NYT admits its liberal bias

[Ripsnort]

Shouldn't surprise anyone except those with their heads in the sand...

Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?
By DANIEL OKRENT
Published: July 25, 2004


OF course it is.

The fattest file on my hard drive is jammed with letters from the disappointed, the dismayed and the irate who find in this newspaper a liberal bias that infects not just political coverage but a range of issues from abortion to zoology to the appointment of an admitted Democrat to be its watchdog. (That would be me.) By contrast, readers who attack The Times from the left - and there are plenty - generally confine their complaints to the paper's coverage of electoral politics and foreign policy.

I'll get to the politics-and-policy issues this fall (I want to watch the campaign coverage before I conclude anything), but for now my concern is the flammable stuff that ignites the right. These are the social issues: gay rights, gun control, abortion and environmental regulation, among others. And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you've been reading the paper with your eyes closed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?pagewanted=all&position

[hawker238]

Then why did you post it?

[ra]

That did it, I'm canceling my subscription.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by hawker238
Then why did you post it?

To generate conversation from the naysayers that posted in threads such as this:
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=118267&referrerid=3203

and this:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/defaultframe.html

and this:
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=105816&referrerid=3203


Want more examples?

[midnight Target]

So what does this mean ... aside from the refreshing honesty?

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by midnight Target
So what does this mean ... aside from the refreshing honesty?

What does it mean to you, besides refreshing honesty?  If a man admits a murder, does that make him less guily of the crime?

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by midnight Target
So what does this mean ... aside from the refreshing honesty?

That the NYT is a left biased and thus unreliable source of news. But fine if you are liberal and to want hear things you agree with.

It's a left wing rag.

[midnight Target]

Do you always aswer a question with a question? Are you equating liberalism to murder? Are you nuts?

[straffo]

Fortunatly Fox news and the Washington Time still are neutral and unbiased

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Are you equating liberalism to murder?

Actually that comparsion is even more ridicouls than the nonexistant analogy you are alluding to.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Do you always aswer a question with a question? Are you equating liberalism to murder? Are you nuts?

Why bring up Abortion? That is a separate issue...

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Actually that comparsion is even more ridicouls than the nonexistant analogy you are alluding to.

If a man admits a murder, does that make him less guily of the crime?

Reading is fundamental.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Reading is fundamental.

It's also a skill unmastered by far more on the left than the right.

[DrDea]

Actually gents,the Post AND the NYT BOTH took Kerry under there wing in a meeting to help him make a better impression before he started running.It was in NY and shows where the Post stands.We allready knew NYT was liberal.

[X2Lee]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Do you always aswer a question with a question? Are you equating liberalism to murder? Are you nuts?

Im a right wing nut job. I equate liberalism to murder.
I think abortion is murder so that says it all....