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The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper that is published in New York City and distributed to readers worldwide. The newspaper has been awarded the most Pulitzer Prizes of any newspaper, with a total of 95.

Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr.
Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr.

It has been accused by some of holding a liberal point of view.[1][2] It is the third most widely circulated newspaper in the United States behind USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. [3] The New York Times is published by third generation publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Sulzberger has denied the the Times has a liberal viewpoint, and has stated it has an "urban" viewpoint.[4] However, in the summer of 2004, the newspaper's then public editor (ombudsman), Daniel Okrent, published a piece on the Times' liberal bias, and cited the example of their coverage of homosexual marriage.[5][6]

Conservative organizations have offered various pieces of evidence pointing towards the New York Times promoting the homosexual agenda.[7][8][9] Accuracy in Media quotes a report by Peter LaBarbera stating that Richard Berke, the national political correspondent for the New York Times, made an appearance on behalf of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and revealed that three-quarters of the people who now decide what goes on the front page of the New York Times are "not so closeted homosexuals."[10] In addition, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gave the New York Times an award for "Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage".[11] Accuracy in Media gives an account of an official of the group the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation "advising the press not to cover former homosexuals because it would be comparable to quoting the Ku Klux Klan about civil rights."[12] In addition, according to Accuracy in Media the New York Times sent a recruiter to a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention in order to recruit homosexuals as journalists.[13]

Cybercast News Service states the following regarding regarding the influence of the New York Times and Washington Post:

While the newspapers reach only a fraction of people compared to the television networks, he said radio and television producers rely heavily on their contents.

"The reason the Times, and to a lesser extent the Post, are so important, and they are, is because the TV and radio - all of the media - copy it sycophantically," he [John Stossel] said. "That's how bias at the Times becomes bias in other media."[14]

The NYT publishes 15 other newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune (based in Paris) and the Boston Globe. Examples of types of liberal bias utilized by the New York Times include:

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Controversies

  • C. L. Sulzberger in 1944 wrote a glowing review of Edgar Snow's People on Our Side and plugged Snow's earlier 1937 work, Red Star Over China, in which Snow stated, "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the Chinese Communists have been under the close guidance, if not positive direction, of the Communist International, which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the Russian Communist Party. In the final analysis this means that for better or worse, the policies of the Chinese Communists, like the Communists in every other country, have had to fall in line with, and usually subordinate themselves to, the broad strategic requirements of Soviet Russia, under the dictatorship of Stalin."[16] Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, the leaders given endorsement here as "people on our side," are the two biggest mass murderers in history.
  • In 2003, New York Times reporter Jayson Blair resigned after it was found that he had engaged in repeated plagiarism and deceit, copying articles from other newspapers and fabricating information. Blair was promoted and problems with his reporting were ignored due to the newspaper's adherence to affirmative action[17] Online NewsHour

See Also

References

  1. TimesWatch: Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
  2. Just Say It, Dan Okrent, National Review Online
  3. Infoplease.com: Top 100 Newspapers in the United States
  4. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=
  5. http://www.cnsnews.com/facts/2007/facts2007914.asp
  6. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=
  7. http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3014_0_2_0_C/
  8. http://www.cnsnews.com/facts/2007/facts2007914.asp
  9. http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A1442_0_2_0_C/
  10. http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3014_0_2_0_C/
  11. http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A1442_0_2_0_C/
  12. http://www.aim.org/special_report/A5366_0_8_0_C/
  13. http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3367_0_2_0_C/
  14. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200401/CUL20040128a.html
  15. New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty
  16. New York Times Weekly Book Review, September 10, 1944; Red Star Over China, Edgar Snow, New York, 1937, pg. 374. Quoted in While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It, John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, pgs. 73, 83 pdf.
  17. Jayson Blair: A Case Study of What Went Wrong at The New York Times
  18. Edit in question
  19. WikiScanner results for the NYT
  20. The NYTimes’ unspeakable violation
  21. Subsidizing Sedition, Investor's Business Daily Editorial, 9/13/2007.
  22. MoveOn's McCarthy moment, By Peter D. Feaver, Boston Globe, September 11, 2007.
  23. Time Gives Lefties a Hefty Discount for "Betray us" Ad, Charles Hurt, New York Post, September 13, 2007.

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