Labeling Bias
5/9/2013 11:06 AM ET
Soft labeling of Communist dictators has been a historical problem for the New York Times. Mark Landler and David Sanger
described the late South Korea president Park Chung-Hee as a ...
5/3/2013 12:13 PM ET
Former Times reporter Timothy Egan attacked Republican House member Louie Gohmert, "who has said so many crazy things that this assertion passed with little comment." He's also a paid-up member of ...
4/11/2013 12:43 PM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes, an Obama
fan, at first appeared to criticize his new budget by questioning his liberal – um,
"progressive" – credentials, but only to later ...
4/10/2013 2:01 PM ET
A report on the American Conservative Union by Times reporter Nicholas Confessore -- who previously wrote for the liberal journals Washington Monthly and American Prospect -- was marred by ...
4/9/2013 12:19 PM ET
The Times celebrates with explicit language "a tiny beacon of sexual health resources at the deeply Catholic institution" -- a condom giveaway program at Boston College. Also, a lead story ...
3/25/2013 7:10 PM ET
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, a former White House
reporter for the Times, followed Sen. John McCain in mocking attendees
of the latest Conservative Political Action Conference (aka ...
3/25/2013 2:05 PM ET
From Frank Bruni's Sunday column on gay marriage and the Republican Party: "CPAC, mind you, is no enclave of moderation and
reason. It’s more like an aviary for the far-right 'wacko birds' whom ...
3/25/2013 12:40 PM ET
A front-page Times profile of Brian Brown,
president of the National Organization for Marriage, which fights gay
marriage legislation, was actually fair until reporter Sheryl Gay
Stolberg's ...
3/21/2013 12:00 PM ET
The original online headline to a budget legislation story likely captured what reporters Jonathan Weisman and Annie Lowrey wanted to say: "Plan
That Would Spare Vital Programs Is Expected to ...
3/20/2013 10:35 AM ET
Jack Healy: "Eight months later, [Colorado Gov. John]
Hickenlooper is poised to sign some of the toughest new gun control laws
in the nation, capping a journey that has transformed a popular, ...
