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In media disgrace.(Beat the Press)
The New York Times and its supporters insist that the newspaper blurs news and opinion only occasionally. Its critics insist this happens frequently, and could be avoided. So who's right?
One useful indicator is the Times' "Corrections" page during the elections of 2000 and 2002, which reveals a consistent pattern of disfavoring Republicans. Some representative extracts, in the paper's own words:
* "A headline yesterday ... about Gov. George W. Bush's Presidential campaign said in some copies that he had stressed integrity '... Even as Drunken-Driving Arrest Raises Questions of Character.' That phrasing exceeded the facts of the article, and its opinionated tone was unintended." [Nov. 5, 2000]
* "An article ... yesterday reported an assertion that Justice Clarence Thomas ... faced a serious conflict of interest because of his wife's work for the Heritage Foundation.... In its 12th paragraph, the article said [the person] who raised the conflict question was an associate of Vice President Al Gore's family, and the 14th paragraph reported that the Times had been directed to that judge by 'someone in the Gore campaign.' The partisan nature of the source should have been made clear more promptly and reflected in ... the headline." [Dec. 13, 2000]
* "An article ... about the congressional election in New Mexico's Second District referred incompletely to the presence of Hispanic candidates in the campaign for governor.... The Democratic candidate for governor, Bill Richardson, is not the only Hispanic in the race; the Republican candidate, John Sanchez, is another." [Oct. 16, 2002]
* "An article yesterday about a California judge's victory ... making her the first openly gay elected prosecutor in the country, misstated her political affiliation. The judge, Bonnie Dumanis, is a Republican." [Nov. 14, 2002]
* "An article on Thursday about comments on the midterm elections by ... Karl Rove ... misstated the question to which he responded, 'I'm concerned about the 3,000 who died on 9/11.' The questioner had asked whether he was concerned about 200,000 people who she said marched in Washington against a war with ...
- INTERNATIONAL: Letter From America - NYT ed's dismissal puts personal PR in...
- Newspaper article from: PR Week (UK) June 27, 2003 700+ words
The dismissal of NYT editor Howell Raines has put the issue of personal PR...his dismissal as editor of The New York Times a couple of weeks ago, it's hard to believe that Howell Raines - who seemed incapable of connecting...
- Editorial: THE MEDIA: No Raines, No Thunder.(resignation of Howell Raines, New...
- Magazine article from: National Review June 30, 2003 700+ words
Five weeks after the Jayson Blair scandal broke, Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, executive and managing editors of the New York Times, resigned. In Trollope's novels the voice of authority that lays down the law for Victorian England is called...
- Bad news: what the right doesn't understand about Howell Raines....
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Confessore, Nicholas October 7, 2002 700+ words
...the same way, the Howell Raines routinely criticized...the top slot at The New York Times a year ago...exploded in anger. "The New York Times has decided to...American war as has Howell Raines' New York Times," thundered...
- When it Raines ...(Howell Raines, Gerald Boyd resign from New York Times)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Alterman, Eric June 30, 2003 700+ words
...resignation of the two top editors of the New York Times. It's not as if the departure of Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd from the newspaper of...accepted storyline as follows. (1) Howell Raines was a guilt-ridden Southern liberal...
- Editors take fall from I'affaire Blair.(Howell Raines, Gerald Boyd resign from...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety LaPorte, Nicole McClintock, Pamela Goldsmith, Jill Snyder, Gabriel June 6, 2003 700+ words
...Thursday: Executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald...history of the newspaper. The New York Times announced it has tapped...publisher and chair of the New York Times Co. Despite Sulzberger...Raines and Boyd walking into a New York theater for a staff ...
- The chastening of the times.(Howell Raines, former executive editor at the New...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Sherman, Scott October 11, 2004 700+ words
...executive editor of the New York Times, Howell Raines. Raines, in a white...pages of both the New York Daily News and the...swinging. Who is Howell Raines, and why has he uttered...disagreeable things about the New York Times? Raines was...
- `The One That Got Away' by Howell Raines: Fish tales of life and the New York...
- News wire article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Wilson, Frank July 5, 2006 700+ words
...That Got Away'' by Howell Raines; Scribner ($25...one might say about Howell Raines, the truest thing about...erstwhile editor of the New York Times is that he is...from Raines was the New York Times. A Times veteran...
- Howell much is too much?(New York Times editor Howell Raines's coverage of...
- Magazine article from: American Journalism Review Smolkin, Rachel March 1, 2003 700+ words
The New York Times has heavily covered...aggressive as the paper Howell Raines runs. Does a story affecting...By mid-February, the New York Times, the Los Angeles...September 27. A front-page New York Times story on October...
- Times editor sez he'll stay.(New York Times executive editor Howell Raines will...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Snyder, Gabriel Laporte, Nicole May 15, 2003 700+ words
...staff meeting of the New York Times, the paper's...charging executive editor Howell Raines said he did not plan...theater near the Times' New York headquarters, business...Southern District of New York had requested information...
- THE END OF HIS RAINES.(New York Times executive editor Howell Raines resigns)
- Magazine article from: WWD Bernstein, Jacob June 6, 2003 700+ words
NEW YORK -- The jockeying has no doubt already begun within The New York Times' building on 43rd Street almost two years after departed executive editor Howell Raines stepped up the paper's focus on pop culture...
Source: HighBeam Research, In media disgrace.(Beat the Press)