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The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper published in New York City and distributed worldwide. It was first published in 1851, and is often referred to as the Old Grey Lady. It is the third most widely circulated newspaper in the United States behind and The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.[1]

The New York Times is generally thought to promote a liberal point of view.[2][3] This was recently acknowledged by Arthur Brisbane, the departing public editor at the New York Times:

  • The "public editor" of the New York Times accused his employers of harboring progressive bias on topics like gay marriage and the occupy movement. [1]

Its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has denied this, claiming instead that the paper 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, citing the example of its coverage of homosexual marriage.[5]

Conservative organizations claim that the Times promotes the homosexual agenda, because it employs homosexuals and wins praise from homosexual groups. In 2001 Richard Berke, the Times' national political correspondent, revealed that "on any given day, three-fourths of those attending the daily meeting where it is decided what will be on the front page of the Times, are likely to be 'not-so-closeted' homosexuals." [6] In 2004, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gave the New York Times an award for "Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage", specifically citing journalist Frank Rich's article attacking President Ronald Reagan's record on AIDS.[7]

In 2008, ABC journalist John Stossel claimed: "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. That's how bias at the Times becomes bias in other media."[8]

Examples of types of liberal bias utilized by the New York Times include:

As further reflection of the newspaper's liberal bias, it has been awarded the most Pulitzer Prizes of any newspaper.[9]

The NYT publishes 18 other newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune (based in Paris) and The Boston Globe. The parent company has suffered repeated financial crises in recent years.

Controversies

Soviet crimes against humanity

Genocide victims
Main article: Holodomor

Evil Empire

  • When on March 8, 1983 Ronald Regan called the Soviet Union where people were routinely sent to Gulags an “Evil Empire”, a prominent liberal intellectual Anthony Lewis of the New York Times commented two days later that the speech was “primitive...simplistic theology” and "a mirror image of crude Soviet rhetoric". But when news of the speech reached Natan Sharansky, confined to an eight-by-ten foot cell on the Siberian border, the reaction was different: “Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan’s ‘provocation’ quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth — a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us.”[11]
  • In 2003, 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. [12]

War on Terror

  • The New York Times is known to defend America's enemies, discount terrorist acts or present stories as not to offend Muslim feelings. As with the case of American students who carried out suicide bombings in Somalia. In the NYT article "A Call to Jihad, Answered in America," the issue was a “crisis of belonging,” “They want to belong, but who do they belong to?” Then the author states that these jihadist were “born-agains” or “fundis,” not how the rest of America describes Islamic fascism. [17]

Coverage of the Military

Like everything else liberal, supporting America's fighting men and women is a burden for the paper. If it is a sensitive matter that would endanger the lives of our troops, they shrug the concerns off and post photos of American troops abusing prisoners in Iraq. In a liberal 'cause for concern', a New York Times repoter was kidnapped in Afghanistan by the Taliban, December 2008. The Times colluded with all the news organizations to keep it secret, not to endanger the reporter. [18]

The Associated Press and most other Western news outlets respected a request from the Times to not report on the abductions because the publicity could negatively affect hostage rescue efforts and imperil Rohde's life.

See Also

References

  1. http://accessabc.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/the-top-u-s-newspapers-for-march-2012/
  2. TimesWatch: Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
  3. Just Say It, Dan Okrent, National Review Online
  4. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=
  5. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=
  6. http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2001/23.html
  7. http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/gay-lobby-honors-new-york-times/
  8. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/abcs-stossel-rips-network-hostility-conservatives
  9. Totaling at least 106.
  10. New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty
  11. Fr. George Rutler. Recollections of Reagan. Pewsitter.com. “Many of our cultural elite were uncomfortable when on March 8, 1983 he called the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire.” Anthony Lewis of the New York Times said the speech was “primitive...simplistic theology” and Henry Steele Commager of Columbia University called it “the worst speech ever given by an American president.” But when news of the speech reached Natan Sharansky, confined to an eight-by-ten foot cell on the Siberian border, the reaction was different: “Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan’s ‘provocation’ quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth — a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us.””
  12. Jayson Blair: A Case Study of What Went Wrong at The New York Times
  13. The NYTimes’ unspeakable violation
  14. Subsidizing Sedition, Investor's Business Daily Editorial, 9/13/2007.
  15. MoveOn's McCarthy moment, By Peter D. Feaver, Boston Globe, September 11, 2007.
  16. Time Gives Lefties a Hefty Discount for "Betray us" Ad, Charles Hurt, New York Post, September 13, 2007.
  17. A Call to Jihad, Answered in America New York Times July 11, 2009
  18. New York Times Reporter Held Hostage by Taliban in Afghanistan Escapes Fox News, June 20 2009

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