The NYT Gets More Like MSNBC Every Day
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 16th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
The NYT Gets More Like MSNBC Every Day
Mickey Kaus, The Daily Caller
MSNYT: Innovations in bias technology are coming at an increasingly rapid pace in the New York Times–it’s a regular Singularity of self-reinforcement over there. In June the paper deployed its powerful “Draws Attention To” template, the formula for which isX event in the news (go find one if necessary)“draws attention to”Y argument the Times wants to pushExample: SAGGING ECONOMY DRAWS ATTENTION TO WAR SPENDING
Is the Fighting Obama Back?
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — For President Obama, these are the days of never hearing an encouraging word. Not since his own supporters were losing faith in his presidential campaign in the summer of 2007 has Obama confronted so many bad reviews and such widespread frustration and angry criticism from his own side.Now, the censure is reinforced by terrible tidings from the outside in the form of wildly swinging stock markets, persistent unemployment and divisions in the nation's capital so deep that they make the period around President Clinton's impeachment look like an era of good feelings.For…
Obama Policies Destroying Wealth at Rapid Rate
Nolan Finley, Det News
Democrats better hurry and soak the rich while there are still enough of them left to make it worth the effort.At the rate President Barack Obama's policies are destroying wealth, the pool of millionaire taxpayers may be too shallow to provide the windfall the redistributors hope for.
The Texas Unmiracle
Paul Krugman, New York Times
As expected, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, has announced that he is running for president. And we already know what his campaign will be about: faith in miracles.Some of these miracles will involve things that you’re liable to read in the Bible. But if he wins the Republican nomination, his campaign will probably center on a more secular theme: the alleged economic miracle in Texas, which, it’s often asserted, sailed through the Great Recession almost unscathed thanks to conservative economic policies. And Mr. Perry will claim that he can restore prosperity to America…
