[lit-ideas] Re: NYT in the news again
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:19:00 -0400
RP: Tell you what. If you, from up there on the banks of the Hudson, can
cite one Times editorial from the past two years endorsing Bush, his
policies, or his Administration, I'll send you from here on the banks of
the Willamette, a native fish of your own choosing. Maybe even pack it
in ice.
Thanks for answering Andy. Sometimes I think he lives on another planet.
Stan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Paul" <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 11:20 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: NYT in the news again
> > A.A. How do you explain the NYT support for Bush and his war and
> > their intense dislike for Clinton. None of what our paper of record
> > published about Whitewater was true. How do you explain that?
>
> Andy,
>
> Are you talking about some current support for Bush on the part of the
> NYT? Let's see some evidence. Cite some editorials, news stories, or
> opinion pieces. (They have Tierny and Brooks for 'balance' as
> columnists, but their heavy hitters op ed are Bob Herbert and Frank
> Rich, and Paul Krugman has never met an Administration economic policy
> he liked.)
>
> On every matter of policy that I can think of since 9/11, the Times has
> editorially opposed Bush and his cronies. The letters page is about 9/1
> anti-Bush, a margin that shows (if the Times is consistent with other US
> papers) that that's near the actual break down, and that that 1/10 is
> pretty much the most they can squeeze out of their readership.
>
> Letting Judith Miller run wild was a disaster, and not looking behind
> the agit-prop on the runup to the Iraq invasion was another (although
> these two things are apparently closely related).
>
> Tell you what. If you, from up there on the banks of the Hudson, can
> cite one Times editorial from the past two years endorsing Bush, his
> policies, or his Administration, I'll send you from here on the banks of
> the Willamette, a native fish of your own choosing. Maybe even pack it
> in ice.
>
> As for Clinton: what's that got to do with anything? Mike Geary, who has
> a wiser political head on his shoulders than Bill Keller ever will. And
> he shows little love for the Kid from Hope.
>
> See today's comment on the Miller/Iraq/Chalabi fiasco at
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/opinion/23publiceditor.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fThe%20Public%20Editor
>
> If you have to register to see this, let me know, and I'll cut and paste
> it for the list.
>
> Robert Paul
> Reed C ollege
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