Showing posts with label New York Times. Show all posts
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Friday, December 2, 2016

Sorry, New York Times, But ‘Smart Guns’ Are A Dumb Idea

December 02, 2016 But ‘Smart Guns’ Are A Dumb Idea , New York Times 0 Comments


By The Federalist, Nov. 30, 2016 

The New York Times has a problem with guns. The problem is both personal and professional, namely: the fellows who run the Times do not know all that much about guns, and they do not care to take any steps to learn about them.

The problem manifests itself heterogeneously: they cannot seem to get guns right no matter how they approach them. They do not understand concealed carry laws. They do not understand gun statistics. They do not understand assault weapons bans. They do not understand the rules of NRA conventions. They do not understand Australia’s gun control laws. They do not understand concealed carry demographics.

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Clinton Campaign Complains Of' 'Egregious' New York Times Reporting Errors

Clinton Campaign Complains Of' 'Egregious' New York Times Reporting Errors

July 31, 2015 Clinton Campaign , Complains 0 Comments

Clinton Campaign Complains Of' 'Egregious' New York Times Reporting Errors

By Dylan Byers, July 30, 2015 Politico

The Hillary Clinton campaign sent a nearly 2,000-word letter to the executive editor of The New York Times this week expressing "grave concern" with a recent and controversial report relating to the former Secretary of State's private email account.

"We remain perplexed by the Times’ slowness to acknowledge its errors after the fact, and some of the shaky justifications that Times’ editors have made," Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote in the letter to Dean Baquet, which the campaign forwarded to the On Media blog late Thursday night.

"I feel obliged to put into context just how egregious an error this story was," Palmieri continued. "The New York Times is arguably the most important news outlet in the world and it rushed to put an erroneous story on the front page charging that a major candidate for President of the United States was the target of a criminal referral to federal law enforcement. Literally hundreds of outlets followed your story, creating a firestorm that had a deep impact that cannot be unwound. This problem was compounded by the fact that the Times took an inexplicable, let alone indefensible, delay in correcting the story and removing 'criminal' from the headline and text of the story."

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Friday, July 24, 2015

NYT Changes Story After Hillary's Campaign Complain

NYT Changes Story After Hillary's Campaign Complain

July 24, 2015 Alters , Campaign Complain 0 Comments

New York Times Alters Clinton Email Story

By Dylan Byers, July 24, 2015 Politico

The New York Times made small but significant changes to an exclusive report about a potential criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's State Department email account late Thursday night, but provided no notification of or explanation for of the changes.

The paper initially reported that two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation "into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state."

That clause, which cast Clinton as the target of the potential criminal probe, was later changed: the inspectors general now were asking for an inquiry "into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state."

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

"Cruz's Campaign... Accusing The Times Of Lying"

"Cruz's Campaign... Accusing The Times Of Lying"

July 14, 2015 A Time for Truth , Best-Seller List 0 Comments

Amazon: 'No Evidence' Of Bulk Sales For Cruz Book

By Dylan Byers, July 13, 2015 Politico

The New York Times' refusal to put Ted Cruz's memoir on its best-seller list is once again being called into question — this time by Amazon, the largest Internet retailer in the country.

On Sunday, an Amazon spokesperson told the On Media blog that the company's sales data showed no evidence of unusual bulk purchase activity for the Texas senator's memoir, casting further doubt on the Times' claim that the book — "A Time for Truth" — had been omitted from its list because sales had been driven by "strategic bulk purchases."

"As of yesterday, 'A Time for Truth' was the number 13 best-selling book, and there is no evidence of unusual bulk purchase activity in our sales data," Sarah Gelman, Amazon's director of press relations, said in an email.

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Friday, July 10, 2015

SOMEBODY'S Lying!

SOMEBODY'S Lying!

July 10, 2015 Bestseller List , ed Cruz 0 Comments

HarperCollins Refutes New York Times Claim That Ted Cruz Tried To Game Bestseller List

By McKay Coppins, July, 10, 2015, BuzzFeed

Publishing giant HarperCollins is publicly pushing back against the New York Times’ claim that Ted Cruz’s new book, A Time For Truth, was disqualified from its bestseller list because sales were limited to “strategic bulk purchases.”
In a statement provided to BuzzFeed News, HarperCollins publicity director Tina Andreadis said the company looked into the matter and “found no evidence of bulk orders or sales through any retailer or organization.”
It is common practice for politicians to try to game the Times’ prestigious bestseller list by having their campaigns or political action committees buy up thousands of copies of their books. When Cruz’s book was left off the list this week despite outselling many of the entries that did make it, the paper’s spokesperson justified the omission by telling Politico they found an “overwhelming preponderance of evidence” that the sales numbers were being padded by bulk purchases.
By publicly refuting the Times’ claim, HarperCollins is taking on one of the most influential forces in the publishing industry — an exceedingly rare move for any large publisher.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Oh, That

June 14, 2015 Abby Jackson , Business Insider 0 Comments
New York Times Op-Ed Writer Who Defaulted On Student Loans Differs From Many Borrowers In One Big Way

By Abby Jackson, Jun. 12, 2015, Business Insider

Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Lee Siegel wrote an op-ed article in The New York Times on Saturday in which he advised people to default on their student loans rather than remain stuck with crippling debt.

That advice sparked criticism because he appeared to downplay the consequences of defaulting on student debt. His article is also spurring more conversation about the burdens of paying for school.

Another New York Times op-ed article that came out Thursday points out that Siegel is different from many student-loan borrowers in that he actually graduated from college.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

TERRORISM?

March 26, 2015 Associated Press , Ed Morrissey 0 Comments
Breaking: Deliberate Crash? French Investigators Say Co-Pilot Seized Cockpit, “Wanted To Destroy The Aircraft

By Ed Morrissey, Mar. 26, 2015, HotAir.com

Did the Germanwings air disaster start with a locked door? Both the New York Times and the Associated Press reported last night that the cockpit voice recording strongly suggests that the pilot may have gotten locked outside of the cockpit, and that either the co-pilot either did not or could not let him back onto the flight deck, despite increasingly frantic pounding on the door. ‘There is never an answer,” the source reports:

A senior French military official involved in the investigation described a “very smooth, very cool” conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany. Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door, and there is no answer,” the investigator said. “And then he hits the door stronger, and no answer. There is never an answer.”

He said, “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.” …

“We don’t know yet the reason why one of the guys went out,” said the official, who requested anonymity because the investigation was continuing. “But what is sure is that at the very end of the flight, the other pilot is alone and does not open the door.”

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Mas for Slim

January 15, 2015 Bloomberg News , Carlos Slim 0 Comments
Billionaire Carlos Slim Doubles Holdings in New York Times

Patricia Laya and Gerry Smith, Jan. 14, 2015, Bloomberg

Billionaire Carlos Slim became the largest investor in the New York Times Co. after exercising options to acquire 15.9 million shares in the newspaper company.

Slim bought the shares for almost $6.36 each, about half of Times Co.’s $12.28 closing price, Times Co. said today in a statement. That boosted his stake to 16.8 percent of the company’s Class A shares.

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Nice try

January 05, 2015 Cop Killer , Ismaaiyl Brinsley 0 Comments
At NYT, 2,500-Word Report Labors Mightily to Portray Murderer of Two NYPD Cops As a Victim

Tom Blumer, Jan. 4, 2015, Newsbusters

Nothing will change the fact that Ismaaiyl Brinsley specifically cited the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner as his motivation. The Times's massive and transparent effort to water down that inconvenient truth is disgraceful, and unfortunately consistent with the mentality it has displayed during the past several weeks in this and related matters.

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Monday, December 1, 2014

The "evil right" strikes back

December 01, 2014 Barbara P. Mikkelson , Charles C. Johnson 0 Comments
Liberal @Snopes Couple OKs Publishing #DarrenWilson Address

By Charles C. Johnson, Nov. 29, 2014, Gotnews.com

The liberal couple behind Snopes defended the New York TImes decision to publish the address of Darren Wilson and his newly pregnant wife.

Gotnews.com has decided to publish the couple’s address in response.

Barbara and David P. Mikkelson run the controversial website, Snopes.com. It just so happens that they nearly always debunk conservative stories and allow liberal ones to go right through.

Here‘s what they wrote:
The Times did mention that Wilson and his wife own a house in Crestwood and referenced the street name, but they did not publish the full address; moreover, that information was neither current nor revelatory in nature since (as noted in the same article) the Wilsons had vacated the house months earlier, and that same information had already been widely disseminated back in August 2014 in coverage of the Mike Brown case published major newspapers such as the Washington Post and the Boston Globe.

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Too bad not same enthusiasm for IRS, Benghazi, GruberGate, etc

December 01, 2014 Charles C. Johnson , Darren Wilson 0 Comments
COPS: NYT Reporter Who Published #DarrenWilson Address Calling Cops Nonstop

By Charles C. Johnson, Nov. 29, 2014, Gotnews.com

The New York Times journalist who published Darren Wilson’s home address wants police protection and has been calling the police nonstop, Gotnews.com has learned.

Julie Bosman “keeps calling the 020th District station complaining about people harassing and threatening her,” our source told us. She’s also “complaining about numerous food deliveries being sent to her residence.”

Chicago police department sources alerted Gotnews.com about the glaring double standard on Friday.

Gotnews.com published Julie Bosman’s address in Chicago after she published the address of Officer Darren Wilson and his new wife in a widely criticized move.

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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Did not "publish his address"--street had long been long been known

November 29, 2014 Darren Wilson , Erik Wemple 0 Comments
New York Times Responds To Criticism About Darren Wilson’s Address

Erik Wemple, Nov. 26, 2014, Washington Post

Howard Kurtz has accused the New York Times of a “reckless move” in identifying the street on which Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson resides. “Journalism is full of close calls. This is not one of them. The Times should apologize,” writes Kurtz.

On Monday, the Times published ascoop by Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson reporting that Wilson had married fellow officer Barbara Spradling in a “quiet wedding” last month. It noted that the two “own a home together” and identified the town and the name of the street.

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Friday, November 21, 2014

Race card alert!

November 21, 2014 Al Sharpton , Hot Air 0 Comments
Al Sharpton: I Have Tax Problems Because People Hate Obama Or Trayvon Martin Or Something Like That

Jeff Dunetz, Nov. 19, 2014, Hot Air

It is difficult to evaluate whether Sharpton or the NY Times is telling the truth. Sharpton didn’t really address the newspaper’s charges — he answered different questions. And it is hard to believe that the bible of the progressive movement, the NY Times, is attacking Al Sharpton for political reasons.

If the story does turn out to be false, it would be a wonderful demonstration of karma. Despite the fact that he’s a Baptist minister, Al Sharpton regularly breaks the ninth commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” He has incited riots; he has falsely accused people of crimes, made disparaging remarks about people without any justification.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

$4.7Million light; owes FEC $200K

November 19, 2014 Al Sharpton , Fox News 0 Comments
Sharpton's Debt Issues Resurface Amid His Political Rise

Joseph Weber, Nov. 19, 2014, Fox News

The Rev. Al Sharpton has made a remarkable rise to national prominence, from community organizer to President Obama’s consultant, amid a long and lesser-known history of debt and tax obligations totaling millions of dollars.

Sharpton and his for-profit businesses owe more than $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens, according to The New York Times.

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Court battle dead ahead

November 15, 2014 Amnesty , Ashley Parker 0 Comments
Obama Plans To Protect Up To 5 Million From Deportation

Michael D. Shear, Julia Preston, and Ashley Parker, Nov. 13, 2014, New York Times

President Barack Obama is expected to ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration enforcement system that will protect up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide many of them with work permits, according to administration officials who have direct knowledge of the plan.

Asserting his authority as president to enforce the nation's laws with discretion, Obama intends to order changes that will significantly refocus the activities of the government's 12,000 immigration agents. One key piece of the order, officials said, will allow many parents of children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work documents and no longer worry about being discovered, separated from their families and sent away.

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Friday, November 14, 2014

He's right about expectations

November 14, 2014 Affordable Care Act , Curtis Houck 0 Comments
NYT Writer Defends Gruber: Voter Expectations on Health Care Are ‘Completely Incoherent’
Curtis Houck, Nov. 12, 2014, Newsbusters

During a discussion on MSNBC’s The Cycle about the disparaging comments ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber made about the law’s passage and the “stupidity” of voters, New York Times writer and substitute Cycle co-host Josh Barro sought to defend him by blasting the expectations that Americans have about health care as “completely incoherent” and lying was the only solution to make them happy.

Barro told fellow panelists and guest Lauren Fox of National Journal that “what drives me crazy about this story” was that: “Jonathan Gruber was right. Public opinion on health care policy is just completely incoherent.”

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Trading guns for butter, reneging on promises

November 14, 2014 Dave Philipps , Military 0 Comments
Cuts In Military Mean Job Losses For Career Staff

Dave Philipps, Nov. 12, 2014, New York Times

A Haitian immigrant who enlisted as a teenager, he deployed three times to Iraq, missing so many birthdays and Christmases that he sometimes felt he barely knew his four children. He hid symptoms of post-traumatic stress so he could stay in the Army, because he loved his job and believed that after 20 years he could retire with a captain’s pension.

Then this summer, on the day Captain Saintjuste reached his 20 years, the Army told him that as part of the postwar downsizing of the force he would have to retire. And adding insult to injury, he would have to retire as a sergeant, earning $1,200 less per month, because he had not been a captain long enough to receive a captain’s pension.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

But, per NYT, Bush STILL got intel wrong!!

November 08, 2014 C.J. Chivers , Chemical Weapons 0 Comments
NYTimes: More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure In Iraq

C.J. Chivers, Nov. 6, 2014, New York Times

More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer adequate tracking and treatment to those who may have been injured, defense officials say.

The Pentagon’s disclosure abruptly changed the scale and potential costs of the United States’ encounters with abandoned chemical weapons during the occupation of Iraq, episodes the military had for more than a decade kept from view.

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Friday, September 19, 2014

Lib bias live and well at NYT

September 19, 2014 'Jesus on Trial' , Bestselling Books 0 Comments
NY Times Book Review Banishes David Limbaugh From Rightful Place On Best-Seller List

By NB Staff, Sept. 18, 2014,Newsbusters.org

Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner has been dogging the compilers of the formerly prestigious New York Times best-seller list for trying to deny best-seller status to conservative authors. First it was Dinesh D’Souza’s book America.

Now it’s David Limbaugh’s latest book Jesus on Trial. He reports the Times crew has “banished conservative legal author David Limbaugh’s latest, Jesus on Trial, from its upcoming best seller list despite having sales better than 17 other books on the list.”
According to publishing sources, Limbaugh’s probe into the accuracy of the Bible sold 9,660 in its first week out, according to Nielsen BookScan. That should have made it No. 4 on the NYT print hardcover sales list. 
Instead, Henry Kissinger’s World Order, praised by Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post, is No. 4 despite weekly sales of 6,607. 
As Secrets wrote about a similar banishment early in the sales of conservative Dinesh D’Souza’s America, the Gray Lady is mysterious in how it calculates its list. A spokeswoman said, “We let the rankings speak for themselves and are confident they are accurate.” 
The September 28 list of the top 20 print hardcover best sellers includes one book that sold just 1,570 copies.


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Friday, July 25, 2014

Killing the rape survivor?!

July 25, 2014 Afghanistan , Islam 0 Comments
Family Considers Killing 10-yr-old Daughter After Mullah Rapes Her In Afghan Mosque 

By Rod Norland, Jul. 20, 2014, News.nationalpost.com / NY Times

It was bad enough that the alleged rape took place in the sanctity of a mosque and that the accused man was a mullah who invoked the familiar defence that it had been consensual sex.

But the victim was only 10 years old. And there was more: The authorities said her family members openly planned to carry out an honour killing in the case – against the young girl. The mullah offered to marry his victim instead.

This past week, the awful matter became even worse. On Tuesday, local policemen removed the girl from the shelter that had given her refuge and returned her to her family, despite complaints from women’s activists that she was likely to be killed.

The case has broader repercussions. The head of the Women for Afghan Women shelter here where the girl took refuge, Dr. Hassina Sarwari, was at one point driven into hiding by death threats from the girl’s family and other mullahs, who sought to play down the crime by arguing the girl was much older than 10. One militia commander sent Sarwari threatening texts and an ultimatum to return the girl to her family. The doctor said she now wanted to flee Afghanistan.

The head of the women’s affairs office in Kunduz, Nederah Geyah, who actively campaigned to have the young girl protected from her family and the mullah prosecuted, resigned May 21 and moved to another part of the country.

The case itself would just be an aberrant atrocity, except that the resulting support for the mullah, and for the girl’s family and its honour killing plans, have become emblematic of a broader failure to help Afghan women who have been victims of violence.

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