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Boston: We’re Number . . . Whatever In Segregated Schools!

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

From our Why the New York Times Is a Great (Local) Newspaper desk: Monumental takeout on New York’s public-school system in Sunday’s New York Times. Nut graf: In the broad resegregation of the nation’s schools that has transpired over recent … Continue reading →

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Not My Man Gottfried

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, he of the toe-curling Japanese tsunami jokes that lost him his job as the voice of the Aflac duck, mounts a defense in this Salon piece by Kerry Lauerman: It had been about a month since Gilbert Gottfried lobbed … Continue reading →

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Salon: NYT’s “journalistic obedience”

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Tuesday’s New York Times featured a Page One piece about CIA operative Raymond Davis, who allegedly shot and killed two Pakistanis last month, thereby exacerbating the uneasy alliance between Pakistan and the U.S. Problem is, according to Salon.com, the Times sat … Continue reading →

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