Topic: New York Times

By Alexander Abad-Santos

Aug 10, 2012

Yet Another Angle on Gay Marriage: When Will You Have Kids?

Forty-four states don't even allow gay marriage, but that hasn't stopped The New York Times from getting ahead of itself in reporting on the "trend" of same-sex male couples who are now being asked about their plans for raising children.

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By David Wagner

Aug 9, 2012

Comment of the Day

New York Times Will Print LMFAO, But Not STFU

Today, Jen Doll looked at the New York Times' justification for not printing STFU Parents, the name of a popular blog. But, as one commenter noted, the paper is just fine with printing LMFAO. 

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By Jen Doll

Aug 9, 2012

Precious Parents and Why You Can't Say 'STFU' in The New York Times

There's a piece in The New York Times that indicates we're in a whole new phase of preciousness about what we should allow ourselves to be exposed to on the Internet, and there's a parallel story that relates to The New York Times itself. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Aug 8, 2012

Someone's Willing to Pay $270 Million for About.com

AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports that The New York Times Company is trying to unload the site which totally mucks up your search results About.com to Answers.com. While the purported price may sound like a lot, keep in mind that The Times initially paid $410 million in 2005 for the content farm which is at least a $140 million hit.

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By Jen Doll

Aug 6, 2012

How to Start a How-To Tumblr for Women

In the ongoing debate over the byline gender gap, the July 29 issue of the New York Times Book Review, the "How-To" issue, has attracted some attention, inspiring a Tumblr of How-Tos from women. 

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By Adam Martin

Aug 6, 2012

New York Times Photographer's On-Duty Arrest Makes The Times

Robert Stolarik, a New York Times freelance photographer whose clashes with police became part of the narrative of Occupy Wall Street was arrested while on assignment for the paper in the Bronx over the weekend, apparently for getting too close to an arrest in progress.

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By Jen Doll

Aug 2, 2012

A Polite Conversation Between Some Kids, About a Bar

With a certain article in the New York Times Wednesday, it appears that the age-old debate about kids in bars has reared its ugly head out of a keg we thought we'd kicked back in 2008. Has anyone asked the kids what they think?

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By Connor Simpson

Aug 1, 2012

Corrections on The New York Times' Gore Vidal Obituary Are Amazing

He did have sex with him; he called him a crypto-Nazi, not crypto-fascist; and he wasn't related to Al Gore. The corrections on the New York Times' Gore Vidal obituary are so perfectly Vidal.

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By Eric Randall

Aug 1, 2012

Media Diet

Gail Collins: What I Read

Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and author most recently of As Texas Goes... buys three newspapers every morning and hopes Jon Stewart won't scoop her at night.

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By Adam Martin

Jul 30, 2012

Bill Keller Is Not Happy About WikiLeaks' Fake Op-Ed

When Bill Keller first commented on the fake op-ed in his name on Sunday morning, he sounded a lot more amused than he did on Sunday night, once WikiLeaks started taking credit for the prank.

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By Connor Simpson

Jul 29, 2012

Someone Seriously Punk'd The New York Times' Bill Keller

Someone's pulled off an elaborate prank on former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller. They built a replica of the Times' website and took passages of an email Keller sent defending Wikileaks and wrote an entire, completely fake Op-Ed. 

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By Adam Martin

Jul 26, 2012

New York Times Could Name a CEO by September

Somewhere in the middle of a New York Times story about the Times Company's $88.1 million quarterly loss, a company source told reporter Amy Chozick that it would name a new CEO as soon as September.

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By John Hudson

Jul 19, 2012

Paul Krugman Is Estonia Enemy No. 1

All it took was a 70-word blog post and now Paul Krugman is a symbol of Western condescension toward the people of Estonia.

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By David Wagner

Jul 16, 2012

Comment of the Day

'I Don't Know If Age Brings Wisdom, But the Deja Vu Is a Given'

Our piece on a recent skirmish in the age-old breastfeeding wars struck a nerve with many of our readers. One commenter provided some personal perspective on the issue. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jul 16, 2012

Buffalo News' Margaret Sullivan Is The New York Times' New Public Editor

Margaret Sullivan, editor and vice president of The Buffalo News who the New York Times named as their public editor. She's the first woman to hold that position and the paper's fifth public editor.

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By Jen Doll

Jul 13, 2012

A Debate About Manliness: Too Little, Too Weak

Inspired by the sight of actors getting facials in a new Morgan Spurlock documentary and male strippers with waxed chests in Magic MikeThe New York Times' "Room for Debate" feature asks "Are Modern Men Manly Enough?"

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jul 13, 2012

The New York Times' PG-13 Story About R-Rated Language

The New York Times had a pretty exciting story on its hands about a London trial featuring a expletive-laden on-field argument between soccer stars Anton Ferdinand and John Terry, but the paper's high standards turns a NSFW cluster-cuss into the most sterile argument ever.

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By Jen Doll

Jul 13, 2012

The Enormous Benefits of a Tiny Apartment

The biggest small story this week has been the news of New York City Mayor Bloomberg's competition to developers to create "micro-apartments" to be built in what's currently a parking lot in Kip's Bay. But however do you furnish such a place? 

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By Serena Dai

Jul 11, 2012

Chart of the Day

The New York Times' New Food Critic Is Full of Stars

Think restaurant critics are unfair? This chart comes from the The Daily Meal which looked carefully at the first six months of new New York Times food critic Pete Wells' reviews and found that he's so far handing out a lot more stars than his predecessors Sam Sifton and Frank Bruni.

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By Eric Randall

Jul 11, 2012

Office-Wide Cleanses Seem Like They Might Get Smelly

If The New York Times is to be believed, groups of co-workers are now bonding by getting together and sharing those trendy all-liquid cleanses, which, if true, strikes us as sort of troubling given the close quarters officemates so often share and the, um, side effects of these diets.

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By Hannah Miet

Jul 3, 2012

New York City is Backwards and Dated (When It Comes to Elections)

New York Times editorial set to print on Tuesday highlights a ridiculous truth: unlike the rest of New York State, New York City still counts its ballots by hand. And not very well.  

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By Connor Simpson

Jun 30, 2012

NBC News Chief Slams The New York Times Over Curry Coverage

The head of NBC News called out The New York Times for their recap of Ann Curry's Today Show goodbye that featured a description of a video package that never aired during the episode. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jun 25, 2012

Who Won in The New York Times-Flipboard Deal?

The New York Times announced that beginning Thursday, that their articles and their paywall were going to hit the Flipboard app. While some are still trying to figure out what the heck Flipboard is, we're trying figure out who got the better end of this deal. 

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By Connor Simpson

Jun 24, 2012

Anthony Shadid Argued with Times Editors Before Entering Syria

Journalist Anthony Shadid, who was killed by a severe asthma attack while in Syria in February, apparently told his wife before making his final trip abroad that if anything happened to him he wanted his death to be blamed on the New York Times

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By John Hudson

Jun 22, 2012

Trimming the Times

Afghan Militants Strike Resort, The IMF Gangs Up on Merkel

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By John Hudson

Jun 21, 2012

Trimming the Times

A Jesuit Priest Leaves Syria, Heart Attacks Can Cause PTSD

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By John Hudson

Jun 19, 2012

Trimming the Times

New Jersey Halfway Houses, Pogue's Tablet Review, NPR's Business Strategy

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By Eric Randall

Jun 14, 2012

What Keeps The New York Times Curse-Free? Editors' Moms

New York Times National Editor Sam Sifton gave media blogger Jim Romenesko a fun insight into the paper of record's long-standing and ever-shifting policies regarding when and how to use profanity.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos and Jen Doll

Jun 13, 2012

The Rise of the Trenemies: America's Most Wanted Trend Killers

As we watched Colin Powell sing "Call Me Maybe" on CBS This Morning, a little piece of us died. These trend-killers, or, as we here dub them "trenemies," must be stopped.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jun 12, 2012

Horace Mann Sexual Abuse History Coming Under Alumni, Prosecutor Scrutiny

With a Bronx District Attorney review on the way and alumni stopping donations and creating advocacy websites, we'd say Amos Kamil's New York Times Magazine story on the alleged decades-long history of sex abuse at the Horace Mann prep school has had a big impact.

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By Jen Doll

Jun 8, 2012

Très Brooklyn N'existe Pas: Parisians Deny Brooklyn-Worship

The phrase of the week was "très Brooklyn," from a piece by Julia Moskin in The New York Times. Except there is no "très Brooklyn," we were informed by a couple Parisians who should know. Never was, hopefully never will be. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 7, 2012

Actually, Silicon Valley Sounds Like an Awful Place to Meet Men

Silicon Valley may have a glut of bachelors, just as Alex Williams describes in his  New York Times article about the successful and single entrepreneurs of the tech world, but from what we know about that part of the world, these men don't sound so appealing.

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By Connor Simpson

Jun 6, 2012

John Kerry Isn't Pleased with The New York Times

John Kerry and the New York Times are having a debate about journalism. It all started when Kerry was asked by CNN's Ted Barrett if he thought The Times should have held their story on President Obama's ordering cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program "for national security reasons." 

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By Hannah Miet

Jun 4, 2012

Protesting the New Orleans Way: A Tailgate Rally to Save the Times-Picayune

Roughly 300 New Orleanians packed into a parking lot Monday evening to express their frustration with the recent announcement that Advance Publications, Inc, owner of the city's Pulitzer-winning newspaper, The Times-Picayune, would cut the paper's print circulation down to three days a week and dramatically shrink its newsroom.

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By John Hudson

May 31, 2012

Politico's Chronic Case of Scoop Envy

For a publication that routinely scoops the competition, it's startling to see Politico's dismissal of well-sourced stories published elsewhere.

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By Connor Simpson

May 28, 2012

Everyone Wants Mayor Bloomberg to Buy the New York Times

A new look at what led to the ouster of the New York Times' former CEO Janet Robinson is renewing interest in a possible sale of the Grey Lady, and the soon-to-be-unemployed Mayor Bloomberg is looking like a prime candidate. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 15, 2012

Analyst: The New York Times Will Be Okay... in 2014

If you were longing to see the day when The New York Times was going to stop hurting and start making enough gains in subscribers  to offset its ad losses, so that you could tell your media pundit friends that newspapers aren't dead, you may want to clear your calendar in 2014.

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By Jen Doll

May 11, 2012

The War on Brunch Is Just a War on Gentrification in Brunch Clothes

In preparation for the weekend, The New York Times dedicates a lot of words to New York City's so-called War on Brunch, a topic we discussed earlier this week.

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By John Hudson

May 9, 2012

'Of Course' Paul Krugman and David Brooks Would Fight Each Other

The New York Times opinion page is undergoing what appears to be a period of diplomatic détente.

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By Adam Martin

May 8, 2012

Meet the Father of Modern Restaurant Criticism

Not having experienced Craig Claiborne's columns for ourselves, it was a little surprising to learn from current New York Times critic Pete Wells just how many of the hallmarks of modern food criticism he's responsible for.

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By John Hudson

May 8, 2012

David Brooks and Paul Krugman Need to Take It Outside

Enough is enough: It's time to settle the passive aggressive fight between New York Times columnists Paul Krugman and David Brooks once and for all. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 8, 2012

Joe Biden Is Like the Second First Lady

For the past four years we've watched the media portray of the Obama-Biden ticket as politics' Odd Couple, and thanks to Mark Leibovich's profile on Joe Biden in The New York Timeswe now know how hard it is for an alpha dog like Biden to be Obama's sidekick.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 3, 2012

The New York Times' Not-So-Brief Affair With Men's Underwear

The New York Times' Eric Wilson asks a silly question today:  "Are men really ready to shop for underwear the way women do?"  Silly, we say, because if men weren't shopping like women, then what would be the reason The Times and Wilson have pumped out trend story after story for the past few years about men's underwear trends?

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By Jen Doll

Apr 23, 2012

Yet Another Take on 'Girls: Other Species Have Female Friendships, Too

Lena Dunham's new HBO series Girls has inspired conversations, backlash, hate, and love, but mostly it's inspired a ton of writing. 

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By John Hudson

Apr 23, 2012

The New York Times Is Obama's Safe Haven

The New York Times has been going easy on President Obama, according to the newspaper's public editor, but studies show the rest of the mainstream media isn't following suit.

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By John Hudson

Apr 20, 2012

Media Diet

Jennifer Granholm: What I Read

Michigan's former governor talks Tosh.O, right-wing radio, and her favorite 22-year-old blogger.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Apr 19, 2012

How Trendy Can a Bald Man Be?

In a bit of a flip, The New York Times decided today that being bald, shaving your head is now a hot men's trend and goes through the pros and cons of going smooth. The biggest con, of course, is that If you go bald, there are so many Style section-approved hair trends you'll miss out on. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Apr 19, 2012

New York Times' Earnings Show Advertising Still Down

In news that isn't going to make journalists or the people who pay them very happy, The New York Times lost 7.2 percent in print advertising revenue and 10.3 percent in digital advertising revenue in the past quarter.

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By Eric Randall

Apr 18, 2012

As Tom Friedman Once Again Calls for a Third Party, Critics Continue to Call Him Out

New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman's call Wednesday for a third party candidate to run for president yielded an unusually high-volume round of mustache-bashing from bloggers, but this is all part of a cycle that's beginning to feel pretty rote.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 13, 2012

Crusading Paper Reveals Secret Hand Controlling Politician's Powerful Friend

Normally, we would applaud The New York Times for stripping away the veneer of public appearances and showing what's really going on, but when it comes to revealing the hand controlling Kermit the Frog, it's kind of a buzz kill.

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