Probably came from "ihateisrael.com".
Speaking of not being able to handle criticism. The N.Y. Times is about the most sensitive, unable to examine themselves honestly organization in the county.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
N.Y. Times Dumps Columnist for Exposing Bias
newsmax.com
The New York Times Magazine has dumped conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan, whose Web site frequently exposes the Times' left-wing bias.
"The popular Weblog writer says the directive came from Executive Editor Howell Raines," Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz wrote today.
Sullivan, "perhaps the country's most prominent gay journalist," told Kurtz by e-mail, "Not writing for the New York Times is a better fate than not writing what I believe on my blog."
The Times, which gets snotty when targets of its stories won't talk to the media, refused to respond to inquiries from the Post.
A recent classic by Sullivan, after the Times ran a Page One story claiming "rising criticism" of President Bush's policy on the Middle East: "Where's the rising tide of criticism? Are the Times' reporters referring to their own editorial pages? This line has been peddled now for weeks in the Times' 'news' columns."
And there was this gem about the newspaper's coverage of the media's Florida recount project: "If it keeps blaring non-stories like this to appease its leftist Manhattan base, and maintains its close to unanimous chorus of editorial and op-ed hostility to President Bush, it will become less authoritative. People like me who care about it and groan about some of its obvious news bias will simply stop reading it."
Kurtz wrote, "Sullivan also mounted something of a crusade against liberal Times columnist Paul Krugman for accepting consulting fees from Enron before joining the newspaper."
The Times isn't the only left-wing media outlet that can dish out criticism but can't take it. The New Republic, Kurtz noted, dumped Sullivan's weekly column after he mocked Al Gore, a longtime friend of Martin Peretz, the magazine's owner. |
