“Climategate” Ignored in Coverage of SEC Ruling

Global warming alarmism took some big hits toward the end of the last year with “climategate” and the collapse of treaty talks in Copenhagen. This might explain why front page coverage of the topic has fallen off quite dramatically in recent weeks. But there’s an interesting New York Times piece in the business section concerning "interpretitive guidance"  the Securities and Exchange Council (SEC)  issued to help companies determine when they should disclose potential risks related to climate ch...

Boudreaux: He is We

From Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek: Here’s a letter that I sent this morning to the New York Times: Paul Krugman wants the House to pass the Senate’s current health-care bill because “the nation is waiting” (“Do the Right Thing,” Jan. 22). Ummm…. no.  Polls show that health-care ‘reform’ of the sort the Senate passed is now overwhelmingly unpopular.  Indeed, as Scott Brown’s victory makes clear, it’s unpopular even in Massachusetts – perhaps the most ‘Progressive’ state in the union.  ...

“Tolerance” Trumps Democracy in Gay Marriage Coverage

With gay activists working to overturn California’s Proposition 8, readers should be aware of the kind of semantics used in The New York Times to put supporters of the ban on gay marriage at a disadvantage.  At the same time, the paper does deserve credit for including both viewpoints in its coverage the competing legal views. For example, a New York Times article that discussed the unlikely partnership of  two attorneys who have joined together to overturn the court decision, despite their i...

Justice Stevens Earns Puff Piece for Dissent in Citizens United

In its glowing tribute to Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, The New York Times is strangely detached from any First Amendment concerns.  There is nothing wrong in principle with calling attention to the legal career of a long-serving Supreme Court justice who is obviously preparing to step down. The coverage of Justice Antonin Scalia’s retirement, looking out over the next 10 years or so, is probably already written. TimesCheck will be sure to file this puff piece away for purposes of comp...

Anti-Female Bias Fuels Sen. Brown’s Massachusetts Victory

Apparently,  a debate has been raging for some time in Massachusetts about the existence of a “glass ceiling” that stands in the way of ambitious, uppity women who want their place in politics,  the New York Times claims in its post-election analysis. Voters did not reject the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate because they wanted fiscal relief, strong counter-terrorism and an end to one-party rule. Instead, they saw fit to embrace a Republican for first time in decades who emphasized his g...