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 Small Government Straw Man A front-page Times article about young people trending toward the left politically includes the following passage:
Orin Kerr Says He Was Misrepresented A professor at George Washington University law school, Orin Kerr, says the Times mischaracterized both his position and his remark about Judge Leon. Professor Kerr writes on the Volokh Conspiracy web site:
The Label Giveaway One way the Times reveals its biases is with the political labels it applies to others. One recent Times story referred to Judge Robert Bork as "an ultraconservative." Wouldn't it have been sufficient simply to describe him as conservative? Then a Times news article by David Sanger, who actually has been providing some strong and appropriately skeptical coverage of the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, referred to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as "a conservative think tank." That erroneous description was deleted in later versions of the story, according to the website newsdiffs.org, which tracks such changes. At least they didn't call the Washington Institute "ultraconservative." David Bernstein points out that the description "ultraliberal" appears rarely, if ever, in Times news copy outside quotation marks.  Adviser Inflation A New York Times news article on the departure of Lawrence Summers from the White House calls Mr. Summers "the chief architect of President Obama's economic policy." And here we had been suffering under the delusion that the chief architect of Mr. Obama's economic policy was, well, President Obama. Maybe if the economy were doing better, the Times and the White House would be playing it differently. The Label Giveaway One way the Times reveals its biases is with the political labels it applies to others. One recent Times story referred to Judge Robert Bork as "an ultraconservative." Wouldn't it have been sufficient simply to describe him as conservative? Then a Times news article by David Sanger, who actually has been providing some strong and appropriately skeptical coverage of the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, referred to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as "a conservative think tank." That erroneous description was deleted in later versions of the story, according to the website newsdiffs.org, which tracks such changes. At least they didn't call the Washington Institute "ultraconservative." David Bernstein points out that the description "ultraliberal" appears rarely, if ever, in Times news copy outside quotation marks. Orin Kerr Says He Was Misrepresented A professor at George Washington University law school, Orin Kerr, says the Times mischaracterized both his position and his remark about Judge Leon. Professor Kerr writes on the Volokh Conspiracy web site:
Small Government Straw Man A front-page Times article about young people trending toward the left politically includes the following passage:
Adviser Inflation A New York Times news article on the departure of Lawrence Summers from the White House calls Mr. Summers "the chief architect of President Obama's economic policy." And here we had been suffering under the delusion that the chief architect of Mr. Obama's economic policy was, well, President Obama. Maybe if the economy were doing better, the Times and the White House would be playing it differently.
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