in a nutshell, ideological spinmongering, or even more simply put, propaganda

Those of us not subscribers were unable to read the entire article. I have read this story in other sources, however, and knowing what I know about the leadership of Home Depot and corporate employers' fears of EFCA, I find it persuasive.

carefully written, clearly sourced, and reinforced by danner's previous writings and reports by many other sources, including the torturer John Kiriakou, cited within the article.

it provides a succinct rundown on the great jump in hunger, or 'food insecurity' in the US in light of current economic conditions and the growing need for food assistance and the inability of the food stamp and charity programs to satisfy the demand.

a human interest story, no more. If it is meant to prove that the US doesn't just stomp in and lay waste the are but actually tries to make nice and even offers more US taxpayer dollars as restitution for property and lives destroyed by the taxpayer-funded bombs dropped, point taken. Question: Would such a tack be welcome in relation to our war in Colombia and the FARC's drug-dealing operations? Afghanistan supplies some vast percentage of the world's heroin

The story is typically well written for the Times, but the politics of this region are too tangled for me to have a serious opinion. Karzai's government has no purchase outside Kabul, and it would not surprise me if the ISI were trying to kill him, but I for one would not know how to judge the truth of Karzai's accusation.

explains a strategy; in effect a press release. As someone else wrote, kinda old news on the blogs, recycled for the Village

The only fault with this excellent screed is the underlying assumption that any TV organization *could* conduct a fair, important, or relevant debate. The commercial broadcast media have managed to destroy the possibility of any important issues' being discussed or even mentioned without bizarre , invariably right-of-center slant.

what can one add? FAIR gets the goods on this shameful but not particularly unusual faux event. And the article supports its points with background data. terrific.

Marc Cooper may have THOUGHT he was explaining why people now in the mainstream might in the 60s have been associated with radical leftists of one sort or another, and therefore one should take such accusations with a grain of salt, but after HuffPo slapped that headline on it, it is not worth reading. Arianna hates Hillary, so this is the wrong place to look for any kind of serious discussion. (About pretty much anything, come to think of it: it's a tabloid website!)

A good survey but the program was dismissable because it wrote off the idea of single-payer, with no other reason except that 'Americans wouldn't go for it." So the program supported the idea of insurance intermediaries, a ridiculous development in the world history of medical delivery.

Thanks to the Times for not only reporting on this but running it as their lead story. When you think things can't get any worse, they get worse. What next? Robbing the poor to line the pockets of the rich? oh wait....

a concise and pointed thrust at the deeply ideological frame of 'no ideology' that cripples the self-described mission of Pro Publica and limits it to the remediation of partial wrongs in the nonpolitical parts of daily life; that is what 'investigative journalism' became in the post-watergate, Geraldo Rivera era : go after nursing homes, not politicians and governments. The NY Times actually does a very good job in this arena (see their story on RR grade crossings as anexample)-- ... More »

straightforward report of the reaction of the "UN's chief torture investigator," a special rapporteur on torture, There are errors in it, however, or verbal dodges. waterboarding is not simply 'often described as a form of torture' but is widely acknowledged legally and otherwise as torture, and the technique does not 'create a sensation of drowning' but is a form of drowning that is controlled by the torturer.

childish and clueless. the few good insights are buried in a sea of drivel. As usual , also, poor Hillary comes in as the baseline demon of the piece. Also, nonsensical to put Obama and McCain in the same bag. This is what passes for blogging from the networks--a very low standard indeed.

1. this is not "the new york times," newspaper of record, it is a blog, a presumably experimental toe in the internet water fo the NYT. Who knows whether Santora is edited or...? 2. Newstrust is lazily relying on Wikipedia (!) to describe the Times, which it obligingly calls a newspaper, but this post is not from the newspaper. 3. I have no basis for reviewing this one liner. It;s great if Tom keane stiffs Rudy, but this blog is in fact not a story, more like the kind of thing we ... More »

a tiresome bunch of blather from a tiresome old wag. I have yet to read one single thing from this man that had substance rather than hand wringing. The classic Beltway pontificator, if a low-decibel one. I am not particularly a Hilary supporter but this column advances the discourse not one whit.

An old story, worth repeating but not worth any mention or review here at all, imho. Trivial in the extreme.

i'm with dwight; why was this posted here? it is a fund-raising promo, a place marker as it were. it is not Palast's fault that it got posted here, and i am just positive he must have some more substantive journalism on this issue posted somewhere on his site. The story is manifestly true, however. The story of the Venezuelan 'oiligarchy' is a sorry one indeed. Too bad Hugo is setting himself up to be president for life.

Our political culture is scourged by right-wing tactics to demagogue and lie their way into power. The shameless right and their extremely wealthy supporters control the airwaves, the laws about fairness in broadcasting and rules against media consolidation have been canceled or weakened, the right wingers have huge amounts of cash and absolutely no shame about using lies and innuendoes-- as witness their long history of so-called dirty tricks revealed during the Watergate scandal. ... More »

addresses a candidate's campaign claim and invstiagtes its sources and figures. {So now more peoplel know that Rudy is a liar. Just like New Yorkers do.}

this is a blog, not a story; it can' t usefully be rated for journalism, really. It is a report of remarks made by someone with the training and authority to discuss something thaht long ago (measured in centuries) has been universally recognized as torture. The fact that this point needs to be bolstered at all and that the marine officer talking about is is under sneak attack by Republican aides is the important hook here, not the status of torturing people by controlled drowning.

it's called piling on.. unless NewsTrust simply didn't post FactCheck's analyses of all the other candidates.In fact this degree of "analysis" of a single candidate's utterances is deeply troubling. As was the tone-deaf portion about Biden's quip. These journalists don't seem to be able to see the forest for the trees. And I am NOT a Hillary supporter.

The Times didn't bother to send a reporter cover the story of multiple protests marches in multiple cities but used a wire service story. And it was buried in the paper here in NYC. Could the antiwar efforts be more marginalized while still being mentioned?

i don´t know why one has to catalogue o´reilly´s errors & racist falacies. they are well known and he is not worth paying attention to. This is not journalism, it is an attempt at a corrective to the schtick for which the man is employed and does not in any way rise above that or treat it as the type of phenomenon it is. Instead, it tries to employ the same jokey, fake folksy rhetorical ironies that he does. why bother? the people who listen to him are not really going to be ... More »

this was so abysmal i felt like crying reading it. Pelley sounds like, well,a complete stooge, and ahmadinejad, not my favorite leader, seems rational and reasonable. Our media, esp. TV, continue to be the hounds of hell toward the government´s enemies, catapulting the propaganda, and to be lapdogs toward the govt. and its allies. and thus has it ever been, at least in my memory. TAKE 2: I wish i had the time to go over this point by point to show you, fabrice, how Pelley ... More »

shake this one out and nothing falls to the ground. far too speculative, depending on 2 unnamed sources and a very poor journalist, joe klein... ultirmately it is saying that cheney might get his wish for war by forcing a confrontation, which voids the whole argument that it isn´t gonna happen. so, is it or isn´t it?

Although the New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/science/19language.html) was better, this short version, based on a report covered in many media, is fine and gives structure to a well-known, long-documented phenomenon, which is the disappearance of languages spoken by small, generally tribal groups as a result of advancing urbanization and globalization.

knocked my sox off. Reminds me that most of our news is based on invention and press release (as opposed to investigative journalism, and this story by Palast makes it seems simple, if not easy) . But you knew that, didn't you?

my reaction: yippee! even though I tend to buy the Times (I live in NYC). But the article reveals more than we might have known otherwise about the privileging of ad revenue & about ad placements: “But our projections for growth on that paid subscriber base were low, compared to the growth of online advertising” "Experts say that opinion columns are unlikely to generate much ad revenue, but that they can drive a lot of reader traffic to other, more lucrative parts of The Times ... More »