Comments on: Blame it on the Bosa Nova

By: Nomorelies

Nomorelies — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:29:40 +0000

Why does the NYTimes hate America?

By: bkochba

bkochba — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 02:04:53 +0000

weltanschauung.

Your spellchecker works for the NYTimes.

By: Skookumchuk

Skookumchuk — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:23:04 +0000

Calico Jack:

And that is why we canned our NYT subscription with the tacit acquiescence of the wife – a major tactical victory for me, I tell ya) in favor of the WSJ starting next week.

(I should have picked a moniker like Calico Jack, sort of a SASS type name . . .)

By: Calico Jack

Calico Jack — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:03:23 +0000

The major differece between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal was pointed out above by jerry: the NYT will by default take any position that happens to oppose Bush/GOP. The WSJ, however, does not have this kind of ‘party line’, as illustrated by its weekend editorial warning the GOP on overspending.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:40:14 +0000

“As long as the UN talks about peace, democracy, human rights, economic development, etc…”

DEMOCRACY is certainly an operative word here. What are the obstacles to restricting U.N. membership to democratically elected governments? And further to restricting the security council to countries with a minimum track record of democratic elections? Why aren’t there some minimal standards in terms of democracy, human rights and so on for membership? And how could the Dems possibly argue with that? Everyone talks about the need for UN reform. It is an understatement to say that I am ignorant here but isn’t this a goal that both parties could agree upon and work towards? (I will say in advance – do please pardon my naivete!)

By: jerry

jerry — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:34:07 +0000

Kevin:

You are right. Saul Bellow was ignored for years by the Pulitzer Committee because of his political view. Bellow got his Pulitzer only after the committee was embarrased by his Nobel Prize for Literature.

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:52:38 +0000

The NYT knows all about setting up fall guys. When the Jayson Blair scandal first broke, the first Raines and Sulzberger tried to do was pin it on the African-American editor underneath them, when it was Raines pushing Blair along the whole time…

By: photoncourier.blogspot.com

photoncourier.blogspot.com — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:27:07 +0000

A major reason that so many liberal intellectuals continue to support the UN–regardless of its actual behavior–is that the UN uses the right *words.* As long as the UN talks about peace, democracy, human rights, economic development, etc etc, it doesn’t matter what they actually *do.*

This is very similar to the reason so many liberal intellectuals supported the Soviet Union and Maoist China.

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:24:58 +0000

If this is being killed,how many editors and sub-editors does it take and who are they?

Couldn’t Miss Rossett be co-opted by the blogosphere,there is no reason why in years to come a blog prize for investigative journalism should not be as prestigious as a Pulitzer.

Why think small, this IS the Revolution.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:53:06 +0000

Duke:

I hear the LA Times is going after Fox. That might turn out to be a mistake.

I think what both the New York and LA Times are forgetting is that if they had covered the story themselves it would not have been left to people like Fox and the WSJ to do it.