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This blog post soliciting terrorism attack ideas by best-selling author/economist Steven Levitt at the NYTimes yesterday has caused quite a stir:

Inspired by an article about TSA restrictions, Levitt muses about terror plot possibilities: “Hearing about these rules got me thinking about what I would do to maximize terror if I were a terrorist with limited [...]

The old Gray Lady is shrinking.

“Two levels above junk.”

Wearing an American flag: Not OK. Donating to a White-Flag Democrat: A-OK!

Here’s the Drudge-hyped headline of a morale-undermining NYTimes article just in time for the Memorial Day holiday:

Doubts Grow as G.I.’s in Iraq Find Allies in Enemy Ranks

NYTimes reporter Michael Kamber reports from Baghdad on a story that’s not news–militia infiltration of some of the Iraq security forces being trained by American troops (we noted the [...]

NYTimes’ hypocrisy exposed again.

From their own shareholders (via Bloomberg News; hat tip: Daniel G):
New York Times Co. shareholders, led by Morgan Stanley, withheld 42 percent of their votes from directors to protest the Sulzberger family’s control over the company.
About 52.5 million of the 124.2 million shares voted declined to support the re-election of directors, New York Times spokeswoman [...]

The NYTimes has already posted its lead editorial for tomorrow. Not that you need to read it to know what they’ve already concluded:
Yesterday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech — the worst in American history — is another horrifying reminder that some of the gravest dangers Americans face come from killers at home armed with guns [...]

…for victimizing and demonzing the Duke lacrosse players? How about a front-page apology?
Andrea Peyser at the NYPost excoriates “all the lies fit to print.”
Worst of all, this story so neatly fit the radical agenda of our “newspaper of record,” The New York Times, that the paper disgustingly advanced the hoax on its front page, [...]

Before Bryan Preston and I embedded at FOB Justice, we had to read and agree to a clear set of ground rules, including this one:

Apparently, the NYTimes didn’t think the rules applied to them. Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle blew the whistle on an appalling violation of those rules by Times reporters, who posted a photograph [...]

Before she left, Michelle put up a “corrections” post in which she noted in passing,
Now, if only TPM and the fevered left-wing blogosphere would hold, say, the New York Times–has anyone seen a correction yet for the Carmen Climaco debacle?–as accountable for its errors as the rest of us.
Michelle blogged, Vented, and wrote a column [...]

Save Barney
I’ve had my criticisms of NYTimes ombudsman Byron Calame, but his mission is a difficult one–and he has earned my respect with two columns taking the paper to task for its flawed abortion in El Salvador magazine cover story and for belatedly, if tepidly, admitting the paper’s reckless and wrong-headed decision to blab about [...]

To express concerns to the New York Times:
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman & Publisher:
publisher@nytimes.com
Scott H. Heekin-Canedy, President, General Manager
president@nytimes.com
See the full decision of the court in the Climaco case (in Spanish):
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/061128a.html
See the New York Times article by Jack Hitt:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/magazine/09abortion.html?_…
See the IPAS campaign to free Climaco
http://www.ipas.org/english/about/support_ipas/carmen.asp
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/34576/
http://audio.theworld.org/wma.php?id=04074
NYT Ombudsman: Times fumbled El Salvador abortion/murder story
posted at 9:03 pm on [...]

So, this is the big NYTimes story that was being hyped tonight: “U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide:”
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who [...]

***bumping to the top***
Meant to get to this earlier, but the newspaper of wreckage is at it again–publishing illegally leaked classified information about the war in yet another transparent effort to sway the election.
The article title: “Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos.”
After blabbing about the classified info revelaed in the article [...]

NYTimes ombudsman Byron Calame: (Not) looking out for you

A few days ago, I asked NYTimes public editor Byron Calame to explain exactly what he meant when he complained about the Bush administration’s “vicious criticism” of the newspaper’s reckless decision to expose a top-secret terrorist banking data surveillance program. I received a response this afternoon. You [...]

I love how the always oh-so-sensitive New York Times has no problem throwing my ethnicity into an attack, when my ethnicity has nothing at all to do with the subject (the jihad vs. anti-jihad war at YouTube). Of course, if you visited NYTimes writer Virginia Heffernan’s insipid blog to look at the petty swipes, you [...]

Anonymous blabbers and their stenographers at the NYTimes are at it again:
The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with [...]

The New Old York Times discovers the month-old Send-A-Brick project! (Have you sent yours yet?)
Prediction: Next, the Behind-The-Times will break the “news” of the month-old toilet brush campaign in L.A.

What’s wrong with this picture? (Click on it to expand.)

Thomas Lifson points out the obvious. (Hat tip: Lucianne.)
More from Jeff Taylor and FR.
Looks like the Times wants to secure its position as 2006 Idiotarian of the Year early.
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The only thing that would have made this staged news better: A canoe.

Intense reaction to the N.Y. Times’ journalistic dumpster diving into the sealed adoption records of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ two young children continues to pour in. Here’s a sample of the letters I’m getting. Won’t it be interesting to see whether the Times letters page bothers to print as many?
From Reader Jeff K:
I’m sure [...]

Well, now we know why the NYTimes hasn’t bothered to cover Air Enron/Air Scamerica. They’re too preoccupied with prying into the adoption records of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ young children, according to the Drudge Report.
For God’s sake.
Jeff Goldstein has a list of what’s next on the NYTimes’ dirt-digging agenda.
4: Can Judge Roberts account for [...]

“Upholding the journalistic integrity of The New York Times requires a lot of care.”
Read (snort) the (snort) whole (snort) thing (snort).

John Hinderaker at Power Line and Tom Maguire at Just One Minute break it down for you.

The New York Times reports that “cancer is a uniquely frightening disease.” Come again?

…about restoring its credibility as a reliable source of news?
Righty blogger/veteran journalist Mark Tapscott takes a closer look at the paper’s “Credibility Committee” report (sorry, the name is so snort-worthy) and at exec editor Bill Keller’s response, and actually has some good things to say about the ailing Gray Lady.
If the paper’s editors really wanted [...]

Tom Maguire of JustOneMinute wants to know why the New York Times hasn’t reported on the anti-Israel, anti-semitic comments made at a recent Democratic event hosted by John Conyers:
Can it be that anti-semitic pamphlets being distributed inside DNC headquarters during a DNC event is not of interest to Times readers? Even though it prompts a [...]

Check out the New York Times‘ bleeding heart profile of military deserters. They’ve coined a new term for abandoning a soldier’s sworn duty:
Un-volunteering.
Gag.