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December 4, 2020 at 8:20 am
The Times Dealbook section features a special report on "How To Fix America." Explains the Times, "we asked top experts for one idea..." Somewhat jarringly, the second "expert" on the list is Robert F. Smith, chief executive of Vista Equity Partners, who proposes to "persuade" companies to "donate 2 percent of their income to do good." The Times doesn't mention it, but here is a report from last month in the Washington Post:
First Person in the Lead News Article December 1, 2020 at 8:25 am
The first person makes an unusual and arguably jarring appearance in the top front-page news article of today's print New York Times. In an article about the coronavirus, Donald G. McNeil Jr. writes:
It's all a bit too meta- for my taste. I'd rather hear about the virus and the vaccines than how the virus and vaccine matches the prior expectations of the Times reporter, or the reporter's vacillation between "pessimism" and "optimism," however those are defined. At least in the front-page news articles. But I am even less hopeful than I was about the possibility of the New York Times adhering to longstanding journalistic conventions.
A Pulitzer in "Service Journalism"? October 30, 2020 at 8:52 am
From a New York Times business section article on journalist Glenn Greenwald's resignation from the Intercept: "At the time of the leaks, Mr. Greenwald worked for the United States edition of The Guardian newspaper, and the aggressive reporting he conducted with two colleagues, Ewen MacAskill and the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, gave The Guardian US the Pulitzer Prize in service journalism in 2014." The 2014 Pulitzer won by The Guardian US was for public service, not "service journalism," which is a term for how-to articles that help readers do things: "How to be productive while working at home," "How to renovate your kitchen without losing your mind," etc. There is no Pulitzer Prize in "service journalism," unfortunately for the hardy souls who churn out these articles, which do, when well done, provide a service to readers, though less glamorously than the investigative crusades that often win the Pulitzer for public service.
The Wine-Affordability Problem, and Socialists For Biden October 28, 2020 at 9:21 am
Two exhibits in today's installment of "I don't know who these guys think their intended audience is, but I don't think this was written for me": Exhibit no. 1: The front page of the New York Times food section carries an article headlined "Income Inequality And Great Wines." It complains that "Income Inequality Has Erased Your Chance to Drink the Great Wines." The lead example involves how "back in 1994, a bottle of Comte Georges de Vogüé Musigny 1991, a grand cru, retailed for $80 (the equivalent of $141 in 2020, accounting for inflation). Today, that bottle costs about $800." "It is impossible for most people to pay for these wines," the Times article complains. The article does not mention that $800 is less than the price of a seven-day home delivery subscription to the Times, which is now $20 a week, or $1,050 a year. Nor does it consider the possibility that a group of people might chip in and share an expensive bottle. October 25, 2020 at 4:26 pm
More and more, the Times is so "woke" as to be almost unreadable. The Sunday "T" magazine carries an adoring profile of Angela Davis, labeled under the category "The Greats." Among the highlights, or lowlights, depending on how you see it:
Then:
October 24, 2020 at 10:44 pm
A New York Times op-ed by Stephen Wertheim, "deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University," includes this passage:
Fact-Checking a Trump Vaccine Campaign Ad Fact-Check October 20, 2020 at 8:03 am
A New York Times "fact check" of a Trump campaign commercial faults the ad: "Later, the ad says Mr. Trump is 'developing a vaccine in record time.' While potential vaccines may arrive in record time, they are being developed by private companies, not by Mr. Trump or his administration." Who will fact check the fact-checkers? Here is the New York Times's Science section's own "vaccine tracker." Pfizer: "The Trump administration awarded a $1.9 billion contract in July for 100 million doses to be delivered by December and the option to acquire 500 million more doses." October 4, 2020 at 11:02 pm
The double standards of the New York Times are on clear display in the newspaper's coverage of illegal drugs. Sunday's New York Times style section carries a mostly laudatory feature about parents turning to drugs during the pandemic: "Though there aren't reliable statistics that break down parents' use of alcohol, marijuana and anti-anxiety medications specifically, overall adult use of these substances has gone up since the pandemic began, said Dr. Nora D. Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse." October 4, 2020 at 10:15 pm
The Sunday Times Real Estate section, under the headline "Love and the Lockdown," devotes a page to stories of couples deciding to move in together during the pandemic. The article mentions, and includes photographs of, six different couples, all six of whom appear to be white and heterosexual. If a Republican campaign rally or political convention or corporate board looked like this, the Times would be all over it for the lack of diversity. September 29, 2020 at 9:00 am
The latest example of how the New York Times is throwing traditional journalistic objectivity overboard in its effort to defeat President Trump comes toward the end of a long investigative article (the second in a series) about the president's tax returns. The Times writes, "After he announced his candidacy in 2015 with racist comments about Mexicans, NBC, which carried 'The Apprentice,' cut ties with him and he sold his interest in the Miss Universe pageant, another reliable moneymaker."
Times News Columns Join Anti-Trump Resistance September 26, 2020 at 10:50 pm
The approaching election seems to be tempting the New York Times into partisanship. Here are three recent examples where the Times seems to have stopped even attempting to appear neutral. Example No. 1. A Times news article headlined "Justice Dept. Aids Trump's False Narrative on Voting." This almost comically tilted article begins:
September 18, 2020 at 9:08 am
Today's New York Times offers a rare opportunity for a side-by-side comparison of how the newspaper covers Democrats and Republicans with similar policies. Here is a passage from a Times news article about President Trump proposing an arms sale to Taiwan: "The proposed sales come as President Trump and his campaign strategists try to paint him as tough on China in the run-up to the election in November. They are eager to divert the conversation among American voters away from Mr. Trump's vast failures on the coronavirus pandemic and the economy, and to paper over his constant praise for Xi Jinping, China's authoritarian leader, and his earlier encouragement or tolerance of some of Mr. Xi's most repressive policies, including in the regions of Xinjiang and Hong Kong." September 7, 2020 at 10:13 am
Over at the Algemeiner, I have a piece headlined "New York Times Marks World War II Anniversary With Harsh Criticism of U.S." August 30, 2020 at 10:42 am
With about seven posts in the past couple of weeks, this site has been more active this past month than it has been recently. If you like what you are seeing and want it to continue, please help make it possible by becoming a paying subscriber. The "How to Help" page is here. Thanks in advance. August 30, 2020 at 9:42 am
A subheadline in the New York Times magazine, over an article about Donald Trump, Jr., reports, "Of all the president's children, he has the strongest connection to the politics, voters and online disinformation ecosystem that put his father in the White House."
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