Labeling Bias
2/14/2013 3:39 PM ET
From the start the Times has oozed sympathy for the plight of
Obama's nominee for secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, warning darkly of
the disappearance of congressional "comity" and ...
2/11/2013 1:45 PM ET
Larry Rohter sees a parallel between Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the Tea Party-Koch brothers: "In Chile the debate about 'No' has also been complicated by noncinematic
issues, ...
2/4/2013 3:39 PM ET
Jeff Zeleny: "The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to
recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from
challenges by far-right conservatives and ...
2/1/2013 2:10 PM ET
Ashley Parker's cheery piece on immigration "reform" was
marked with labeling bias, pitting opponents as "conservatives" and
"the right," up against unlabeled supporters of amnesty proposals ...
1/24/2013 2:39 PM ET
"The crimson ideology" of the Kansas GOP? Times reporter John Eligon: "While Republican principles of small government and low taxes have holds
on large swaths of the country, Kansas provides ...
1/22/2013 5:35 PM ET
The cat's out of the bag: Obama's a liberal. A banner headline across the New York Times front
page confirmed what conservatives have been saying for years: "Obama Offers Liberal Vision: 'We ...
1/22/2013 11:44 AM ET
The cat's out of the bag: Obama's a liberal. A banner headline across the Times front
page confirmed what conservatives have been saying for years: "Obama Offers Liberal Vision: 'We Must Act.'" ...
1/21/2013 4:10 PM ET
Ouch! New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos on Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer: "she was repeatedly called 'compassionate,' not a word often used to describe her." Santos also called two groups ...
1/15/2013 4:06 PM ET
Political reporter Jim Rutenberg, along with his headline writer, threw
around the loaded term "neoconservative," a term most often used as an
insult by leftists and the media, in his Sunday ...
1/9/2013 1:01 PM ET
Reporter Manny Fernandez let his readers know what he really thinks about the Tea Party in Texas: "The far-right agenda of grass-roots and Tea Party activists has
come to dominate the Republican ...