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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