Do you think the NY Times is a liberal paper ?

Question

Are their editorials and op page articles liberal?

Answer 1

Yes it is a liberal newspaper.The op-ed and editorial writers are hired and work for the times,like O'Dowd,Herbert and Krugman,then they are syndicated.Also the movie,book critics are extremely liberal.O'reilly has a best selling book they ignore it but loved Norm Chomsky's socislist rantings? Did you hear the sad rantings of Arthur Sulzberger at the NY SUNI graduation?He's the publisher,it starts at the top and if you don't think they're liberal your're dilusional,are you listening Mr.I've got 2 doctorates?

Answer 2

Well, first, editorials and op-eds are written by other people and just published by the paper. So, it really has nothing to do with the ideology of the paper itself.

Also, in the current political climate, anyone who doesn't believe in ramming tradtional Christian values down everyone else's throats seems to get accused of being a liberal. As if supporting the constitutional ideal of "ensuring the blessings of liberty" was a bad thing.

The NYT is a newspaper that publishes the stuff its readers want to read. It has journalists and editors who believe in freedom of speech and diversity of opinion. The fact that those values tend toward the liberal end of the spectrum doesn't make them wrong.

If the choice is to be liberal and talk about everything, or be conservative and only toe the party line with pre-defined talking points, which one seems more like actually being a news-paper and not just a propaganda machine?

Answer 3

No. They are just the opinions of people who try to objectively look at the event, story, or issue.

Just because we may not agree what's on an editorial doesn't necessarily make a paper liberal or conservative. I can't stand to read George Will's columns, but I don't go around telling folks that the Tulsa World or St. Louis Post Dispatch is a conservative rag.

Answer 4

If it's liberal, its the limosine liberal type. I saw a Sunday issue a few years ago where the Times had this weepy front-page story (which was evidently a running series) about "The Neediest Cases." It described people who were "left behind" by welfare reform or out on the skids (usually single mothers).

Then in the same damn issue, in the Style section or something, it had two HUGE stories about the caviar and foie gras industries.

So, if anything, the editors (and most of the readership) of the Times are hypocritical, sanctimonious twits with their heads WAY up their own butts.

Answer 5

No it is not liberal or conservative but an honest paper that attempts to report the truth. The paper has not yet been bought out by the Religious Right but I am sure it will in due time just like the majority of others - like the Washington Post.

Answer 6

The editors slant to the left, but the news articles are unbiased . Remember their ex-employee Judith Miller and her unrelenting cheer leading for the war with her columns on WMD? Her source was Dick Cheney ,yet he had the audacity to quote from her work on the Sunday morning news show "This Week "and acted as though it was independent reporting. He presumed it would bolster his position on Saddam's arsinal with the Times lending their credibility to it.
It's a fair minded paper and, no, I wouldn't specify it as liberal.

Answer 7

sometimes i think they got all the people left over from the moscow "daily worker" working there now....
liberal isnt the right word...id use anti american, socialists to describe them and their politics.....
they dont care much whats good for this country...they are "elitist etheral thinkers"....they would much rather have a world governing body......

Answer 8

Depend's on what you compare it with..
Compared to the rest of the media in the U.S.= Yes
Compared to the rest of the media in the World= Nope..

Answer 9

Do you think Pope Frederick the Sixteenth is Catholic?

Answer 10

Of course not, you reactionary ********! I bet you'd vote for Ann Coulter for president!