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    New York Times writer ADAM CLYMER. He once used an illegally taped cell phone conversation of Newt Gingrich recorded secretly by a third party as a news source, defending himself on the grounds that he was exposing Gingrich's true character. Several years later, he decried the use of Linda Tripp's secretly taped conversation with Monica Lewinsky as a news source, protesting that Tripp had taped the conversation illegally.

    The DALLAS MORNING NEWS. In July of 2003 it refused to hire graduating George Mason University student Bryan O'Keefe because he had been the editor of a conservative campus newspaper called the G.W. Patriot, and a member of the campus Young Republicans.

    New York Times economics columnist PAUL KRUGMAN, for his criticisms of President George W. Bush's links with bankrupt energy company Enron and consistently asserting that Enron money put Bush in their pocket.
    Despite calling the Bush administration "the people Enron put in the White House" and that the administration was dissembling for "so long about its contacts with Enron," Krugman himself (as revealed in a January 2002 article by his employer, the Times) received $50,000 in 1999 for serving on Enron's advisory board, a position which required him to do--absolutely nothing. By Krugman's own admission, "This was an advisory panel that had no function that I was aware of. My later interpretation is that it was all part of the way they built an image. All in all, I was just another brick in the wall."
    At this writing (01/02), Krugman continues using his column as a forum for critizing Bush over receiving Enron cash.

    The editors of the NEW YORK TIMES, for taking the Republican party to task over something they themselves were guilty of at almost the same time.
    In their 10/13/01 editorial "The Return of Partisanship", they wrote that the Republicans were "exploiting a tragic national emergency" by trying "to piggyback pet ideological measures on top of legislation to carry out the country's most urgent priorities." And yet in the editorial "A Return To Fund-Raising As Usual" three days later, the Times did exactly the same thing. They wrote, "It has never been more critical for the American people to have confidence in the motives behind the federal government's every action. The terror attacks and their aftermath have actually made it more important than ever that the Shays-Meehan (fund-raising) bill become law."
    Also, for slanting even their book bestseller lists: the Times has a history of editorial decisions keeping Christian and science-fiction works off of the lists. For the former, the Left Behind series is the most famous example, dropped by the Times after only a short while though the books' actual sales remained high and steady. Also, the paper created a children's bestseller list specifically to keep the Harry Potter books off the list when the series hit the top of the charts.

    Washington Post columnist CARL ROWAN. While an outspoken advocate of gun control, he used his son's gun to shoot a burglar in his backyard.

    Former CNN legal analyst GRETA VAN SUSTEREN. While hosting her show "The Point" on CNN, which claimed to bring a fair and accurate balance to legal issues of the day, she advised Hillary Clinton at a 1998 state dinner--during the Monica Lewinsky scandal--that President Clinton should fight Kenneth Starr's charges all the way to the Supreme Court. On her show, Van Susteren claimed that Starr's pursuit of Clinton were based on his "religious and Republican" tendencies, making an issue of his Christian background while almost simultaneously refusing to discuss her own Scientology beliefs in interviews and elsewhere.
    In turn, Van Susteren's husband, John Coale, is a trial lawyer who represented Julie Hiatt Steele during her anti-Starr diatribes, and contributed thousands of dollars both to the Democratic National Committee and Al Gore's young presidential campaign.


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