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To: Carolyn who wrote (813)	7/9/2014 11:09:26 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

New York Times Forced to Correct Anti-Israel Editorial Editorial board errs on claim that Netanyahu was silent on murder of teen http://freebeacon.com/culture/new-york-times-forced-to-correct-anti-israel-editorial/ July 9, 2014 The New York Times has issued a correction to its claim that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took days to condemn the murder of Arab teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, when he actually responded immediately to what he called “the abominable murder.” *The New York Times* was called out by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) for its false characterization of Netanyahu.** CAMERA wrote in the Times of Israel that Netanyahu had actually commented multiple times on the murder, nearly a week prior to the New York Times false statement. Subtitled “Can Israeli and Palestinian Leaders End the Revenge Attacks?”, the editorial ought to have been particularly precise in reporting the leaders’ respective words and deeds. And, yet, the author/s grossly erred: “On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, after days of near silence, condemned that killing and promised that anyone found guilty would ‘face the full weight of the law.’” Netanyahu did not remain silent for days concerning the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. The Israeli prime minister spoke out against the killing of Abu Kheir from July 2, the very same day of the murder. As The Times’ own Isabel Kershner reported: “On Wednesday, after the body of the Palestinian teenager was found in the woods, the prime minister called on Israelis to obey the law, and asked investigators to quickly look into what he called ‘the abominable murder.’” The next day on July 3, speaking at the home of U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro for a July 4 celebration, Netanyahu again condemned the murder as “a despicable crime” and pledged that everything was being done to find the criminals. A firework celebration was canceled at the event out of respect to the victims of senseless murders of Khdeir and the murder of three Israeli teens by Hamas. The following correction has been added from the New York Times editorial board: Correction: July 9, 2014 An article on Monday about the arrest of six Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian teenager referred incorrectly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the killing of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. On the day of the killing, Mr. Netanyahu’s office issued a statement saying he had told his minister for internal security to quickly investigate the crime; it is not the case that “days of near silence” passed before he spoke about it. The error was repeated in an editorial on Tuesday. The phrase “after days of near silence” has also been removed from the online version of the editorial.

To: Carolyn who wrote (813)	10/31/2014 7:14:08 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

New York Times Company Reports a Quarterly Loss of 9 Million ............................................................................................................. NY Times ^ \| 10/30/14 \| RAVI SOMAIYA The New York Times Company said on Thursday that its third-quarter revenue increased by less than 1 percent from a year ago, as growth in its digital business offset declines in print circulation and advertising. The Times planned to spur revenue growth in 2014 with the introduction of several new digital subscription products, but those products have not caught on as the company had hoped. Total revenue during the third quarter increased 0.8 percent to $365 million, compared with $362 million in the same period last year. In a call with investors, the company’s chief executive, Mark Thompson, said that the new products reflected a desire to be “unashamedly experimental and willing to adapt.” Its chief financial officer, James M. Follo, said that the company was “still in the early stages of a multiyear transformation.” The company posted a third-quarter operating loss of $9 million, compared with an operating profit of $12.9 million in the same period of 2013. (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

To: Carolyn who wrote (813)	10/31/2014 7:20:18 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

Time Is Running Short For The New York Times .................................................................................. Personal Finance 10/28/2014 forbes.com The New York Times will announce its third quarter earnings on October 30. It’s make or break time. On October 1 President and CEO Mark Thompson said 100 plus staff cuts would “safeguard the long-term profitability of The Times,” and were not the result of any short-term business difficulties. The Times seems more confident chopping its way to survival than developing new revenue sources, and sticking by them, until they deliver profitability on a consistent basis. The Times has not recorded consistent profit growth for five years and can’t realistically expect it again soon. For every bit of good news its executives cling to, there’s worse, sometimes much worse, bad news to go with it. That’s because its balance sheet is in worse shape than executives will admit and its proven ability to embrace change has been limited. The shares have taken a roller-coaster ride over the last five years. The share price is now closer to its 52-week low (11.22) than its high (17.37). When dividends were reinstated last year the shares got a boost but that artificial high wore off within one twelve-month cycle. Source: Yahoo Finance on October 27, 2014 Analysts expect the company to earn $0.00 per share in the 3Q, according to FactSet, and 0.37 for the fiscal year 2014, on a non-GAAP basis. Circulation and Subscription Revenue Is Up But Can It Last? The good news is digital subscription numbers were up during the second quarter and the company said in its SEC filing at the time of the staff cuts it had “made progress” on that front again in Q3. If its prediction of more than 40,000 net new digital subscribers for third quarter is realized, it will be the largest number of quarterly additions since 2012. The bad news is the Times has little patience for what it takes to realize the benefits of its significant digital investments. During the second quarter earnings call, executives said NYT Now, NYT Opinion and Times Premier represented the majority of the subscription revenue growth for that period. Thomson admitted the NYT Now and Opinion apps would have to “market to and reach brand new audiences, stand out on their own and compete in a crowded marketplace,” to be successful. This would “take some time” and the company would have to “build and flex some new marketing muscles, “ to make it happen. Instead of sticking with them, Thomsen cut the experiments short. NYT Opinion was be mothballed after a trial of only four months. NYT Now will become a smartphone-only product. Print circulation revenue was slightly higher in the second quarter too, 1.4%, driven by an increase in home-delivery prices that offset lower actual print circulation numbers. Unfortunately, the Times can’t count on raising print subscription rates every quarter or even every year.

To: Carolyn who wrote (813)	11/18/2014 8:44:06 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

CNN Apologizes for 'Israel Shoots Palestinians' Headline ............................................................................................................. Arutz Sheva ^ \| 18/11/14 \| Ari Soffer CNN has apologized for one of several errors in its reporting of Tuesday morning's brutal terrorist attack in Jerusalem. In one particularly jarring error, the headline presented for the story broadcast live to tens of millions of viewers read: "Israeli... Police Shot, Killed 2 Palestinians." The headline sparked outrage, with one prominent Israeli activist calling for the CNN reporter responsible to have his press credentials removed. Several hours and countless angry responses later, the international news corporation finally apologized. "As CNN updated its reporting on the terrorist attack on the synagogue in Jerusalem earlier today, our coverage did not immediately reflect the fact that the two Palestinians killed were the attackers. We erred and regret the mistake," said a statement. But the particular headline in question was just one of a raft of CNN bloopers surrounding the attack - leading many Israelis suspicious that the "mistake" had more to do with the corporation's editorial line than human error, with some accusing reporters of bending over backwards to play-down Palestinian violence. One particularly embarrassing, headline aired shortly after the story broke, read "Deadly Attack on Jerusalem Mosque," while another seemed to play down the role of the "2 Palestinians" (i.e. terrorists) who were killed by police by equating their death with those of their victims, blandly proclaiming: "4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians Dead in Jerusalem." Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press Office (GPO) in response to the headlines. "There is no reality elsewhere in the world where journalists can report a terror attack in this style," he stated. "This rule should also apply to foreign reporters in Israel. There is good and there is bad, there are killers and there are victims." "The media arena in recent years has become an equally important battlefield for Israel, and it must use all the tools at its disposal to demand certain baselines in its media coverage," he continued. "Coverage like this legitimizes the next murder; whoever loses in this loses the next war as well." "CNN's strange headline is a direct continuation of a series of other reports in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that appeared recently," the letter said, noting by way of example the report on the car rampage near the Jerusalem light rail last month by the Associated Press which began with the title "Israeli police shot a man in East Jerusalem." ..... (Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...

To: Carolyn who wrote (813)	11/19/2014 4:33:39 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

The Overlooked Irony of Jonathan Gruber's Candid Statements ................................................................................................................................ 11/18/2014 MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber has been captured on a number of video recordings stating that the Democrats relied upon and exploited the “stupidity of the American voter” to pass Obamacare. But American voters are not really stupid – not most of them anyway. Even the average Democrat voter is not stupid. Rather, Democrat voters are badly misinformed because they rely on the leftist media for information and opinion. So what Gruber and the Democrats really exploited was not the stupidity of the American voter, but corrupt and dishonest reporting by leftist journalists. Proof is that it was corrupt journalism which was what the Democrats really took advantage of is that voters who relied on the alternative media – internet news outlets, Rush Limbaugh, FreeRepublic, etc. – were not fooled. It was only Democrat voters who were fooled. The average reader of the NYT votes like an idiot precisely because he reads the NYT. His view of reality is distorted by the lies he reads and the unavailability to him of facts the NYT considers “inconvenient.” The same goes for CBSMSNBCABCWaPo, etc., etc. The world is too complex for the average citizen to be fully informed on the details of every important issue. The fact that the average voter does not know, to take one of Professor Gruber's examples, the incidence of taxation on employer-provided health insurance, is not a reflection on the intelligence of the voter, but a reflection on the state of the press. The role of the press should be to report and disclosure the nature of the issues which the country faces. As is well known, the dominant, corporate, leftist press did not merely fail to report accurately on Obamacare, but affirmatively misled the public and suppressed the truth. So this is the overlooked irony of Professor Gruber's disclosures: although he asserts that the Democrats exploited the stupidity of the average (Democrat) American voter, what they really exploited was the dishonesty of the monolithic leftist press.

To: Carolyn who wrote (813)	2/22/2015 2:53:35 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

NBC’s Engel: ISIS Murdered Obama’s Middle East Policy on Libyan Beach .............................................................................................................. breitbart.com by Pam Key 22 Feb 2015 Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” reporting on the impact of ISIS’s mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya last week, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said, “Something else was murdered 21 times on that terrible day on the beach, the hopes and dreams of the Arab Spring, and with them, the U.S. administration’s Middle East policy.” “Something else was murdered 21 times on that terrible day on the beach the hopes and dreams of the Arab Spring, and with them, the U.S. administration’s Middle East policy,” Engel said. “Some experts are now calling Libya the Somalia of the Mediterranean, a lawless land across from Europe’s shores. Libya was the Obama Administration’s first war of choice.” He added, “Then the U.S. left Libya to the ‘Mad Max’ militia men who had taken it over … several U.S. Military officials who I’ve been speaking with have privately expressed a great amount of frustration at what they see as a lack of clarity about the U.S. Strategy against ISIS. When I ask our NBC military analyst, Colonel Jack Jacobs about the strategy, he paraphrased Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”