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Thomas Friedman Has Read a Children's Coloring Book Called "Capitalism"
Hamilton Nolan · 08/03/16 12:55PMDavid Brooks Is a Working Class Hero
Hamilton Nolan · 06/28/16 08:25AMBill Cunningham Was the Eyes of the City
Tom Scocca · 06/27/16 03:32PMThe streets felt emptied Saturday afternoon, after the news broke that Bill Cunningham would no longer be out in them, taking photographs of people and their clothing. Cunningham died at the age of 87, apparently about as well as one could have hoped—quickly, after a stroke, less than three weeks after his last set of photos had run in the New York Times.
What Is to Be Done About the New York Times Not Giving Credit Where It’s Due?
J.K. Trotter · 06/22/16 01:22PMLast night, the New York Times reported on Iowa Congressman Steve King’s attempt to block the Obama administration from changing the face of the $20 bill from Andrew Jackson to the black abolitionist Harriet Tubman. At first glance, the piece reads as straightforward, workaday journalism. On closer inspection, however, it reveals a few of the paper of record’s most entrenched pathologies.
Hamilton Nolan · 06/07/16 10:20AM
News Organizations Can Now Objectively Say Donald Trump Is Lying
Tom Scocca · 06/02/16 02:20PMOne of the difficulties the mainstream press has faced in covering the Donald Trump campaign is that Trump is a ceaseless and aggressive liar. The traditional etiquette standards known as “objective journalism” discourage media outlets from pointing out that a politician’s message is contrary to known facts—to do so seems like taking sides, or, God forbid, expressing an opinion.
Extremely Unusual Things Are Happening in the "Sunday Routine"
Hamilton Nolan · 05/16/16 07:59AMDonald Trump Is Mad at The New York Times For Doing Factually Accurate Reporting
Melissa Cronin · 05/15/16 09:06AMThe Best of New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat’s Incorrect Predictions That Trump Would Lose the GOP Nomination
J.K. Trotter · 05/05/16 08:11AMThe demises of Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s primary campaigns almost certainly assure, in the absence of some intervening event or act of God, that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President. More importantly, they present the opportunity to recall which political commentators insisted that Trump could never, ever be the nominee. Dozens and dozens (and dozens) of people got Trump’s chances wrong, but if you were to identify the wrongest commentator, you would be hard-pressed to find a better candidate than New York Times’ columnist and National Review film critic Ross Douthat.
Does the New York Times Have an Outing Policy Anymore?
J.K. Trotter · 04/22/16 12:05PMWhen it comes to reporting on the sexual preferences of public figures, the New York Times has a long history of dancing around the subject, often to the point of absurdity. While the paper has no written policy against outing gay public figures who would prefer to keep their sexual identities private, it has taken a very conservative approach to the subject over the years, and has in fact loudly denounced outlets, like Gawker, that have followed a different set of rules. Which is why a recent report in the Times about corporate goings-on at Disney caught my eye: It blithely, and without further context, published a claim that IAC chairman Barry Diller is “a homosexual.”
The New York Times Finally Sniffs Out a Hoax
Jordan Sargent · 04/14/16 11:07AMJ.K. Trotter · 04/11/16 09:15AM
An Incomplete List of Thomas Friedman's Questions
Hamilton Nolan · 03/30/16 09:10AMThe Idea That "The Media" Is to Blame for Donald Trump Is a Lie
Brendan O'Connor · 03/27/16 08:30PMDonald Trump Wants the United States to Run a Global Protection Racket
Brendan O'Connor · 03/26/16 02:05PMHamilton Nolan · 03/25/16 11:41AM
The New York Times Had an Awful Lot of Second Thoughts About Its Story on Bernie Sanders' Legislative Record
Brendan O'Connor · 03/15/16 07:06PMThe New York Times has quietly (and extensively) revised a history of Senator Bernie Sanders’ legislative accomplishments, initially published on Monday morning under the glowing headline, “Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years via Legislative Side Door,” which eventually became the far more reserved “Via Legislative Side Doors, Bernie Sanders Won Modest Victories” and, in print, the even more ambivalent “Sanders’s Roster of Modest Wins.”