jeric| 6.27.11 @ 9:04PM
It was way back in 1968 that this former refugee from a communist hell started calling the NY Times the NY Pravda. I could see no difference, and ever since the things only got worse.
Bob Grant| 6.27.11 @ 10:05PM
The Pentagon Papers. Enough said!!
POST American| 6.27.11 @ 10:53PM
---The Times, just like the networks, and
most of the other important periodicals
and cultural outlets, is utterly capstone
managed, if not indeed receiving its scripts
directly from the RIIA/CFR and Tavistock
Institute 'hidden masters'.
Likewise our long, long, long ago Rockefeller
infiltrated and subverted, once Chrisitan
churches (SEE 'World Council of Churches'
agendas ---and sources).
What's wrong with the scene?
----------------------That's what's wrong.
These vampires and monsters have to be called out,
prosecuted, stripped of their TAX FREE status
-----and destroyed, once and for all.
IN THE NAME OF GOD -----SURELY
LV excursion monogram canvas | 6.28.11 @ 12:10AM
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weddingdresses | 6.29.11 @ 5:27AM
It was way back in 1968 that this former refugee from a communist hell started calling the NY Times the NY Pravda. I could see no difference, and ever since the things only got worse.
Melvin Provasek| 6.30.11 @ 12:10PM
All your talk about "freedom" and "liberty" is pretty lame when you call for imprisonment and deportation of journalists....
Harrison | 6.30.11 @ 2:29PM
Gee here I thought we were going to have an article on Fox News' Redeye with their satire of the NY Times who is named Pinch. Disappointed!
jb yahudie| 6.30.11 @ 10:21PM
You have it right, especially about conservative media timidity. They have let Liberals play the race card extensively to protect Obama and then been too afraid to fight back. The Right must just push back and answer the slurs with counter-slurs (as necessary) to face down the PC police.
Let's hope you are right about the further demise of the Times, but it is more likely that Leftist rich boys like Soros and the Arab Carlos Slim Helú (BTW where is the extensive reporting on his shenanigans in Mexico?) will spend all that is necessary to protect the flagship of modern-day "progressivism".
James | 7.1.11 @ 9:52AM
Based on a NY Times investigation I came "this close" to selling out my largest investment in a pipeline company situated to prosper from shale gas.
The article had convinced me that shale gas was an Enron-like bubble.
Fortunately for me the market judged the Times article correctly -- its meat was a bunch of years old emails -- and my stock went up the next trading day.
I look forward to the day these tree-killing incompetents go out of business.
Joanne| 7.1.11 @ 4:00PM
Recently I read an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education which asked college professors what was the first thing they did in the morning. ALL answered that they read the New York Times. This is diversity?
cheap bags | 9.8.11 @ 6:10PM
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