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Tag Archives: New York Times
Barack Caramba!
The jury is no longer out on Team Obama. Which means the verdict is in: So sure-handed at campaigning, so ham-handed at governing. As Peggy Noonan would say: Paging Jimmy Carter. Paging former Pres. Jimmy Carter. Exhibits A and B … Continue reading
Globel Waning
Just gotta ask if the Boston Globe is composing its front page according to the actual news, or to Globe bylines? Case in point: Page One of yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe. No quibble here with the two David Ortiz stories … Continue reading
Gone Fishin’: What I Missed
I know I’m late to the party on this – and I haven’t seen any of the commentary about it, so I’m probably Johnny Redundant – but what the hell was the New York Times thinking when it ran this … Continue reading
Why America Needs Daily Newspapers
Check out this heart-wrenching report in Sunday’s New York Times about suicides among Iraq war veterans, which are accelerating at breakneck speed. The number of suicides reported by the Army has risen to the highest level since record-keeping began three … Continue reading
Is the Times Guilty of Wiki-pediment?
The soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture saga of New York Times reporter David Rohde – who was kidnapped, along with his translator, by the Taliban last November and escaped, along with his translator, last Saturday – has raised some Big J journalism questions about the … Continue reading
Gay Old Times at the New York Times
At least twice in the past month the New York Times has published stories with the basic theme, The American Public Is Way Out in Front of Politicians on Gay Rights. At the end of May there was Matt Bai’s … Continue reading
Times Report Lacks MySpice
Social networking giant MySpace is hardly going Friendster, but it does have its problems. Facebook is currently kicking its boot-up, reportedly drawing more monthly visitors than MySpace, which also is experiencing losses in page views and revenues. So what looked … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider 