Tag: new york times
member name: Rory O'Connor
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October 17, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
I had the opportunity to sit down this week with one of America’s top economists, Paul Krugman, who of course doubles as an influential op-ed columnist for the New York Times. It’s more than . . .
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December 07, 2009 03:14 PM EST --
In my last post on President Obama’s Afghan escalation speech I noted,
“Anyone who believes (the troops) will leave in eighteen months is a fool.” I also referenced “a . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:38 AM EST --
When it comes to the media and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – as in many things – John Lennon put it best :
“I’m sick and tired of hearing things/From . . .
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May 12, 2009 05:54 PM EDT --
What is it about torture that is so seductive to our mainstream media?
First, our leading (and often “liberal”) commentators and analysts, writing in supposedly respectable publications such as Newsweek . . .
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April 09, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
Eileen McNamara had it right. McNamara, a Pulitzer Prize winning former columnist for the increasingly beleaguered Boston Globe, wrote a recent Op-Ed in the rival Boston Herald wherein she noted, “From . . .
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March 19, 2009 11:02 AM EDT --
When Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently called the Internet a “cesspool” of false information, he also claimed that corporate brands such as his own are necessary filters needed to help us sort through . . .
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October 21, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
In the fall of 2002 --- little more than a year after the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States set off a chain of events that soon toppled the brutal, misogynistic Taliban regime in Kabul, and . . .
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April 29, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
Ever wake up in a funk, just spoiling for a fight?
Me too – and when I do (despite my best Buddhist intentions) I invariably reach for the New York Times and turn to the latest column by Tom Friedman, . . .
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March 25, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
With mainstream media brands in tatters, a tsunami of information inundating us online, and “quality journalism” in decline (at least as defined by legacy media executives such as New York Times editor . . .
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