Yon Is Wrong
By Carl Prine on Sunday, June 12th, 2011 
I love Michael Y, but he’s championing the wrong story for the wrong reasons. Some points to consider about “progress” and the war in Afghanistan.
Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’
Michael Ware PTSD “Misunderstanding”
By Jamie McIntyre on Monday, May 3rd, 2010 
After days of negative publicity for appearing to dump war correspondent Michael Ware, who says he is suffering from PTSD, CNN tells the New York Times, there may have been a misunderstanding.
Time to Pay For The Times?
By Jamie McIntyre on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 
The New York Times is timidly toying with plans to try to charge “heavy users” of the online version of its paper a nominal fee to access its website. I say the Times should go for broke, and charge for EVERYTHING. It’s the only way to leverage to power of the premier news site and break online consumers of the notion that the best news on the web is still free.
Propaganda or Plain Ol’ PR?
By Jamie McIntyre on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 
To subscribe to the more benign view that this was good old-fashioned public relations, not pernicious propaganda, one would have to give some of the people involved the benefit of the doubt, and these days no one is predisposed in that direction.
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