New York Times
July 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times has probably put out more significant misinformation than any other news outlet over the last 40 years. Being scrupulously fair, I admit that the National Enquirer may have propounded even more fake stories than the Times, but the Enquirer’s misinformation is generally insignificant–three-headed calves, cabbages that look like Jesus, and the like–while the Times’ lies are important, like the Russia collusion hoax. Here is a nice
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July 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
News that the New York Times will launch a Twin Cities newsletter brings to mind a few of the Twin Cities stories that the Times has covered over the years. Some of them overlapped my own work on Power Line and gave me a fresh perspective on how the Times works. When Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress in 2018, then-Times congressional reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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July 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is something I haven’t seen noted anywhere–the New York Times is expanding geographically, by adding “local newsletters” for metro areas outside of New York. The first one will be in the Twin Cities: The New York Times is piloting a local newsletter for the Twin Cities. It said: "Our hope is that The Local: Twin Cities can serve as a model for similar future efforts elsewhere around the country"
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July 9, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Sort of, anyway: I don’t share Posner’s regard for the New York Times news operation. On the contrary: I think Times reporters and editors have been responsible for more misinformation than any other news outlet over the last 40 years. But it means something that the paper’s head news guy says he wouldn’t have run the Kristof smear. I didn’t track down the podcast, and I don’t know whether there
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July 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
More ignorance from the New York Times: “Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible.” Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the Northeast and eastern Canada before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday. *** To estimate how much climate change increased the likelihood of this week’s sweltering conditions, the scientists analyzed records
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May 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Students of ancient history may recall that the New York Times played a familiar role in the rise of Fidel Castro before he overthrew the Batista regime. The paper supported “Señor Castro” with the rosy tint supplied by reporter Herbert Matthews. (“Señor Castro” is how Matthews referred to him.) Matthews’s work is accessible in the archive maintained at the Times site online. This brief summary provides a useful reminder of
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May 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This story comes from the New York Post, which got it from something called Puck News: A civil war has erupted inside the New York Times over Nicholas Kristof’s explosive column alleging widespread sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli prison guards. Staffers at the newspaper are questioning whether some of the most incendiary claims, including an allegation that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian detainees, would have ever cleared the
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May 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Of course not. The Times will publish an op-ed by a libertarian (here, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Editor of Reason Magazine) on one condition: that it bash President Trump. Today the Times published Mangu-Ward’s op-ed, titled “He’s One of a Dying Breed in Congress. America Needs Him Now More Than Ever.” You don’t have to read the article to know that it is about a “maverick” Republican. And, sure enough, it is
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May 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon’s Jon Levine reviews the history of those wily Israelis’ use of animals to faciliatate their depredations against the Muslim Middle East. He begins with their use of Flipper’s oceangoing relatives. How wily can you get? A list of animals Israel has been accused of "weaponizing" against Palestinians over the years Thread 🧵🧵 pic.twitter.com/vLXXWoufUm — Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) May 13, 2026 In a thread that can be
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May 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Twitchy post “Kristof screws the pooch” takes up the matter of Nicholas Kristof and the alleged Israeli rape dogs at the heart of Kristof’s long New York Times column. Kristof purported to report a scandal shaming Israeli authorities. The scandal appears to be of the backfiring kind. Twitchy’s justmindy compiles a few X posts that dispute Kristof’s support for the underlying thesis of the dog rape aspect of his
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May 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Eil Lake assesses the New York Times column by Nicohlas Kristof that I discussed in “The Times strikes again.” Lake’s Free Press column runs under the headline “Nick Kristof’s ‘Dog Torture’ Claim About Israel Doesn’t Pass Muster.” In my own comments on Kristof’s column, I expresssed the desire to see a sidebar to Kristof’s column in which some enterprising reporter or columnist would explore the training of the alleged Israeli
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May 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Nicholas Kristof writes a column for the opinion page of the New York Times. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Kristof has just unveiled a new libel against Israel in “The silence that meets the rape of Palestinians.” You have to read it to disbelieve it. Among other things, Kristof cites “Palestinian prisoners and human rights monitors” who report “police dogs being coached to rape prisoners.” The Times has
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May 8, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We took a look at the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times photojournalist Saher Alghorra in “The Pulitzers strike again.” The Washington Free Beacon now follows up with a review of Alghorra’s social media posts to establish that, if not a formal member of Hamas, he supports the lying party line in every jot and tittle: “New York Times Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Calls Hamas and Jihadist Militants ‘Martyrs’ and ‘Resistance,’
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May 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon’s Ira Stoll reviews the 2026 Pulitizer Prize awarded to Saher Alghorra in breaking news photography. In the linked Free Beacon story Stoll reports that the Times is scrambling to defend the integrity of its Gaza-based photographer and his work after the press watchdog organization Honest Reporting accused him of “staged scenes” that were closely coordinated with Hamas. Stoll’s backgrounder draws on the work of Honest Reporting
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May 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Some people think alcoholism is the occupational disease of reporters, but I believe it is laziness. The ridiculously low level of news coverage in contemporary America is largely the result, I think, of the fact that most reporters do so little work. The advent of artificial intelligence may make reporters’ jobs even easier. No need to research–let alone investigate!–just pop a question into Google’s version of AI, and you can
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April 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times looks into what has happened to USAID employees since that agency was shuttered, and gets out the violin: [Amy Uccello] was fired by email while on maternity leave, given 24 hours to clear out her desk and left with three days of health insurance and no severance pay. She had worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development or related groups for more than two decades.
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April 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Today President Trump, Secretary Pete Hegseth, General Dan Caine and CIA Director John Ratcliffe gave a press conference to talk about the rescue of two American airmen in Iran. It is very much worth watching. In the video below, it begins at around the 37 minute mark. The story is thrilling, and General Caine in particular does a great job of narrating it: The New York Times has been promoting
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