Gaffes
5/14/2013 10:26 AM ET
Columnist Frank Bruni: "....about 65 percent of us
can’t name a single Supreme Court justice. Not the chief one, John
Roberts. Not the mute one, Clarence Thomas. Not even the mean one, ...
5/13/2013 1:37 PM ET
An unusual two-column lead headline tried to stir up global warming fears: "Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears." Catchy headline; too bad it's false, according to the Los Angeles ...
5/2/2013 3:20 PM ET
The New York Times devoted a special section to business travel, with sympathetic articles like "Dispatches From the
Foxholes of Business Travel." But do the travelers the Times is
catering to ...
4/30/2013 1:22 PM ET
So a rising stock market is bad for minorities? New York Times economics reporter Annie Lowrey: "Given the dynamics of the housing recovery and the rebound in
the stock market, the wealth gap ...
4/25/2013 1:01 PM ET
Wait, what? New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage: "The risk aversion comes amid claims by intelligence agencies that 16
percent of 603 former detainees were 'confirmed' -- and an ...
4/5/2013 11:32 AM ET
The New York Times' most alarmist environmental reporter Justin Gillis offers still more "proof" of a warming planet: "In Sign of Global Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Peru’s Andes Melted in 25 ...
4/3/2013 2:10 PM ET
Michael Shear: "But no background check is required for about 40 percent of gun
purchases, including those made online or at gun shows, federal
officials estimate." Wrong, says the Washington ...
4/3/2013 1:43 PM ET
A new Times policy means more use of the politically correct term "undocumented," to refer to illegal immigrants, which Times reporter Ashley Parker has admitted is the preferred term of the ...
4/1/2013 1:35 PM ET
A front-page New York Times story by Michael Winerip on indictments in a student testing scandal in Atlanta involving Beverly
Hall, former superintendent of that city's predominantly minority ...
4/1/2013 11:24 AM ET
A Rome-based reporter for the New York Times manages to botch the meaning of Easter: "Easter is the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus, three days after he was crucified,
the ...
