Tag: NYT

Categories USA

NYTimes retracts ‘Caliphate’ podcast & reassigns reporter, admitting star ‘ISIS executioner’ likely never went to Syria

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The NY Times has finally retracted its award-winning podcast about a Canadian-born Islamic State executioner, months after Ottawa discovered he’d made it all up, admitting their fact-checking was “not sufficiently rigorous.” … Read More >NYTimes retracts ‘Caliphate’ podcast & reassigns reporter, admitting star ‘ISIS executioner’ likely never went to Syria

Categories USA

NYTimes RETURNS Peabody award for retracted ‘Caliphate’ podcast after acknowledging that its star ‘ISIS executioner’ was a hoax

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The NY Times has returned the Peabody award given to the newspaper’s ‘Caliphate’ podcast in 2018, after the show fell from grace upon the discovery that one of its top sources –an alleged IS executioner– was making his stories up. … Read More >NYTimes RETURNS Peabody award for retracted ‘Caliphate’ podcast after acknowledging that its star ‘ISIS executioner’ was a hoax

Categories Russia

‘Upper Volta with helium?’ Russia’s new status as squeaky-voiced ‘superpower’ makes it a threat, says New York Times

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Russia’s ballooning helium industry is the latest target of the NYT’s hysterical coverage of the country, with America’s ‘newspaper of record’ floating the idea that Moscow could cut off supplies and blow up the world economy. … Read More >‘Upper Volta with helium?’ Russia’s new status as squeaky-voiced ‘superpower’ makes it a threat, says New York Times

Categories USA

4 years lost to amnesia? NYT economist claims Biden FIRST US PRESIDENT to face an opposition calling him ‘illegitimate’

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Democrat Joe Biden would be the first US president deemed illegitimate by political opposition in years, economist Paul Krugman claims – never mind the many Democrats, including Krugman, who’ve actually described Trump as such. … Read More >4 years lost to amnesia? NYT economist claims Biden FIRST US PRESIDENT to face an opposition calling him ‘illegitimate’

Categories Middle East

Israel Should be Thanked For Iranian Scientist Assassination, Anonymous Israeli Official Tells NYT

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Iran’s senior nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed on 27 November in a shooting and bombing attack in the town of Absard. No country has claimed responsibility for his killing, but high-ranking Iranian officials have blamed the assault on Israel. … Read More >Israel Should be Thanked For Iranian Scientist Assassination, Anonymous Israeli Official Tells NYT

Categories USA

Pope pens op-ed on perils of consumerism and ideology. US Left reads, ‘Justice ACB is a bad Catholic & horrible person’

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Pope Francis has written a piece in the New York Times, calling on humanity to find a way to become better after the Covid-19 pandemic. Left-leaning Twitter users have alleged it’s a reply to the Supreme Court’s latest decision. … Read More >Pope pens op-ed on perils of consumerism and ideology. US Left reads, ‘Justice ACB is a bad Catholic & horrible person’

Categories Russia

‘You Can Lie Remotely’: Russian MFA Spokeswoman Zakharova Piques NYT Headhunt in Moscow

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Around a week ago, The New York Times posted a “legendary” job offer, seeking a daredevil who would cover Russia – a country that, according to the outlet, “has its cyber agents sow chaos and disharmony in the West to tarnish its democratic systems, while promoting its faux version of democracy”. … Read More >‘You Can Lie Remotely’: Russian MFA Spokeswoman Zakharova Piques NYT Headhunt in Moscow

Categories USA

Anti-Trump mole Miles Taylor unveils president’s ‘shocking sins’… mostly farcical outbursts & PUBLIC promises to voters

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The ex-Trump staffer who revealed himself as the author of an anonymous New York Times piece has tried to frame publicly stated policies, such as removing troops from Syria, as scandalous revelations and crimes against America. … Read More >Anti-Trump mole Miles Taylor unveils president’s ‘shocking sins’… mostly farcical outbursts & PUBLIC promises to voters

Categories World

An extra dose of Novichok? Russian activist Navalny could have been poisoned on two separate occasions in Tomsk, claims US media

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The latest US media update on the increasingly complicated case of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny suggests he could have been poisoned not once, but twice on the fateful August day when he first became ill over Siberia. … Read More >An extra dose of Novichok? Russian activist Navalny could have been poisoned on two separate occasions in Tomsk, claims US media

Categories USA

‘MAGA Haberman’: Resistance roasts NYT reporter, once considered friendly by Clinton, for even MENTIONING Hunter Biden emails

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Even mentioning the October surprise story about Hunter Biden in order to criticize it has landed journalist Maggie Haberman in hot water with online Democrat activists, who furiously accused her of helping President Donald Trump. … Read More >‘MAGA Haberman’: Resistance roasts NYT reporter, once considered friendly by Clinton, for even MENTIONING Hunter Biden emails