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Asking your mom or dad makes more sense than reading about it in the New York Times which is now the 2nd most reputable paper in the city. I read left over copies of the Times on the subway every day, but it's political agenda is laughable. I read the Times when I am looking for partisanship or statistics to support my own personal liberal agenda, but I certainly don't think I'm getting a full picture when I read an article.

Being mad at the Times for inaccurate, biased or fear mongering articles is like being mad a dog when he nips you. He's a DOG! That's what he does! Being mad at the NYT is just as silly. Trust them like you would Entertainment Tonight.

> conservative activists don't seem to have the
> amount of time on their hands to start websites
> specifically to discredit their ideological opponents
> as the liberal/progressive ones do.

Surely, you're joking.

That's without counting the sea of online polemics & punditry which are, primarily, dedicated to watching and critiquing liberals and liberalism (and occasionally promoting conservatism). Look at Michelle Malkin's blogroll. It's a strange and magical journey of links that, literally, does not end. Truly liberal print polemicism is essentially missing from the online market when compared with Horowitz, Hitchens, TNR, etc... the most stridently anti-conservative polemics come from friggin' libertarians these days. As for the blogosphere and citizen pundits, check out Kos et al. and you'll hit a dead end in terms of organization and persistence. Whether you're liberal or conservative, you're simply off the mark if you believe that American liberals are not completely outgunned in terms of strength of internet presence.

Even the Public Editor of the Times said it was Liberal newspaper.

http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2004/0726.asp

Irony

They are slowly being sorted and distributed either back to their country or origin/capture after no longer being deemed a direct threat.

Unfortunately, that was not the case with Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen of Syrian descent. After being arrested (but not charged) while changing planes at JFK, US officials deported him to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured for over a year. It is not unreasonable to hold the US government complicit in this torture.

Not true either. John Walker Lindh never went to Guantanamo.

I was actually thinking of Jose Padilla, who was held without trial or charge in a military brig for over a year, after being arrested at Chicago O'Hare. What happened to his due process?

Speaking of Bias

It's not just Fox News, it's ALL media, they just try and even the score. BTW how is Al Frakenstein's talk show going ? NPR gonna have to bail him out with buckets of money > You know no REAL liberal talk show can survive on it's own don't you ?

Republicans for DEAN in 2004, let's see a another meltdown on TV !!

• When fabrications appear in the Times, we find out about them first from the Times' open admissions and internal investigations.

• When fabrications appear on Fox News, we find out about them (if we do at all) from sources other than Fox.

I don't know to what you are referring to here, but please, out with these fabrications that Fox News is guilty of. Are they anywhere, at all, comparable to the years of blatant plagiarism and faked stories that Jayson Blair committed and were they known about for years internally and covered up?

• This distinction is to the Times' credit, and speaks to its greater value of journalistic integrity.

What incredible journalistic integrity! The Metro editor, a YEAR before the story recommended immediate dismissal:

By April 2002, Jonathan Landman, the paper's Metro editor, was prompted to send an email, apparently to senior Times employees. "We have to stop Jayson from writing for the paper," it read. "Right now." Blair went on leave and came back, according to reports, on the understanding that he would be writing smaller, closely monitored assignments. "

But, it seems, the abuses continued and actually got far worse in the upcoming year, falsely reporting on the Washingon area sniper and Jessica Lynch. Hardly, smaller assignments and apparently without close monitoring. Yes, that's a record to be proud of, alright.