A welcome message for the NYT’s new “opinion media monitor”
Pity the New York Times.
Even when the Fishwrap of Record is admitting how out of touch it is, its editors still can’t get the story right.
Hapless ombudsman Clark Hoyt writes in his Sunday column that his paper was guilty of unnecessarily politicizing a legitimate breaking story and suffering “slow reflexes:”
ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had severed its ties to Acorn, the community organizing group. Robert Groves, the census director, was quoted as saying that Acorn, one of thousands of unpaid organizations promoting the 2010 census, had become “a distraction.”
What the article didn’t say — but what followers of Fox News and conservative commentators already knew — was that a video sting had caught Acorn workers counseling a bogus prostitute and pimp on how to set up a brothel staffed by under-age girls, avoid detection and cheat on taxes. The young woman in streetwalker’s clothes and her companion were actually undercover conservative activists with a hidden camera.
It was an intriguing story: employees of a controversial outfit, long criticized by Republicans as corrupt, appearing to engage in outrageous, if not illegal, behavior. An Acorn worker in Baltimore was shown telling the “prostitute” that she could describe herself to tax authorities as an “independent artist” and claim 15-year-old prostitutes, supposedly illegal immigrants, as dependents.
But for days, as more videos were posted and government authorities rushed to distance themselves from Acorn, The Times stood still. Its slow reflexes — closely following its slow response to a controversy that forced the resignation of Van Jones, a White House adviser — suggested that it has trouble dealing with stories arising from the polemical world of talk radio, cable television and partisan blogs. Some stories, lacking facts, never catch fire. But others do, and a newspaper like The Times needs to be alert to them or wind up looking clueless or, worse, partisan itself.
Or both.
Some editors told me they were not immediately aware of the Acorn videos on Fox, YouTube and a new conservative Web site called BigGovernment.com. When the Senate voted to cut off all federal funds to Acorn, there was not a word in the newspaper or on its Web site. When the New York City Council froze all its funding for Acorn and the Brooklyn district attorney opened a criminal investigation, there was still nothing.
…Finally, on Sept. 16, nearly a week after the first video was posted, The Times took note of the controversy, under the headline, “Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn, Favored Foe.” The article said that conservatives hoped to weaken the Obama administration by attacking its allies and appointees they viewed as leftist. The conservatives thought they had a “winning formula,” the article said, mobilizing people “to dig up dirt,” then trumpeting it on talk radio and television.
By stressing the politics, the article irritated more readers. “A suspicious person might see an attempt to deflect criticism of Acorn by highlighting how those pesky conservatives are at it again,” said Albert Smith of Chatham, N.J.
I thought politics was emphasized too much, at the expense of questions about an organization whose employees in city after city participated in outlandish conversations about illegal and immoral activities. (Acorn suggested some videos were doctored but fired or suspended many of the employees.)
So, get this: The Times has now assigned an anonymous editor to “monitor opinion media” so the effete journalists don’t get caught flat-footed again. But they won’t identify the editor because they don’t him or her getting e-mails from the public (heaven forfend) and they don’t want him or her getting feedback, criticism, or tips from the blogosphere (the MSM must be shielded from the angry mob). Snort:
Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was “slow off the mark,” and blamed “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” She and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person “a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere.”
Despite what the critics think, Abramson said the problem was not liberal bias.
“Not liberal bias,” eh? Then how to explain the institutional refusal of the Times — Hoyt included — to address directly and openly the paper’s own complicity in covering up the ACORN story before Election Day?
For the benefit of the Times’ anonymous Opinion Media Monitor, whoever you are, here is what your paper’s belated coverage of ACORN is still missing — reprinted from my Sept. 16 blog post, “What’s missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN.” I’m going to make your job easier by reprinting the entire post so you don’t have to spend any precious energy clicking on the link:
The Fishwrap of Record has finally seen fit to tell its readers about the latest ACORN scandals (the San Bernardino tapes, which don’t get a mention, are beyond belief). True to form, the New York Times commits grievous sins of omission that whitewash the paper’s own role in deliberately covering up ACORN’s illicit activities before Election Day last November.
The Times article by Scott Shane casts the ACORN stings as a purely partisan game: “Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn, Favored Foe.”
The lead sentence paints any investigative journalism of ACORN’s long history of taxpayer abuses and shady business and campaign finance practices as opportunistic attacks on Barack Obama: “For months during last year’s presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn, which had done some work for the campaign.”
But it was a then-liberal whistleblower Anita MonCrief, formerly of ACORN affiliate Project Vote, who worked extensively with New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom last year on several investigative pieces exposing the financial shenanigans in the ACORN web of money-shuffling, non-profit, tax-exempt affiliates. Strom called MonCrief a “gold mine” in July 2008. One of the last stories Strom wrote — blowing the whistle on an internal report raising red flags about ACORN’s massive potential violations of federal law– appeared in the Times on October 21, 2008:
An internal report by a lawyer for the community organizing group Acorn raises questions about whether the web of relationships among its 174 affiliates may have led to violations of federal laws.
The group, formally known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has been in the news over accusations that it is involved in voter registration fraud, charges it says are overblown and politically motivated.
Republicans have tried to make an issue of Senator Barack Obama’s ties to the group, which he represented in a lawsuit in 1995. The Obama campaign has denied any connection with Acorn’s voter registration drives.
The June 18 report, written by Elizabeth Kingsley, a Washington lawyer, spells out her concerns about potentially improper use of charitable dollars for political purposes; money transfers among the affiliates; and potential conflicts created by employees working for multiple affiliates, among other things.
It also offers a different account of the embezzlement of almost $1 million by the brother of Acorn’s founder, Wade Rathke, than the one the organization gave in July, when word of the theft became public.
“A full analysis of potential liability will require consultation with a knowledgeable white-collar criminal attorney,” Ms. Kingsley wrote of the embezzlement, which occurred in 2000 but was not disclosed until this summer.
In a telephone interview on Monday, Ms. Kingsley and Bertha Lewis, Acorn’s top executive, said the group had begun addressing the concerns raised in the report.
“Has everything been done yet? No,” Ms. Lewis said. “We’ve been at this for three months, and we have taken everything she said in the report very seriously. It’s a huge undertaking.”
Over the weekend, Ms. Kingsley said, the national board adopted several good-governance policies, like appointing an audit committee for the first time.
Disclosure of her report, which was distributed to Acorn and 10 affiliates, increases pressure on the organization at a particularly troublesome time. Besides the inquiries into its voter registration efforts, Acorn faces demands for back taxes by the Internal Revenue Service and various state tax authorities. At the same time, foundations that have backed Acorn are withholding support.
Ms. Kingsley’s concerns about the way Acorn affiliates work together could fuel the controversy over Acorn’s voter registration efforts, which are largely underwritten by an affiliated charity, Project Vote. Project Vote hires Acorn to do voter registration work on its behalf, and the two groups say they have registered 1.3 million voters this year.
As a federally tax-exempt charity, Project Vote is subject to prohibitions on partisan political activity. But Acorn, which is a nonprofit membership corporation under Louisiana law, though subject to federal taxation, is not bound by the same restrictions.
“Project Vote and Acorn have a written agreement that specifies that all work is nonpartisan,” Michael Slater, Project Vote’s new executive director, wrote in answer to e-mailed questions about the relationship.
But Ms. Kingsley found that the tight relationship between Project Vote and Acorn made it impossible to document that Project Vote’s money had been used in a strictly nonpartisan manner. Until the embezzlement scandal broke last summer, Project Vote’s board was made up entirely of Acorn staff members and Acorn members.
Ms. Kingsley’s report raised concerns not only about a lack of documentation to demonstrate that no charitable money was used for political activities but also about which organization controlled strategic decisions.
As I reported in May (see here and here), multiple e-mail messages between Strom and MonCrief show that the Times reporter grasped the depth and breadth of the ACORN racket:
In an e-mail message to whistleblower MonCrief last summer, New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom told the truth: “The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what.”
By October 6, 2008, Strom had thrown in the towel in the wake of blistering phone conversations with the Obama campaign. She wrote:
“I’m calling a halt to my efforts. I just had two unpleasant calls with the Obama campaign, wherein the spokesman was screaming and yelling and cursing me, calling me a rightwing nut and a conspiracy theorist and everything else…I’d still like to get that file from you when you have a chance to send it. One of these days, the truth is going to come out.”
I uploaded the entire e-mail exchange here in PDF form. Be sure to go back and read or re-read them all.
Earth to NYTimes reporter Scott Shane: It wasn’t a right-wing partisan who wrote these words:
It was your fellow reporter Stephanie Strom.
Let me repeat what Strom said to make sure you didn’t miss that key paragraph:
“The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what — and for the charities like the housing orgs, that’s a problem. Charitable money cannot be spent on political activites. It’s a big no-no that can cost charitable organizations their exemptions.”
The files that Strom was planning to get from MonCrief (files that I have since obtained and reviewed) were spreadsheets of donors from Democrat campaigns — Obama, Clinton, Kerry — as well as from the Democratic National Committee that had been passed on to non-profit, tax-exempt, and supposedly non-partisan Project Vote. There were no Republican donor lists. MonCrief told Strom that the Clinton and Obama campaigns were in “constant contact” with Project Vote. A few weeks after I reported in August 2008 on how Obama hid an $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc,” Strom told MonCrief: “Am also onto the Obama connection, sadly. Would love the donor lists. As for helping the Repubs, they’re already onto this like white on rice. SIGH.”
But the damning story of coordinated corruption between Democrats and Project Vote never appeared. The Times suddenly “cut bait” — and the story never saw the light of day in the purported Paper of Record.
All of this information is readily available on the Internet, and MonCrief continues to expose ACORN’s tentacles and thuggery at her own blog here despite Project Vote’s litigious efforts to shut her down. News outlets including the Examiner and Fox News have relied on her whistle-blowing testimony and reporting for months — including her knowledge of ACORN’s Muscle for Money program & the H&R Block shakedown, and ACORN’s gala for Democrats in New York in June to celebrate its 39th anniversary.
Times readers, alas, will learn none of this from reading its story today about ACORN, which ends this way:
It was Acorn’s election activities that drew opponents’ attention last year, including registration cards filled out by Acorn workers in the name of Mickey Mouse and other imaginary voters. Republicans highlighted the fact that the Obama campaign had paid more than $800,000 to an Acorn affiliate for get-out-the-vote efforts.
I will end with a quote from Strom, who wrote in an e-mail on October 6, 2008:
“One of these days, the truth is going to come out.”
Indeed, nearly a year after Strom wrote those words, the full truth about the ACORN racket is finally coming to light. But it’s no thanks to the partisan news suppressors at the New York Times.
And you can quote me on that…or not.
I would have e-mailed all of this to the Times’ Opinion Media Monitor (OMM) myself, but there’s no way to get in touch with the paper’s In-Touched-Ness Czar because the editors want to protect the OMM from “excoriation in the blogosphere.”
No matter. You can hide, but you can’t run.
Welcome to the jungle.
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Bonus reading from the Times OMM:
10 Questions for ACORN’s ‘Independent’ Investigator
Census should cut SEIU ties because of ACORN, Kirk says
New York Times source (until just before Election Day 2008) Anita MonCrief
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It would appear that what they have a problem reporting on is anything that makes The Won look bad. They are so committed to this relationship that there is NOTHING they wouldn’t do to make sure it is a success. WE know they know it and nothing they say will change that opinion. There is a reason that the majority of the country find the oldstream leftwing media to be LIARS. They look at the name of the organization and pfft because they know what they are reading is a LIE. I welcome the day the NY Times is a footnote in history books and let us not for a moment allow that note to say they were the paper of record. They were nothing more than an organ of the left!
Calling Dr. Goebbels, please schedule the White House for the OMM-Czar interview.
As usual, Michelle you are the first up to bat on liberal CORRUPTION
As a tax paying American – THANK YOU!
“The Times has now assigned an anonymous editor to . . . . . But they won’t identify the editor because they don’t [want] him or her . . . . . . (the MSM must be shielded from the angry mob)”
Is it possible that the editor is anonymous because the angry mob are actually other editors? Or perhaps other employers?
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“By October 6, 2008, Strom had thrown in the towel in the wake of blistering phone conversations with the Obama campaign.”
and
“Hapless ombudsman Clark Hoyt writes . . . that his paper was guilty of unnecessarily politicizing a legitimate breaking story . . .“
Or maybe other editors, other employers and a few political types?
Lacking facts???? In the case of the “video sting” the FACTS were on tapes that were widely distributed. Actions of the Senate and House are reflected in the Congressional Record.
Looks like the NYT is being run by three monkeys that only see, hear and speak what THEY want you to know.
Wow! Just wow!
The first step to recovery is acknowledging the problem.
Seems like they are getting closer to that first step, but not quite yet.
Hey NYT, MM always has more class, cahones, etc., than do all you sorry loosers combined. Consider yourselves schooled.
Fish-wrap indeed. Not a word of negativity about Obama will ever see the presses at this rag.
One more hardcopy paper that is circling the drain. Buh-Bye!
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The advent of the death of journalism was obvious when the phony Dan Rather / Mary Mapes “story” on President Bush’s Air National Guard service appeared just before the 2004 election. They kept defending the forgeries for 3 weeks even after anyone could see the truth.
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Or when the Left Wing Media (aka American Pravda) kept trashing Sarah Palin while sweeping any bad news about Joe Biden and the Messiah under the rug during the 2008 campaigns.
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The credibility, “impartiality”, and accuracy of the New York Times (Slimes!) and the Washington (Com!)Post is only 1 percent better than that of Bagdad Bob as he put out his lies as the plaster dust from bomb near misses poured down on him and the chandeliers swung around with each explosion. And I’m betting on Bob pulling ahead of our “MSM” in the next week or so.
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The mantle of real investigative reporting and fair journalism now rests on Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other conservative bloggers and talk radio hosts. The “democrats” / liberals / socialists / statists / marxists / communists will have to silence these true journalists soon. And they are getting ready to use taxpayer (Our!) money to subsidize the dishonest print and network T.V. “news” (aka PROPAGANDA) outlets. I stopped reading and listening to their C**P 10 years ago.
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George Orwell described these losers well in his 1984 book. He was 25 years ahead of his time–it’s here now.
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John Bibb
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You’d have to be born yesterday to believe they didn’t know about these stories. It’s just more media malfeasance.. Or should I say malfeces?
How long before Obama appoints an Opinion Media Monitor Czar?
LOLOLOL @ Dan Lee #813149
Yeah, that would explain how the NYT is swirling down the drain…FLUUUSSHHHH!
Sorry, but I can’t resist. Is someone going to send The New York Times a Captain Renault Award for finally stumbling on the ACORN fiasco (which has been an ongoing saga) and declaring that its shocked that there’s a story worth covering?
The instances of laughable insincerity found throughout Hoyt’s article are unbelieveable.
WTF-my head is still shaking side-to-side as I have read this. These guys are nefariously incredible -the NYT-and I’ll bet they want a GM-style bailout, right?
I hope you and your family are feeling better with respect to your flu(?), Ms. Malkin.
The Times needs a news bailout by the Conservative blogosphere.
From Michelle’s post above:
Hoyt’s apparent response in the NYT article:
(emphasis added)
Sadly, I guess Mr. Hoyt doesn’t believe Michelle. I don’t believe him.
Then I guess BuckeyeSam must be part of the Angry Mob? Oh I think Mr. Hoyt believes, his truth is just not connected to anything messy such as facts-I believe. But that might make ME part of the Angry Mob I believe.
There are times on the road, generally at airports between flights, I have tried to read the NY Times–even their Sports section is a Politically Correct Facts Deficient waste of newsprint.
That’s our “Firecracker”!
Keep the pressure on Michelle.
Pray you are all doing better.
The wee weed up, formerly know as a newspaper.
Thanks again Michelle for exposing the complicitiy of the old grey whore’s devotion to the leftist agenda bent on this nation’s distruction. All I can think of after reading their out-of-touchness article is who are you going to believe? Us or your lying eyes and ears. Those pesky facts and the extensive pile of evidience concerning this issue are constantly getting in the way.
Uh huh. That’s what CBS’ “investigation” of Rathergate said, too. In both cases, the question arises: If the problem WAS liberal bias, how different would the situation appear than it does now?
It’s also amusing how the NYT is demanding the benefit of the doubt when so many in their employ are quick to ascribe opposition to Obama to racism.
The NYT is going to pay somebody to monitor “opinion media” (they just can’t bring themselves to say “conservative blogs”) when they should be paying somebody to ask the rest of their reporters what the hell they’re doing all day.
I love how the NYT somehow insinuates that the Census Bureau severing its ties with ACORN, or the House voting to defund ACORN, is a matter of “opinion” and as such provides them an excuse for missing the story.
My fish deserves more dignified storage than wrapping it in that paper.
We need and appreciate you, Michelle – a true journalist of integrity and intuition. Get well, stay well and God bless you and your family.
Fish gets its foul smell from the Times.
Thanks, Michelle, for reporting the truth.
Stephanie Strom, a Brenda Starr she ain’t.
“Gee whiz, they called me up and said bad things and made me cry. They said I was rightwing, me who has a Cynthia McKinney poster on my bedroom wall. Well the truth my come out, but it won’t be from me. A reporter can only take so much and mean phone calls from campaign workers is above my pay grade. They never learned us this in newspaper school.”
It is a brave new world out there!
Wasn’t The Won considering a bail out for the newspaper industry? I guess we know why. He wouldn’t want his propaganda division to fail.
I sure hope you didn’t actually pay for the paper, but instead found it left behind on one of the airport seats!
I have been enjoying watching the roaches scatter the past few weeks. Even the left-wing comedy shows are taking swipes at the left now. That is progress, since those shows are the only things many of our “informed” citizens ever watch. A newsflash for the lefties…
WE SURROUND YOU!
If the New York Times wants to “assign an editor to monitor opinion media” doesn’t that really mean that they’re assigning an editor to monitor themselves?
What do you expect from people who saw the 2 million or so regular working people who showed up in DC 9/12 to protest runaway government without a single arrest and leaving the place as clean as they found it and reported violence and racism? How much “in-tuned-ness” can you expect from people who make things up?
Costs less money to make up the news. Of course the money they don’t spend is more than offset by the loss of revenues as readers cancel their subscriptions. BTW, my phone has been ringing off the hook for the past week from people trying to get me to re-subscribe to the LA Times and Pasadena Star, two other obtuse newspapers lacking “in-tuned-ness”.
I remember when we cancelled the Minneapolis Star/Tribune a couple years ago. We kept getting phone calls from the paper. They kept offering better and better deals until finally I said they would have to PAY ME to subscribe. They finally gave up. Ocassionally a free paper will show up on my doorstep. I call them every time that happens and tell them I don’t want their paper on my step, free or not. If they don’t stop leaving it, I will consider it harrassment and get a restraining order. Honestly, you just can’t get away from the nutjobs no matter how hard you try!!
Wait a minute, the newspaper with the motto “All the news that’s fit to print” isn’t in tune with the news enough so they have to have an opinion editor? They weren’t “in-touchedness enough”?
Wow you have to wave the hypocrisy away with a fan.
Off topic…I just turned on Meet the Press and former Pres. Clinton is on there. He doesn’t look well to me. And, he is decidedly ill at ease! Seriously, he is really off his game. He talks like he is making it up as he goes along and he has to also remember all the past lies so he doesn’t get tripped up. I am not just imagining this. He is squirming. Even Clinton knows the jig is almost up!
happy, I turned on “Meet The Press” just in time to hear Bill say, “I can’t touch as many lives or as many things as when I was President…” I wonder if he was thinking of Monica when he said that.
Somebody call the waaaaaaaahmbulance … Stat!
The implied caveat to their motto is thusly: ‘if we don’t print it, it’s not news’. Boy, do they have egg on their faces now. They are in full on damage control and I am all out of popcorn.
In fairness, it may have been the regular liberal, head-in-the-sand clueless-ness.
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the late 90′s and my paper, the Virginian Pilot (Norfolk, VA Beach, et al) ran so many Molly Ivins’ opinion columns to so few Thomas Sowell’s that I searched online until I found townhall.com and The Drudge Report. I let my subscription lapse and haven’t looked back since. Thank you Molly Ivins and your overuse of the word “SHRUB.”
The opinion monitor could start with:
ACORN has been a known quantity among Democrats for a long time, the right has railed against their abuses for a long time.
After decades of progressive funding, protectionism and accusations of racism from the libs there’s no reason in this world that the left should escape the evil empire mantle that ACORN with liberal complicity have created, the left owns this.
After years of warnings, after years of attempts, it took just two enterprising young people to expose the criminal nature and societal damage being caused by ACORN and the collusion of the Democrats to support and even expand the criminality and damage directed at American society.
Alinsky liberal hate for America comes to your computer and TV screen.
Not holding my breath (not turning blue as a result).
For all we know, maybe the bailout is already ongoing and hasn’t been “discovered” yet. What about our government giving cash to Libya? Never heard about that until just the other day. I think that before the NYTimes exhales it’s last gasp, something will surface about aid from the government, direct or “indirect”. After all, I’m sure that Obama considers it “too big to fail”.
Another instance of the NYT doing too little too late.
And thank you, Obama for your overuse of the words “public option”. And for your overuse of the media. And for your overreach in trying to brainwash our children. Etc., etc. Overuse and overreaching is waking up the sleeping giant. The libs are so caught up in their radical idealogy, they don’t seem to notice us surrounding them and moving in. Clueless moonbats acting stupidly.
There in not just a liberal bias in that rag.
We watched ABC news with C. Gibson (Diane was filling in) the other night (we were bored). They did a report on PAC loopholes which allow politicians to use donations for personal use. They went after two politicians and called out their affiliation numerous times – REPUBLICAN…REPUBLICAN…REPUBLICAN…
Funny that when they “gave equal time” to the other side of the aisle they did not mention Harry Reid as being a democrat just “Majority Leader”. They also mentioned that over 400 politicians were taking advantage of the loophole but did not bother to break down the biggest abusers or their party affiliations. That, in my book, can only mean one thing; Democrats rule the roost in both cases.
In either case, there is a problem on both sides. Is it any wonder they are called “politicians”?
Politician: From Poly meaning many + Ticks meaning blood sucking pests + ian meaning belonging to.
That’s exactly right. This also demonstrates how hunkering down in your own echo chamber
breedsinbreeds stupidity. Why don’t they simply hire reporters and editors committed to following the facts in pursuit of the truth? If they can’t admit that they are engaged in agenda-based “journalism”, how will they ever reform themselves?The bloggers and web-based journalists like Michelle are light years ahead of the fishwrap media and America knows it.
The New York Times only hires reporters and editors who are well educated and already fully informed about what is and is not true. Only ignorant racist hicks need to search to find the truth.
Interestingly, they seem only to want to catch “bubbling controversies” they may have otherwise missed. Apparently they believe there are no legitimate stories they have missed, only controversies, ginned up by those crazy conservatives.
Even when they try to improve their performance, they do it wrong.
You can be sure, if there is a scandal, and party affiliation isn’t noted by the press, then it refers to a democrat. If it is a republican, they will be sure to bring out that important piece of information. I am very encouraged, however, by the comparison of the ratings between FOX News and the other media (Fringe media, as coined by Glenn Beck). More and more people are tuning into more fair and balanced reporting and the ratings show it. Yes, the entire liberally biased media is in big trouble. And they are incapable of changing. Sucks to be them.
Well, someone at the NYT didn’t get the memo.
If their lips are moving…
… and the Times’ tailspin continues …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
If Pinch and the NYT are looking to turn “government bailouts for print media” into their new business model, why on earth would they expose a fellow Obama/government handout recipient like ACORN?
Anyway, talk about dragging a news organization, kicking and screaming, towards one of the biggest democrat, scandal stories of the year (and that’s saying a lot.)
Pathetic.
Translation: “We can’t determine on our own whether a story is newsworthy. So we look to the source of a story to help us decide whether it merits the attention of the New York Times. If the story originated through a source that we consider to be hopelessly right-wing, that is a strong indicator that we should steadfastly ignore it, regardless of its actual content.”
So the New York Times can’t manage to pull its ostrich head out of the sand unless news is first broken by a reliable (read: left-wing) source. I hope its dwindling band of subscribers understand that the storied Gray Lady has been around so long that it’s developed a severe and apparently fatal case of political myopia.
As far as I’m concerned, its inevitable death can’t come soon enough.
Any resemblance between the NYT and REAL JOURNALISM is purely coincidental!!!
This is a problem common with liberal ideologues…this, plus a lack of ethical, or constitutional behavior.
NYT does identify this editor as OMM.
The coward behind the title “OMM” will maintain anonymity – lol – like the man behind the curtain in the land of Oz.
Well, Chris Matthews thinks his job is to help the president succeed. The NYT seems to agree that is the function of journalism.
the dems and their propagandists in the media spent 1/2 of 2007 and all of 2008 telling us we were in the worst economy since the 1930′s. now that they have made that prophesy come true, we hear nothing from these slugs except that obama saved the economy, and things are getting better. YO NYT, HOW’S THIS ECONOMY WORKING OUT FOR YOU? HOPIN FOR CHANGE YET?
All the news I need I get from Michelle and Matt (Malkin and Drudge). I wonder why the NYT can’t at least admit to using these two great sources. MD2
I don’t believe them. Part of the radical strategy is to play like they’re listening, then behind our backs, do what they want.
That’s why its so important for all of us, not just the Malkins, O’Keefes and the Giles of the world, to be vigilant and expose them where we can. The NYT has proven they won’t do it for us.
Where are we getting all this money that we’re sending overseas? Do other countries accept our worthless paper money? After all, we can print all day and all night but if China and Japan don’t buy our debt, aren’t we sending Monopoly money to them?
It is very interesting that MD and CA are lining up to use laws the “prohibit taking pictures of somewone without their knowledge and/or consent”
If this is allowed to go forward as an ACORN defense then the use of “security Cameras” anywhere, Photo Radar and any number of uses of the ubiquitous video and still camaras so much a part of today’s world is called into question.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
We are borrowing it and floating bonds to pay it off. Of course the interest that our government pays on the bonds comes from, where else, you and me. The taxpayers. It’s like a credit card junkee heading for bankruptcy. Our government is borrowing more and more but as long as our government can pay the interest on our 10 trillion (and increasing) debt, it just keeps on borrowing and ignoring the debt. So the debt gets bigger and bigger and BIGGER AND B I G G E R AND. . . . . .
The incredible thing is, these people actually get paid to be this miserably bad. If a truck driver were to drive as bad as these people ignore, suppress, slant or fail to investigate the news, he’d be arrested for reckless driving. It’s criminal how low the supposed profession of journalism has stooped these past decades.
No problem, Michelle. They can no longer hide, either. I just printed the whole thing above, and mailed it certified with return receipt to the NYT editor.
This way they have verse and chapter of what they didn’t cover before!
Fixed that for you.
Hilarious! Glad to see that the NYTimes has become what we all suspected: a comedy publication.
Do you get the feeling that even the dead fish will object to being wrapped in this odious publication due to the smell?
Didn’t Rohm “Dead Fish” Immanuel send some dead fish (ergo, his nickname by Sean Hannity) to an opponent of his? I wonder what newspaper he used for that task….. NYT?
The NYT is nothing but a paper for pretentious people. I met a friend at Starbucks yesterday and they sell it and people were sitting in the shop sipping their overpriced lattes and reading the NYT. I think the NYT should be sued for reckless reporting, it turned Californians into mindless fools who ruined the state. Sad thing is so many of them are now reading this rag in Phoenix and are going to do the same thing to Arizona since they ruined California through Pelosi and Feinstein worship and are looking for clone politicians in the state they chose to escape to when the California dream became too expensive through the liberal tax and steal policies. Sigh.
Seriously, I would not ruin a fantastic slab of swordfish wrapping it in that R.A.G.
I’d put it in a rinsed out doggie doo bag first.
In other words, Abramason and the other NYT crapweasels don’t keep up with the real news of the day.
And these people are supposed to be “the paper of record?”
BWAAAAHHHHH HA HA HA HA.
Hey, Jill, baby, this is me in flyovercountry LMAO at you.
This is a a rather amazing story. A NYT mea culpa of all things. I wonder what the remaining liberal media will think of this confession? Could this be a road toward the revelation ( at least to them) that the newspaper, with its infestation of hyper-partisan liberals staffing it, IS really biased to the left afterall??? Perhaps their new anonymous employee should watch Fox News, and read both Drudge and this website, and he/she will be clued in quite well to what is really happening outside the NYT’s offices. Good grief!!!!!!!!
I wonder why Clark Hoyt won’t address the issue of the demonstrable factual errors in Roger Cohen’s columns. Only three months ago, Cohen called reports of Iranian nuclear weapons development “the mad fantasies of Bibi Netanyahu”. Now even Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton concede that the fanatical regime in Iran was caught secretly building a nuclear facility and lying about it. When will Hoyt correct Cohen’s factual errors? Then there was Cohen’s three column barrage about how Iranian Jews have complete freedom of worship and freedom of speech in Ahemedinejad’s Iran. No correction from Hoyt on that one either. Then there was Roger Cohen’s insistence that under Khameini, Iran is a cautious, pragmatic and quiet nation. When will Hoyt investigate that Cohen whopper?
The thing that makes Hoyt so disingenuous is- it indicates that either he’s lying or no NYT fossil media reporters follow conservative new media, or the ‘liberal’ counterparts, who attack them for discussing things like acorn.
So nobody at the Times ever even looks at, say, The Drudge Report? They’re not even curious?
Do they not have Mr Gore’s internets there? That’s why they won’t give their opinion monitor’s email address- they don’t have email!
We’ll have to wire them a telegram.
There is nothing new here. Move along. The NYT and other MSM have been in the tank for liberals for so long and they are so inbred that they don’t realize that they aren’t objective. This is in the same way that a fish doesn’t know that it’s wet. These so called journalists don’t know any other way to report the news. And people are tired of it.
Though Fox news is said to cater to the far right, Independents and many watch it, and their number of viewers increase daily. This is proven by the fact that they have had the conservative audience for years, yet their audience continues to grow. The NYT’s days are numbered. The Feds can bail them out, but the problem is that no one will be reading.
Great job Michelle.
I pass the Times building twice a day. I can see clearly into the lower floors… Their mailing address says they’re on the 6th FL. I don’t know if the NYT uses the floors below 6, but the place is a ghost town in the morning and at night. I’ve yet to see a human being at work.
Based on the tripe they produce, this isn’t surprising.
Supreme Being (aka NYT): I should do something very extroverted and vengeful to you. Honestly, I’m too tired. So, I think I’ll transfer you to the undergrowth department, brackens, more shrubs, that sort of thing… with a 19% cut in salary, backdated to the beginning of time.
Randall (aka OMM): Oh, thank you, sir.
Supreme Being: Yes, well, I am the nice one.
Too late.