A story on the New York Times by Politico’s Media Writer Dylan Byers has set their newsroom on fire, literally. Screams, gun shots, and white on white racial epithets are flying as the reporting staff at Politico tries to pray their way through an existential crisis. How can a political blog keep making things [...]

There are many explanations for why America is more right-wing than other countries in the developed world; an individualistic and unsympathetic political culture, the use of religion for reactionary causes, racial antagonism and division in the working class, a governmental structure designed to defend a commercial oligarchy – take your pick. But just because the [...]

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy So Noam Chomsky won the argument. Or so, in essence, says former Executive Editor of the New York Times Bill Keller. Keller admits in the MSNBC Special on the media coverage of the run up to the Iraq War that the New York [...]

Marcy Wheeler brings us the disturbing revelation of a New York Times reporter collaborating with the CIA by giving them an advance copy of a Maureen Dowd column, ostensibly to “check a fact.” Mazzetti’s correspondence with CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf, on Aug. 5, 2011, pertained to the Kathryn Bigelow-Mark Boal film “Zero Dark Thirty,” about [...]

Arthur Brisbane, ending his tour as the New York Times’ public editor, went out with a slap in the face at his employer, suggesting that they reflect a liberal bias. I also noted two years ago that I had taken up the public editor duties believing “there is no conspiracy” and that The Times’s output [...]

Among the growing number of stories speculating on the potential outcomes of the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s mandates and coverage expansion, we’re also seeing articles like this — Supporters Slow to Grasp Health Law’s Legal Risks — by Peter Baker of the New York Times.  Baker suggests that [...]

It’s only on the New York Times’ blog (not sure if these things ever make their way into the paper), but thanks to David Firestone for taking the right lesson from the Obama Administration’s proud boasts in favor of spending cuts: “Do not buy into the b.s. that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint [...]

On housing policy, the New York Times has a knack of getting to the nub of the issue on a bit of a time delay. Weeks after the publication of the foreclosure fraud settlement, they figured out that the settlement would allow banks to get credit for things they already do in the normal course [...]

An article in today’s New York Times tells us about two new reports, one from the Rockefeller Institute (RI), the other from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), which together tell us about the fiscal health of state and local governments.  The RI report gives us data on the amount of tax revenues [...]

A Cross-Post from DeSmogBlog The controversy over TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline has raged on for years now, with no end in sight. The Keystone XL pipeline would carry tar sands crude from the tar sands epicenter of the world in Alberta, Canada, take it down to Cushing, OK, and then eventually down to Port Arthur, TX, where it will [...]

The headline sounded impressive: “Review Finds Possible Flaws in More Than 138,000 Foreclosures.” And it’s a review from the notoriously bank-friendly Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, to boot! Maybe the government has gotten the message on the practices of the mortgage industry! Hardly. The 138,000 number is out of a universe of homes [...]