Times Uses Librarian Obit to Bash "Insidious Portion" of Patriot Act
Plus: The Times calls a single group "ultraconservative" 15 times but has only used the term "ultraliberal" to describe any liberal group once. ByClay WatersThe American Library Association's Judith...
View ArticleWalter Cronkite Tribute Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
Was longtime CBS newsman Walter Cronkite really "uncomfortable expressing opinion"? He made his liberal views well-known, especially after his retirement from the anchor chair. ByClay WatersThe Times...
View ArticleStout Plays Up John Murtha's Anti-War Turn in Obit, But Omits Smear of...
David Stout's obituary for old-line Democratic Rep. John Murtha omitted the congressman's smear of Marines in Iraq, who he accused of killing Iraqi civilians "in cold blood." ByClay WatersJohn Murtha,...
View ArticleThe Times Left Mao's Atrocities Out of Obituary for Physicist Turned Maoist...
The Washington Post headline: "Joan Hinton, worked on Manhattan Project and became devoted Mao follower, dies at 88." The New York Times headline: "Joan Hinton, 88, Physicist Who Chose China Over...
View ArticleNY Times Leaves Mao's Atrocities Out of Obituary for Physicist Turned Maoist...
ByClay WatersThe New York Times' obituary Saturday for Manhattan Project physicist turned Maoist Joan Hinton, by William Grimes, left out her Maoist beliefs in both the headline - "Joan Hinton, 88,...
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CBS's Axelrod: 'All Better Informed' By 'Legendary' Left-Wing Journalist...
ByKyle DrennenOn Saturday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Jim Axelrod reported on the death of former CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr, declaring that he "was an old-school broadcast journalist, he was...
View ArticleTimes Uses Economist's Obituary to Jab at Successful Airline Deregulation
Robert Hershey puts airline deregulation on the defensive in his obituary for deregulation architect Arthur Kahn: "The changes Mr. Kahn orchestrated resulted in increased competition, lower fares and...
View ArticleThe 'Intellectual Curiosity' and 'Mischievous Sense of Humor' of Murderous...
From the obituary for violent Communist revolutionary Che Guevara's traveling companion, by reporter Victoria Burnett: "They became close friends, sharing an intellectual curiosity, a mischievous...
View ArticleThe 'Fiercely Principled' Jack Kevorkian Helped 'Spur the Growth of Hospice...
A Times obituary for Jack Kevorkian, who practiced ad-hoc euthanasia, gave him credit for principle while eliding much of his creepiness, recounted by a fellow Times reporter: "Kevorkian was obsessed...
View ArticleDouble Standard: 'Enigmatic' North Korean 'Rulers,' but Right-Wing...
Can we declare a moratorium? December 17, 2011 web headline: "Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Enigmatic Strongman. A July 10, 1994 headline: "Kim Il Sung, Enigmatic 'Great Leader' of North Korea for 5...
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NBC: Gore Vidal 'Unquestionably Brilliant'; William F. Buckley 'Paid Dearly...
ByKyle Drennen In a glowing tribute to radical left-wing commentator Gore Vidal on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams could barely contain his adoration for the "prolific writer" who...
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NYTimes Obit Proves It: Left Still Won't Forgive Sen. Specter for Being Mean...
ByClay WatersNew York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg penned an obituary in Monday's edition for former Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who died Sunday morning.read more
View ArticleNY Times Credits 'Populist' Despot Hugo Chavez for 'Empowering...Millions of...
ByClay WatersVenezuelan despot Hugo Chavez is dead of cancer at age 58, the end of a bizarre odyssey that took him to Communist Cuba in a failed attempt at a cure. William Neuman's off-lead story in...
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NYT Takes Offensively Soft Approach in Obit of Proud Mother of Hamas Killers
ByClay WatersSaturday's New York Times took an offensively soft approach to the death of a Hamas terrorist instigator who raised her sons to kill Jews: "Mariam Farhat, 64, the 'Mother of Martyrs.'"...
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Margaret Thatcher a 'Dominant Yet Divisive Figure' Who Helped 'Unravel Social...
ByClay WatersThe death at 87 of former British Prime Minister and Cold War conservative icon Margaret Thatcher was marked with a respectful obituary on Tuesday's front page by Joseph Gregory: "'Iron...
View ArticleTimes Uses Librarian Obit to Bash "Insidious Portion" of Patriot Act
Plus: The Times calls a single group "ultraconservative" 15 times but has only used the term "ultraliberal" to describe any liberal group once. ByClay WatersThe American Library Association's Judith...
View ArticleWalter Cronkite Tribute Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
Was longtime CBS newsman Walter Cronkite really "uncomfortable expressing opinion"? He made his liberal views well-known, especially after his retirement from the anchor chair. ByClay WatersThe Times...
View ArticleStout Plays Up John Murtha's Anti-War Turn in Obit, But Omits Smear of...
David Stout's obituary for old-line Democratic Rep. John Murtha omitted the congressman's smear of Marines in Iraq, who he accused of killing Iraqi civilians "in cold blood." ByClay WatersJohn Murtha,...
View ArticleThe Times Left Mao's Atrocities Out of Obituary for Physicist Turned Maoist...
The Washington Post headline: "Joan Hinton, worked on Manhattan Project and became devoted Mao follower, dies at 88." The New York Times headline: "Joan Hinton, 88, Physicist Who Chose China Over...
View ArticleNY Times Leaves Mao's Atrocities Out of Obituary for Physicist Turned Maoist...
ByClay WatersThe New York Times' obituary Saturday for Manhattan Project physicist turned Maoist Joan Hinton, by William Grimes, left out her Maoist beliefs in both the headline - "Joan Hinton, 88,...
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