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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (188693)	10/3/2001 3:02:05 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

>>please show me an example of liberal bias in the Times news coverage and tell me what newspaper you consider to be better anywhere in the country......in the world..... There are too many to document. But just last week the NYTimes got caught distorting, its "exclusive" that Greenspan opposed corporate tax cuts. He did and does not. No other paper made that erroneous claim. But the NYTimes has a clear agenda. In fact, a Fortune editor noted that Greenspan favors the elimination the capital gains tax and the corporate income tax as both hurt the economy. The NYTimes is fairly renown for its bias - its parochial Manhattan socialist view of the world that infects most of its reporting; and is a very shoddy paper in many respects. As for better papers, there are so very many. The WSJ is a better paper, so is The Times of London.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (188693)	10/3/2001 3:21:48 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

"Why would you ask me that?......" I asked because it looked like you were implying that TAW should not use pix that were credited to the NYT because he felt the paper was liberal. Please excuse me if I mis-interpreted your post. If I did interpret it correctly I was basically saying that pictures were not liberal, even to someone who views the paper as liberal. As far as examples go, I will keep my eyes open for examples, but am not going to go searching for one. The most liberal paper that I have been exposed to is the SF Chronicle, which I have cancelled. I read the Contra Costa Times now (used to get both), which is not too bad, but it is a lightweight in the world of newspapers. Not traveling as much as I used to, but I enjoy USA Today when I am traveling. Seems pretty balanced.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (188693)	10/3/2001 3:30:09 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769668

J-f, none of the photographs that I have seen at security.com came from the New York Times. Some of the graphics and interpretations on the space photos came from the times. That's the stuff the times doctored onto the photographs. But I have no reason to believe of disbelieve what the times added. The point of the photographs is the the represent what is commercially available and this is far from what the military has. tom watson tosiwmee

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (188693)	10/3/2001 3:36:09 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769668

The bias of the NYTimes: Concerning the reason the US still had no UN ambassador at the time of the 9/11 attack - extreme left Dems in the Senate refused to hold a vote - and the rapid confirmation they made afterwards, the biased NYTimes wrote as "news" the following: "Mr. Negroponte's delayed nomination was initially perceived as a sign of the Bush administration's disdain for the United Nations." The passive voice hides any mention of who the perceiver was. Except that we know that its probably Alfred E. Newman or other editorialists speaking, twisting the truth that Dem opposition was to blame. There was nothing "delayed" about his nomination, he was nominated months before. Partisan Dems delayed his confirmation.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (188693)	10/3/2001 3:52:16 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

The biased NYTimes: The NYTimes reported that California's "Three Strikes" law has had no significant effect on the state's decline in crime -- the entity that did the study, the Sentencing Project, was said to be "a nonprofit research group". The biased NYTimes failed to detail the true nature of that group - which is committed to opposing jail sentencing and promoting alternatives such as non-jail sentencing.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (188693)	10/3/2001 3:57:36 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769668

The shoddy NYTimes: In the Metro Section of the 8/25/01 NYTimes, Page, B4, in an article about the Battle of Brooklyn, in 1776, the Times claims "the British forces totaled 430 ships and 45,000 soldiers and sailors - the biggest British expeditionary force until Normandy in WWll." The British, in 1915, had 560,000 men in France and another 80,000 in the British landing force at Gallipoli, according to "Winston S. Churchill, The Challenge of War," Martin S. Gilbert, Houghton Mifflin, 1971, (page 443) . In 1942, Field Marshall Montgomery's 8th Army, in Africa, had 195,000 troops, according to "Rommel as a Military Commander," by Robert Lewin, Barnes & Noble Books, 1968, (page 170).