Labeling Bias
9/17/2012 10:39 AM ET
Times reporter John Eligon: "This challenge to Mr. Obama comes
in a state where the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, is heavily
favored, and where the electorate has shifted sharply to the ...
9/4/2012 2:14 PM ET
But Obama's not a liberal? Times reporter Jo Becker: "Ms. Jarrett often serves as a counterweight to the more centrist Clinton veterans in the administration...It is not so much that she is
Mr. ...
8/30/2012 11:32 AM ET
Reporter Michael Cooper tried hard to make the Republican platform seem menacing: "The new platform -- with its call to reshape Medicare to give
fixed amounts of money to future beneficiaries so ...
8/21/2012 3:20 PM ET
So where's the "far right" part? "Ted
Yoho, who won a Congressional primary in northern Florida, wants to
abolish the income tax and replace it with a sales tax, believes life
begins at ...
8/13/2012 12:07 PM ET
Times reporter Jackie Calmes sounds unhappy with Romney's choice of Paul Ryan: "His blueprint would greatly
shrink the government, largely undoing the social safety net by shifting
more costs ...
8/10/2012 10:03 AM ET
Times' Atlanta bureau Chief Kim Severson visited Charlotte as it prepared for the Democratic National Convention and found "radical evangelical groups" composed of
"conservative Christians" as ...
8/6/2012 1:18 PM ET
New York Times reporter John Eligon's story could be the paper's all-time winner as far as labeling
density, with a staggering 36 uses of the word "conservative" in
non-quoted material.
(In ...
7/13/2012 2:49 PM ET
Veteran New York Times reporter Erik Eckholm again dismisses concerns about fetal pain during abortion as unscientific, while slapping ideological labels on abortion opponents and tilting his ...
7/12/2012 5:32 PM ET
Former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse suspects she knows
why Roberts may have changed his mind on ObamaCare: "I doubt there was a
single reason for the chief justice’s ...
7/5/2012 1:28 PM ET
Deceased Palestinian Authority leader Yassir Arafat, who presided over a five-year Intifada against Israeli citizens, is not a terrorist according to the New York Times, merely a leader who left a ...
