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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 [...]

***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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. *** 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: [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

I was going to respond in detail to this New York Times article about the FEC’s potential regulation of blogs, but I see that Ed Morrissey has beat me to it. Several Democratic FEC Commissioners are quoted in the article. They basically say that bloggers have nothing to worry about. What a relief! But hold [...]

It’s good to see the New York Times op-ed page correct something as important as this. Now maybe they can turn their attention away from Michael Jackson lyrics and concentrate on some of the more serious errors that have appeared on their page.

N.Y. Post columnist Steve Dunleavy asks an excellent question: WHERE’S THE TIMES WHEN COPS ARE CLEARED? Good read.

Wizbang links to a brutal takedown of N.Y. Times reporter Somini Sengupta’s highly publicized report on “Baby 81,” an infant who survived the tsunami disaster and was allegedly claimed by as many as eight sets of parents. The debunkers of the story are not a conservative media watchdog, but Lanka Business Online, a Sri Lankan [...]

Hands down, it was the Anheuser-Busch ad honoring our military. Simple, elegant, inspired, and inspiring. Watch it here. Reminded me of this soldier’s homecoming and this soldier’s homecoming and these soldiers’ homecoming experiences. The ad says it all: Thank you. Update: The New York Times can’t resist mocking the Anheuser-Busch ad. Here’s what NYT reporter [...]

Accuracy in Media compares the state-controlled Ukrainian media with the American propaganda organ otherwise known as the New York Times: On November 26, the Ukrainian state-controlled media suddenly did an historic about-face. Journalists acknowledged they had broadcast propaganda and lies about the election favorable to the government-approved candidate. They apologized and pledged full independence. Unlike [...]

So say nine of the New York Times‘ own employees, who have filed a lawsuit against the paper charging they were subjected to racial and religious discrimination at the paper’s Edison, N.J., printing plant. According to The Jewish Times, the suit includes complaints that supervisors aimed racial and religious epithets at employees ? or ignored [...]

The New York Times editorial board is happy because cardiologists are paying attention to racial differences in responses to pharmacological treatments. The Times encourages the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug aimed at a single racial group–something the FDA has never done before. Fair enough. Naturally, the Times can’t leave its readers [...]

The NY Times weighs in on the flu shot shortage in its lead editorial this morning (“An Influenza Vaccine Debacle“). It is the most shallow editorial I’ve read in months. After devoting several paragraphs to the FDA’s failure to prevent contamination at Chiron’s Liverpool plant, the editorial finally gets to the root problem: Underlying this [...]

Andrew McCarthy smacks down the New York Times editorial board’s anti-Patriot Act pablum. Here’s a tiny sample: It boggles the mind how little the Times and its 9/10 allies have absorbed about the perilous realities of our 9/11 era. How irrationally circular, how suicidal, is their view of how we should confront these challenges. Or, [...]

In case you missed it, the New York Times Book Review finally got around to slamming Unfit for Command. Two quick comments–one about the reviewer and one about the book review section: 1) The reviewer is Susannah Meadows, who is covering the Kerry campaign for Newsweek. In the second paragraph of her screed against the [...]

The Post wins hands down. Update: Ace of Spades, one of my must-reads every day, has much more on the Times’s reporter Philip Shenon. Unbelievable.

The New York Times now acknowledges that what happened in Beslan over the weekend was a “terrorist attack.” This is progress. Still no mention, however, of the perpetrators’ religion.

Take a look at how this front-page New York Times article describes the perpetrators of the siege in Beslan. Notice anything? The killers are called “guerrillas” and “fighters” and “armed captors” but not “terrorists.” At one point the article grudgingly refers to these savage murderers as “people that Mr. Putin calls terrorists.” In more than [...]

Remember that awful New York Times piece about abortion activist Amy Richards’ decision to “eliminate” two of her unborn children through “selective reduction?” Well, the New York Sun got on the case and questioned the paper’s failure to disclose Richards’ line of work. Jacob Gershman reports: Ooops. Editors at the New York Times Magazine say [...]