Today’s NYT carries a story on a special deal cooked up by Goldman Sachs to toss some serious walking-around money to Mark Zuckerberg’s already legendary Facebook—about $500 million. According to the article by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Evelyn M. Rusli, “The new money will give Facebook more firepower to steal away valuable employees, develop new…
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Well, at least he didn’t choke on a terrarium!
Over at Slate, heartless Jack Shafer is at it again, pounding the New York Times for running fake “trend” stories on the non-existent rise in teen chokings and the non-existent increase in the number of terrariums, both non-existent trends attributed to the mother of all non-existent trends, Youtube. Not content with trashing the Gray Lady,…
No tits allowed—Steve’s rules
James Joyce must be laughing now—as if he ever stopped. Steve Jobs has found a graphic version of Joyce’s Ulysses too hot for iPad, the New York Times reports. The Times doesn’t say so, but it turns out that Ulysses is also too hot for the Gray Lady, because the comics page provided by the…
America the Innocent, on Occasion
Glenn Greenwald hammers away at a pricelessly asinine article in the New York Times on those wacky Pakistanis, who actually think that the U.S. means them harm! Oy, those paranoid Muslim freaks! Where do they get the idea that the U.S. might, you know, attack and kill innocent people with, you know, predator drones from…
Rock n’ Roll all night long. All night long.
The New York Times begins a seven-part series on master Vermeer forger Han van Meegeren. Yeah. That Han van Meegeren.
NYT gets it right, seriously
Today’s editorial in the New York Times highlights two of the most egregious sores on the American body politic—hatred of foreigners and a grotesquely swollen U.S. penal code. As part of its “We hate immigrants” campaign, the Bush Administration raided a slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa and arrested, not the plant operators for hiring illegal immigrants,…
Anti-Matter! It does exist! Even at the New York Times!
Yes, anti-matter does exist at the New York Times. In fact, the Times conceals within itself an anti-New York Times! Its name is John Tierney, who quite shockingly argues here that you don’t have to do anything those dumb environmentalists tell you to do! OK, it’s not quite that sweeping, but it’s bad enough. Among…
American Women: Poor and Oppressed, or Smart and Rich?
It’s tough bein’ a sister, livin’ in the USA. As the New York Times tells it, “Across the country, women in their prime earning years, struggling with an unfriendly economy, are retreating from the work force, either permanently or for long stretches.” In an “above the fold” July 22 story, “Women Are Now Equal as…
The New York Times, defining democracy down
The current political season is causing some headache, heartache, and heartburn over at the New York Times. In a heartfelt editorial, the Gray Lady complains bitterly that the American people are just not listening to the American people. Even worse, they aren’t listening to the New York Times. “Americans have made it clear that they…