Category: New York Times

Judge Blocks New York Times From Publishing Project Veritas Documents

A New York judge on Thursday ordered the New York Times to appear in court next week and defend publishing legal documents from Project Veritas and, in the meantime, stop publishing the privileged materials. Justice Charles Wood said he may order the paper to remove all references to or descriptions to Project Veritas’s privileged attorney-client information…


When Will the New York Times and the Washington Post Return their 2018 Pulitzers?

To anyone paying the slightest attention to the indictments so far resulting from John Durham’s investigation, the still-posted announcement of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize awards in national reporting to the staffs of the New York Times and the Washington Post now reads like an entry from the Babylon Bee: “For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage…


Prosecution of Project Veritas Sounds Warning About Two-Tier Justice and Big State Corruption

Commentary Whatever else can be said about the FBI’s vendetta against James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, his investigative journalism enterprise, it is a useful reminder of two things: 1) that we increasingly live in a two-tier society in which the lower tier can expect the arbitrary intrusion of all the coercive elements of the state,…


Former NYT Columnist Nicholas Kristof Announces Run for Oregon Governor

Former New York Times Opinion columnist and foreign correspondent Nicholas Kristof announced his bid for Oregon’s governor on Wednesday. “I’ve never run for political office in my life,” Kristof, who is running as a Democrat, said in a campaign video posted on social media, expressing it as an asset. He said he felt compelled to…


Details in Michael Sussmann’s Indictment Reveal Conspiracy Against Trump

News Analysis On Sept. 17, former Perkins Coie partner and Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was arraigned on a single-count charge of lying to the FBI. The charge stems from special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe that plagued the presidency of Donald Trump. The indictment of Sussmann, a cybersecurity specialist,…


Project Veritas Prepares to Depose New York Times After NY Supreme Court Ruling

Journalism watchdog Project Veritas can depose New York Times employees in what could become a landmark case for defamation, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled this week. New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood on March 20 ruled against the paper’s request to dismiss a lawsuit from Project Veritas over stories that the watchdog…


New York Times Reporter Deletes Tweets Suggesting Trump Supporters Are ‘Enemies of the State’

A New York Times reporter, Katie Benner, deleted a series of tweets that suggested supporters of former President Donald Trump should be called “enemies of the state,” saying that they were “unclearly worded.” The series of now-deleted posts began by saying that “today’s #January6thSelectCommittee underscores the America’s current, essential [national security] dilemma: Work to combat…


New York Times Issues Correction After Claiming Satire Website Babylon Bee ‘Trafficked in Misinformation’

The New York Times recently updated a piece on Facebook’s moderation of satire, removing a claim that Babylon Bee “trafficked in misinformation.” The New York Times, in the middle of a court battle over allegedly defamatory articles, which, according to a judge, said reporters failed to note that they inserted opinions, made the update and…


Babylon Bee Lawyers Demand Retraction From New York Times Over ‘Misinformation’ Claim: CEO

The CEO of satirical news website Babylon Bee confirmed the company’s lawyers sent a demand letter to the New York Times in June demanding a retraction over what the Bee said was an allegedly defamatory hit-piece. “Yesterday our counsel sent a letter to @nytimes demanding a retraction. We took this action because their article was—and…


Sinead O’Connor, Felt-Truths, and Media Propaganda

Commentary A puff piece on Sinead O’Connor scheduled to appear in The New York Times on Sunday and timed to coincide with the publication of her memoir, with the Borat-like title of “Rememberings,” includes this little jog to the reader’s own rememberings. “If you remember two things about her,” writes Amanda Hess for the Times…