Posts Tagged ‘new york times’
Ed Driscoll Wonders At Death By Shopping
ED DRISCOLL looks at death by shopping:
“If the New York Times and its writers and editors can’t see the difference between an unfortunate shopping incident and the Spanish Civil War, one wonders what what value the newspaper has as an information source to be trusted by their readers.”
Indeed…
Posted: 2nd, December 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Santa Is Dead To New York Mothers
ALTHOUSE notices:
“We Hate Your Kids, The Poors, The Panic of ’08, Journalismism, New York Times, The Rich.”
Tags on this Gawker post — “The Infuriating New Face Of Poverty” — about a truly absurd NYT article headlined “To Buy Children’s Gifts, Mothers Do Without.”
Gifts. The children still get gifts..?
New York Times Covers France More Then UK
THE New York Times covers it all, just some of it more then others:
France is No.3…
Sarah Palin’s Smear Test
ANDREW Sullivan is obsessed with Sarah Palin’s vagina and reproductive system.
Nothing is known publicly about Ms. Palin’s medical history, aside from the much-discussed circumstances surrounding the birth of her fifth child last April.
They say Bristol Palin has two wombs. Well. Andrew Sullivan does. Now he says:
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
New York Times Ignores Obama While It Chases McCain’s Kids
CINDY McCain’s lawyer is not happy with the New York Times:
“It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father.
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Posted: 19th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
New York Times Catches Up With Anorak
It’s not like we’re bragging…
But it taken until today for the New York Times to notice that:
‘The derivatives market is … theoretically intended to limit risk and ward off financial problems, the contracts instead have stoked uncertainty and actually spread risk amid doubts about how companies value them.’
We have been saying that for weeks:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1837
– Chenier
Posted: 9th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Sarah Palin Is Man Made Hot
SARAH Palin on global warming. Says the New York Times editorial:
There were also occasional, disturbing flashes of the old, pre-campaign Sarah Palin. When asked about the causes of global warming, Ms. Palin suggested that man had some role — but she wasn’t saying how much.
Is anyone?
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Posted: 7th, October 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (17)
How The New York Times And Washington Post Lost Their Worth
The New York Times and the Washington Post are churning out reams of articles in fulfilling their traditional function of explaining what went wrong – you will be relieved to know that they haven’t come up with anything that Anorak has not already covered- but I am waiting with some glee for the next step in the process.
Viz, how come things could be so monumentally f*cked when the New York Times and the Washington Post hadn’t noticed that there was anything wrong before the shit hit the fan bigtime?
The model will be the New York Times eviscerating itself when the Weapons of Mass Destruction it had so confidently stated were stockpiled in Iraq turned out to be a fantasy.
This time around it’s the Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction which they failed to notice, notwithstanding the fact that, short of turning cartwheels across their desks, the WMFDs couldn’t have been more blindingly obvious.
Anyone like to bet on the time scale for the ritual breast beating to start?
– Chenier
Anorak Scoops Washington Post On Sovereign Funds Debt
Washington Post Calls For Tax On Information
New York Times Links Madeleine McCann To Murder Of Meredith Kercher
Posted: 5th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
New York Times Links Madeleine McCann To Murder Of Meredith Kercher
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
NEW YORK TIMES: “Details Only Add to Puzzle in Umbrian Murder Case”
In the coming weeks, a judge will decide whether to indict Amanda Knox, of Seattle, and her onetime Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the killing of Ms. Knox’s 21-year-old housemate, Meredith Kercher, last November.
It’s the law at work. It’s Tabloid Bingo!
A third suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede, who was born in Ivory Coast and grew up in Italy, is undergoing a separate fast-track, closed-door trial for murder and sexual assault; a verdict in his case is expected by the end of October.
It’s Italian law at work.
And Madeleine McCann… How does she feature in this story?
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Posted: 30th, September 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (63)
Double WaMu: Alan H. Fishman In Line For Million Dollar-A-Day Bonus
WHEN Lehman Brothers collapsed, news was of the French trader who’d arrived at his desk to see his desk leave the office. (Although now Nomura, the Japanese outfit, has agreed to take over the European business, his desk might return).
Now learn of CEO Alan H. Fishman, chief executive of Washington Mutual. He started his new job at the failed bank just three weeks ago.
Mr Fishman is now eligible for $19.1 million in compensation.
The New York Times notes:
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Posted: 27th, September 2008 | In: Money | Comments (30)
McCain Up, WaMu Down
Well as the New York Times puts it:
‘Government Seizes WaMu and Sells Some Assets’
Though the headline omits to mention that the assets were what Hank ‘Call me Uncle Joe’ Paulson likes to describe as ‘Troubled Assets’.
And everybody is writing about it, which is fair enough since this is the biggest bank failure in US history; Washington Mutual had $307 billion in assets, so it’s probably the biggest bank failure in the history of the Solar system.
But nobody, so far, has asked whether John McCain’s plan to assist his own Troubled Asset, his Presidential campaign, by disrupting the bipartisan agreement that was reported to have been reached on the ‘Buddy Can You Spare a Trillion’ plan was the dagger in the back of WaMu’s share and bond holders.
As the reports started coming out of the talks ‘imploding’ whatever last hopes WaMu had of surviving disappeared, and it went under without the new CEO even knowing about it; don’t worry, he gets to keep the signing on fee.
It looks like McCain has been running an ‘off the record plan’, the political equivalent of Off Balance Sheet financing, and he appears to be perfectly willing to let anything or anyone go down if it will put him in the White House.
Which is also fair enough; that’s what politicians do. And maybe the rest of the media will notice it sometime soon…
– Chenier
US Treasury Takes On Powers Stalin Only Dreamed Of
IT has finally dawned on less august media that the proposed legislation I described some days ago as –
‘the US Treasury acquiring the sort of untrammeled power that Stalin dreamed of’
– would, indeed, give the US Treasury the sort of untrammeled power that Stalin dreamed of.
Well, at least the New York Times has, noting that the Treasury Secretary –
‘will be vested with perhaps the most incredible powers ever bestowed on one person over the economic and financial life of the nation. It is the financial equivalent of the Patriot Act’
Perhaps Anorak readers could comment on whether this is a ‘Good Thing’?- Stevie…
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Money | Comments (19)
