Posts about NY Times as of June 19, 2009

The New York Times ran a fairly positive article this week on the “outpouring of fashions aimed at trend-driven, … York Times photograph of Target’s new Pure Energy Plus line?Seriously?  A grocery freezer aisle?  A plus-size model holding a bag of food?  Oh, how very original.  The NY Times didn’t have to tap

Thursday’s NY Times has an amazing story about Curtis Brooks, a self-described “eviction specialist.” The Times reports on the allegation that Brooks has been forging documents on behalf of a non-existent lawyer to collect fees from landlords to evict people. Like I said, it’

By Linda The Fiancé and I have talked about how many kids we want, and what names we’ll call them … more fun to think up than boy names. But according to a recent NY Times article, Asian couples living … . And we all know that many Asian cultures prefer male children to female. But I had no idea the bias toward male

-By John Armor One of Mark Twain’s well-known quotes is this: “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics … a discussion with nothing but hard, provable facts. The New York Times demonstrated that fact today … .” The bias of the writers and editors appears here, since Sotomayor was at that time litigating

It has been a tough decade for the venerable New York Times … . To be sure, the Times has been buffeted by market forces beyond its control, but its problems … , the majority shareholder, as wannabe owners circle the Gray Lady like so many vultures. The Times won

Headlines from DemocracyNow.org , a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. CIA: Keep Documents from Bush Era Sealed The Obama administration is urging a federal judge to block the release of certain Bush-era

There are three basic inputs to the price of some thing:1. Level of Aggregate Supply2. Level of Aggregate Demand3. Relative Value of the Medium of ExchangeLet’s consider supply and demand first, since they are the most intuitively obvious.The market presents an overall demand, and within that demand for individual products in particular

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Roeder Claims Further Anti-Clinic Violence Is Planned Alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller Scott Roeder claims that further violence against abortion providers and clinics has been planned, the Mail Online reports: ‘I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal,

Roeder Claims Further Anti-Clinic Violence Is Planned Alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller Scott Roeder claims that further violence against abortion providers and clinics has been planned, the Mail Online reports: ‘I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal,

I have always believed that, whether dealing with local community issues or with issues of national import, … York Times, in letters from regular citizens, there it was, clear as day, the “deep need to set … . a white man. The other letters are reactions by readers to an earlier Times article by Neil A. Lewis

Whether Obama knows it or not, his decline has already begun: domestically he overreached and internationally his naivete has already begun to erode American interests. Obama’s popularity has already begun to slip with his disapproval rating matching his approval rating

Whether Obama knows it or not, his decline has already begun: domestically he overreached and internationally his naivete has already begun to erode American interests. Obama’s popularity has already begun to slip with his disapproval rating matching his approval rating

  Introduction An Investigative Report on cyber-stalking at Alfred College In 2007, when I first spoke to Dr. Uma Gupta about writing an investigative piece about her experience as the target of cyber-predators during her Presidency at Alfred State College from 2003 -2006, my creative juices immediately began flowing as Dr

She’s tough, tenacious, smart and demonstrated a willingness to take the Government to task … has written and spoke many times about her identity as a Puerto Rican and the “shock” she and others … , discrimination or the bias of stereotypes.  She has taken strong anti-Government positions in several

By Rowan Wolf This article is a follow up to Blind Justice? The Argument Over Judge Sotomayor The charge of “identity politics” has come up in relation to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. It has been an ugly attack with claims of Sotomayor’s racism, belonging to the Hispanic version of the KKK,

Posted by Steve Benen, Washington Monthly at 9:55 AM on June 4, 2009 … for the NY Times and GE and the Washington Post to go out of business. Maybe the crazy tilt to the right … . This dynamic produces “a deep and largely unconscious conservative bias in the media’s

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all the interviews I’ve been fortunate enough to do with my fellow personal finance bloggers, but my conversation with the Weakonomist is one that could easily have spilled over into two, simply because the Weakonomist has so much to say about the world of finance and economics (as his name suggests)

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times IN FOCUS: STATS In Focus: Stats Addressing Muslims, Obama Pushes Mideast Peace: In opening a bold overture to the Islamic