Comments on: Speak No Bias: The Times Only Concedes ‘Insufficient Tuned-in-ness’

By: Class Clown

Class Clown — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:25:27 +0000

What a coincidence. I’ve been suffering from “insufficient tuned-in-ness” to anything the NYT has to say for quite some time now…

By: Marc Malone

Marc Malone — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:06:34 +0000

#49 Brenda G – Yes, they have family. However, these people think the elites should rule. The elites are those who went to the right elite schools. (Of course they are the elites. They went to those schools, didn’t they?) The elites are those who move in the right circles and hold the same beliefs and champion the same causes. They put themselves into that category of elites. They believe they themselves will rightly rule as one of thelites. Their family is, therefore, taken care of, and the world will be as it should be.

Aristocrat wannabe’s. Useful Idiots. Doomed to carry water forever, or doomed to be carried off to the camps. But, hey, they at least get to bask in the glow of the reflected glory of others. They get to move in the circles of power, although as mere lickspittles. Still, they can then claim to be above the hoi-polloi. Such an existence is far to be preferred to standing on one’s own with dignity. That is just too scary. Where’s the security in that?

The rich in broken countries do not compare in wealth to the rich in our country, but they are richer than all all those around them trapped in abysmal poverty. However, they get to lord it over the others, and there is no price too great to pay for that particular prize.

That is their motivation: the desire to lord it over others. There is no greater prize than this stroking of one’s own ego. They are Liberals. They are the self-anointed elite. Nothing else matters. They went to the right schools. They run in the right circles. They live in the right neighborhoods. They eat the right foods. Drink the right beverages. Listen to the right music. Hold the right political views. They are the elite. And it just feels soooo goood.

By: Brenda G

Brenda G — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:55:30 +0000

At the end of the day, does the NYT’s employees not have family, children and Grandchildren who will also be forced to live with the damage put forth by Obama and the Democrats takeover of our lives?. Just a thought. It’s not just us lowly flyover peasants who live in this Country.

By: lefroy

lefroy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:31:29 +0000

“insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.”

Not “we ignored a hot story about appalling corruption in ACORN” but “no-one was paying attention to the (distasteful) preoccupations of the right-wing media”. In other words, the story was “what the right are chattering about”, rather than ACORN’s corruption.

There is no hope for the NYT. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

By: Artist

Artist — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:34:43 +0000

We need to back off and give the gray lady a break-

She missed the ACORN fiasco because of her weeks of devotion to culture and art exhibits for the elite.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iowahawk_blog/3961870121/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iowahawk_blog/3961869881/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iowahawk_blog/3966129742/

By: Pragmatist

Pragmatist — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:25:55 +0000

Lets get to the root of the problem shall we. Colleges and Universities staffed by left wing, radical Islamophile professors have been churning out brainwashed students since the 60′s on both sides of the ‘pond’. Europe fell to these Socialist/Communist/Fascist Islamophiles a long time ago now it is the turn of the USA. You now have your first over promoted inexperienced, unqualified, RACIST, Document HIDING, Affirmative Action, LYING, Mohammedan, usurper President Milli Vanilli (ooops sorry Barrack , you can call me HUSSEIN now I WON, Obama). The hordes of other left wing, Islamophile brainwashed students produced over the years are now ensconced as Judges, Congressmen, Senators, High Ranking Military Officers and Policemen etc etc. One and all working to bring down and destroy America. Wake up America there is a COUP taking place the unelected CZARS mainly Black and drawn from the left wing CORRUPT Unions and ACORN are already in place your children are being indoctrinated in to the CULT of Obama at school and the INTERNMENT Camps are ready.

By: Fantom

Fantom — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:27:43 +0000

New York Times, a newspaper. Well I’ll be. I thought it was just sold at pet stores to line the floor of birdcages… at least that is where I saw one once.

By: John "birther" Samford

John "birther" Samford — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:20:42 +0000

Those of you waiting for the M.Y. Times and other prominent members of the MSM to drown in their red ink need to go sit in the corner with those that think the Mad Dog Mullahs will be overthrow by the Iranian mobs. You can share kool-aid while waiting for never to get here.
Either the politicians will arrange a public bail out ( unconstitutional, but that hasn’t stopped them with Health Insurance) or one of the Socialist Billionairs will step up to the plate. Gates is keeping MSBNBC afloat. Both of it’s viewers appreciate that.
I don’t think Soros has that sort of money, but Lewis does. Ayer’s family is in the billionaire range, IIRC.

By: BC

BC — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:16:10 +0000

Relative to everything else going on, the ACORN stuff ranks somewhere between Lindsay Lohan's troubles and metal theft.

By: cfbleachers

cfbleachers — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:58:13 +0000

tanstaafl

I like you, you seem like a great person, so I don’t find myself disagreeing with you very often…however,…perhaps just this one time.

Gibbs has a job to spin the administration’s position, cover for their foul-ups and to over exaggerate credit, while deflecting blame.

The NEWS media, is a quasi-public trust…it is the lifeblood of our information stream. They should NEVER feel that it is their job to take on the role of distorting the FACTS in order to make one political party the favorite on EVERY major issue of the day.

Moreover, Hoyt’s role…is the TRUSTEE…of the public trust. That is, …in what should be a RARE instance that the media outlet (in this case, the Gray Spinster)lost its objectivity and began to intentionally distort the facts…such that, we lost our ability to believe in our own information stream, he is all the more the moral coward.

Gibbs spin is in the job description. The NY Times spin is a violation of their mandate. Hoyt’s cover-up is a conspiracy to defraud America.