The New York Times

Summary (posts follow):

"America's Paper of Record", which is now owned in part by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Their immigration stories cannot be trusted because they're always incredibly slanted in support of illegal activity and are frequently little more than editorials disguised as news stories. For examples, see the Nina Bernstein entry and the other posts linked below. A February 2008 post linked to some prime examples of the NYT's reporting on immigration.

See also the evisceration of various NYT editorials.

Last modified Mar 17, 2009

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Paul Krugman promotes a WPA; why not simply enforce our immigration laws? - 11/06/2009

... economist Paul Krugman of the New York Times offers "Why not a WPA?" (link) in which he promotes - while maintaining plausible-to-his-followers deniability - the creation of something like FDR's Works Progress Administration: You can make a pretty good case that just employing a lot of people directly would be a lot more cost-effective... So why aren’t we doing this? Politics, of...

Roundup of legal and illegal immigrant coverage by Obamacare - 11/04/2009

Julia Preston of the New York Times has a roundup of the current state of Obamacare as it relates to coverage of legal immigrants and illegal aliens here. While near the beginning she does try to pretend that the Democrats wants to prevent illegal aliens from receiving benefits, she also includes quotes from those working to stiffen the identification requirements and correctly pointing out what t...

What Brian Stelter and the New York Times don't want you to know - 10/24/2009

... rarely leave comments on the New York Times' blogs because they pre-moderate the comments and very few of mine have been approved. Whether the comments contain a link or not, they tend to point out how the author is wrong or isn't telling the whole truth, and in NYT land that's a no-no. So it was on Thursday's "CNN’s Special on Latinos Stirs Protests Against Anchor"...

Gutierrez unveils immigration "reform" bill principles at Washington DC rally (RI4A, CHC,NCIC,religious leaders) - 10/13/2009

... Caucus). Per Ian Urbina of the New York Times (link): Tuesday’s event was sponsored by various immigrant advocacy groups, including the Reform Immigration For America campaign, the National Capital Immigration Coalition, and Families United/Familias Unidas. It attracted convoys of buses, vans and cars carrying more than 3,000 protesters from at least 17 states.

Obama admin preparing USCIS for amnesty (millions of visas, comprehensive immigration reform) - 10/03/2009

... article author Julia Preston of the New York Times says that the preparations being made now "contrast" with those made by the Bush administration. I don't know what she's talking about, and she probably doesn't either. See 2006's "Bush Admin Hiring For Guest Workers Program as if Done Deal" for some of the preparations they were making, and see also Burden...

Immigration Policy Ctr: U.S. lost Olympic Games bid due to "anti-visitor policy", "broken immigration system" - 10/02/2009

... with Michelle Higgins of the New York Times with this oft-quoted passage (link): Syed Shahid Ali, an I.O.C. member from Pakistan, in the question-and-answer session following Chicago’s official presentation, pointed out that entering the United States can be "a rather harrowing experience." The story has also been re-transmitted by Andrea Nill of ThinkProgress (thinkprogress.org/2009/...

Teen unemployment rate 25.5% in August 2009, highest since 1948. Can we enforce our immigration laws now? - 9/27/2009

... High" by Catherine Rampell of the New York Times (link). She lists several possible reasons for the high rate but - not surprisingly - doesn't mention immigration. She quotes Andrew Sum of Northeastern University and, since he's written in the past about the role of massive immigration on teen employment, it would be surprising that he didn't mention something about that. Whet...

David Herszenhorn of NYT misleads about ObamaCare - 9/10/2009

David Herszenhorn of the New York Times offers "Check Point: Examining Obama’s Assertions" (link). He lists some of the things Obama was truthful and not truthful about in last night's speech; reviewing all of those for accuracy is left as an exercise. However, he leads off with three paragraphs (two below) in which he falsely claims that illegal aliens won't be able to get c...

New York Times now admits: "A Basis Is Seen for Some Health Plan Fears Among the Elderly" - 8/22/2009

... Rutenberg and Jackie Calmes of the New York Times offered "False 'Death Panel' Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots" (link): The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama’s health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks... Advanced even this week by Republican...

Sources for DHS rightwing extremism report: ADL, SPLC, NYT, LAT, Dave Weigel... - 8/12/2009

A group called Americans for Limited Government filed a FOIA request to get the sources that the Department of Homeland Security used in the "rightwing extremist" report that came out earlier this year. The government has responded with a list that includes some questionable to very questionable internet sources rather than, for instance, actual FBI investigations and the like. Per the g...

People for the American Way, TPM begin personal destruction campaign against Frank Ricci (what you can do) - 7/11/2009

... 9th, Alison Leigh Cowan of the New York Times offered "Here Comes the Judge (Before Sotomayor)" (link). It contains links to the various documents in the 1995 case, but she mainly concentrates on a conflict of interest issue. It appears to be more a case of reporting than a smear attempt, although the exact motivation of course can't be determined. If someone starts pushing the iss...

Some police chiefs support "reform", oppose 287g; Damien Cave/NYT misleads about immigration law - 7/02/2009

Damien Cave of the New York Times offers "Big-City Police Chiefs Urge Overhaul of Immigration Policy" (link). Several police chiefs of major cities have reiterated their support for comprehensive immigration reform and their opposition to the 287g program [1]. Their supposed solution would only solve the situation temporarily, if that. The "reform" they support would lead to mo...

Wikipedia helps NYT hide truth about David Rohde kidnapping; "Reliable Sources" - 6/29/2009

... last year, David Rohde of the New York Times was kidnapped in Afghanistan and, in order not to increase his worth to his captors, the NYT worked with other news organizations to keep the news secret. Another source that agreed to keep it secret was Jimmy Wales, head of Wikipedia. The details - at least from the NYT side of things - is in "Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia" by Ric...

Sonia Sotomayor, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, and more quotes (on PRLDEF board for 12 years) - 6/13/2009

This post will round up Sonia Sotomayor's involvement with the far-left, illegal immigration-supporting Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), nowadays called "LatinoJustice PRLDEF". See below for some of the details on her involvement with that group and even more questionable quotes from her.

Sonia Sotomayor admits she was an "affirmative action baby"; said it's "critical that we promote diversity"; there are "cultural biases built into testing" - 6/11/2009

... with the Washington Post and the New York Times, we might be able to block Sonia Sotomayor. As it is, even Charlie Savage of the NYT offering "Videos Shed New Light on Sotomayor’s Positions" (link) probably won't have much of an impact unless regular citizens - i.e., you - send that article to everyone you know and encourage them to do the same. The way to block her is to turn pu...

David Letterman smears 14-year-old girl; CBS, New York Times cover for him - 6/09/2009

... 14-year-old Willow. And, via this, the New York Times is doing their part. Their "Laugh Lines" blog, "from the editors of the Week in Review", reprints the Palin segment of Letterman's bit (link). However, they leave off the Willow bit. UPDATE: Earlier, this post blamed the censoring of the Willow comments on the NYT. However, from this: CBS removed it from the transcript...

NYT: "Sotomayor’s Focus on Race Issues May Be Hurdle" (laying the groundwork for her withdrawal?) - 5/30/2009

David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times offers "Sotomayor’s Focus on Race Issues May Be Hurdle" (link). Kremlin watchers are invited to speculate on whether they're trying to get those issues out of the way now, whether they're trying to give her an easy pretext to withdraw, or something else. Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico, has championed t...

Republicans Mark McKinnon, Matthew Dowd sell GOP opposition to Sotomayor as anti-Hispanic - 5/26/2009

As previously discussed, the New York Times and others are trying to pretend that opposition to Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the US Supreme Court is anti-Hispanic. And, Adam Nagourney of the NYT is getting help from two Republicans. Nagorney's "Republicans Weigh Risks of a Supreme Court Battle" (link) includes former George W Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger pollster/strategis...

Sonia Sotomayor: affirmative action nominee for Supreme Court? Close to far-left Puerto Rico extremists? - 5/26/2009

... Zeleny (remember him?) have the New York Times' take here. Was she selected only because of her outstanding grasp of legal issues? Or, was at least part of the selection due to the fact that she's a woman and a Hispanic? Were there more qualified possibilities who didn't happen to fit the politically-friendly uniform? If so, then she is indeed an affirmative action pick, despite th...

25% fewer Mexicans entered U.S. due to economy last year; NYT admits to jobs magnet - 5/15/2009

... Plummeted" by Julia Preston of the New York Times, link): The trend emerged clearly with the onset of the recession and, demographers say, provides new evidence that illegal immigrants from Mexico, by far the biggest source of unauthorized migration to the United States, are drawn by jobs and respond to a sinking labor market by staying away... "If jobs are available, people come,"...

Nina Bernstein, New York Times on immigration and mental illness - 5/04/2009

Nina Bernstein of the New York Times offers "Mentally Ill and in Immigration Limbo" (link). While much of the NYT's immigration coverage verges on the manic, in this case the mentally ill person is an illegal alien from China who's caught in a Kafkaesque maze of rules and regulations. It's certainly a tragic story and one that might be fixed by relatively minor changes in ...

Hilarious: NYT publisher Pinch Sulzberger praises NYT investor Carlos Slim - 5/03/2009

... 100" features a blurb from New York Times publisher Pinch Sulzberger about Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim (link). The latter recently saved the NYT from bankruptcy by loaning them $250 million: I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Carlos Slim. He had decided to invest in the New York Times Co. and thought it would be a good idea to get to know me and my senior colleagues. It was obv...

2009 immigration marches get tea party-level turnout (actually even less) - 5/01/2009

... Preston and Kirk Semple of the New York Times say one of the L.A. marches had 'about 1,000 people carrying Mexican flags and wearing T-shirts saying “Legalize America now"' (link). * Milwaukee: "It’s estimated that between three and five thousand people showed up Friday, versus the 30,000 people who participated last year" (link). Organized by Voces de la Frontera. * ...

Low-wattage radio, TV hosts say dumb things about Mexicans and swine flu; leftwing attacks in order to support illegal activity - 4/30/2009

... (thinkprogress.org/2009/04/30/severin-immigrants-racist). And, Fernanda Santos of the New York Times offers "Mayor’s Appointee Draws Fire for Mexico Blog Post" about a HuffPost contributor (and presumed "liberal") making borderline jokes at the HuffPost and then being forced to be contrite (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/mayoral-appointee-draws-fire-for-mexico-blog-po...

New DHS immigration raid guidelines: focus on employers, not employees - 4/30/2009

Ginger Thompson of the New York Times offers "Immigration Agents to Turn Focus to Employers" (link): In an effort to crack down on illegal labor, the Department of Homeland Security intends to step up enforcement efforts against employers who knowingly hire such workers. Under guidelines to be issued Thursday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices, agents will be instructed...

Ford Foundation to spend approx. $30 million on immigration issues over next 18 months - 4/30/2009

Stephanie Strom of the New York Times offers "New Leader Overhauls Ford Foundation" (link) about Luis Ubinas, replacement for Susan Berresford (link): Mr. Ubinas went to Ford in January of last year from McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, without previous experience in institutional philanthropy, though he had worked with several nonprofit groups... Whereas his predecessor, S...

Live coverage Obama press conference April 29, 2009 - 4/29/2009

... question is Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times. The immigration "reform" questioner was Lori Montenegro of Telemundo. The black unemployment question was from Andre Showell of BET TV.

David Gonzalez /NYT promotes anti-American DREAM Act, in-state tuition for illegal aliens - 4/25/2009

David Gonzalez of the New York Times offers "A Family Divided by 2 Words, Legal and Illegal" (link). The article is what's called around here a PIIPP: cookie cutter articles designed to promote amnesty that all have a similar structure and features. See the link for past examples. In the current case, the four-screener - part of their "Remade in America" series - is little...

Pulitzer Prize winners: anti-Arpaio series; New York Times' Spitzer coverage; Obama sycophant; Politifact - 4/20/2009

... pulitzer.org/awards/2009. The New York Times walked away with five awards, the most in their history. Strangely, none of the winners or nominees that I could find wrote stories critical of Barack Obama, such as looking into his partly-obscured past, looking into exactly what it was he supported, and the like. Also oddly enough, those that wrote immigration-related stories didn't follow the m...

Obama won't re-open NAFTA talks (Ron Kirk) - 4/20/2009

Brian Knowlton of he New York Times offers "In Shift, Obama Doesn’t Plan to Reopen Nafta Talks" (link), which shouldn't come as much of a surprise to those who've been following the Obama NAFTA issue, especially when Obama admitted being deceptive about what he actually supports. From the article: The Obama administration said on Monday that it had no plans to reopen negotiat...

Tea parties have arrived! Paul Krugman does hit piece on them. - 4/13/2009

Paul Krugman of the New York Times might have done the tea parties a great big favor by giving them a great big pinata to whack at: the fact that Krugman tries to do a hit piece on them (link). Shortly after engaging in ad hominems and losing his train of thought for a few paragraphs, he says this: ...it turns out that the tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment....

Matt Richtel /NYT helps Google, Silicon Valley promote H-1B visas - 4/11/2009

Matt Richtel of the New York Times offers "A Google Whiz Searches for His Place on Earth" (link), part of that paper's "Remade in America: A series about the newest immigrants and their impact on American institutions". It's a true multimedia edutainment spectacular including audio, a slideshow, and even interactive features. And, as it happens, our ticky-tack laws an...

Obama will bring back amnesty this fall (immigration "reform"). What you can do about it. - 4/08/2009

Julia Preston of the New York Times offers (link, with help from Jeff Zeleny) the not-incredibly-surprising news that Barack Obama will try to push comprehensive immigration reform (aka amnesty) this year. See the last link for the massive problems with that scheme. The legislation might be introduced in the fall; in May Obama will speak about this and then during the summer they'll lobby the...

ACORN doesn't need to sabotage the tea parties, they're doing a bang-up job on their own - 4/06/2009

... everything I said above! The New York Times has done a hit piece on the "parties", meaning they must be worried. Oh, wait, it's just a minor smear piece from Lawrence Downes: link. If they were truly worried they would have written a "news" article similar to those that they did on Sarah Palin. UPDATE 2: Uh oh, now here's a real worry. Lee Fang of the Obama-linked Ce...

Dennis Roddy /Pittsburgh PG, SPLC, LGF, HotAir, Kos use tragedy to smear opponents - 4/05/2009

... (link). However, Sean Hamill of the New York Times and Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America continue the smear (link, link).

"'New York Times' Spiked Obama Donor Story" (voicemail message from reporter?) - 4/01/2009

... ago, a story claiming that the New York Times spiked an anti-Obama story involving ACORN appeared: link On tonight's Bill O'Reilly show, he played a voice mail from the reporter involved - Stephanie Strom - in which she apologized to her source for not being able to follow up on some of the allegations the source was making. Paraphrasing, she said it wasn't her decision but that of...

NYT finds something else to cheer Obama over - 3/31/2009

... question is from Ian Urbina of the New York Times: link. If you want to guess first, it involves the NYT finding yet another Bush policy that Obama will make all better. It also involves the class struggle, a critique of the leisure class (which are also the only customers who can afford their junk), some really wonderful people going on a fun working vacation, and a useful idiot who thinks that ...

Obama's "Open for Questions": even MSM notices how bad it was - 3/26/2009

... whitehouse.gov/openforquestions. Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times has a run-down here. The problems with the system he used are covered in the popular voting systems summary, including a brief description of a better way to do things. As predicted, the questions were weak. However, on the plus side the mainstream media or at least the online version of same appears to be catching on to ...

Lawrence Downes /NYT: strongly supports illegal activity, has mental issues - 3/19/2009

Lawrence Downes of the New York Times offers "Notes From the Immigration Battlefield" (link). Like his earlier article (here, update here), it shows that he very strongly supports illegal immigration and thereby all of its associated illegal activity. And, the article shows that he has mental issues. Specifically, he views white people (presumably including himself) as inherently bad, an...

"Room for Debate": New York Times tries new immigration "reform" push - 3/12/2009

Brace yourselves (roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com): Starting this weekend, The Times will publish a series of articles on the impact that the latest wave of immigrants is having on American institutions. Education is the first theme, and in a previous Room for Debate discussion, experts shared their insights into what works best in teaching children who do not speak English. Here are excerpts of c...

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