You hit the nail on the head with how the Times drips its political and geographical biases into every other part of the paper. I could live with the opinions on the editorial page, and even biased stuff on the front page is going to happen, but everything else in the paper is written for upper class east coast liberals only. This Sunday they did a big piece on how teenage girls are going to have to adjust to shopping at non-exclusive clothing stores. Um... I think they meant New York-area RICH and upper middle class girls, but we all know they don't care or know about anyone else anyway. From what I remember, girls everywhere else have been getting stuff at Wal-Mart and Marshall's for years.

Don't even get me started on the sports section.

No wonder someone like Sarah Palin comes along and these people look at her like a Martian.

Again, I don't mind disagreements. But when someone from my own country and even my own neighborhood looks at me and doesn't understand even HOW I think the way I do, something is wrong... with them.

Wow, what took you so long? Hope you're not getting the LA Slimes either! :-) (Nice letter, by the way, Karen!)

" ... Outraged by the porous journalistic ethics of the New York Times, Karen e-mailed the following letter to their editors and circulation department: ..."

maybe Karen, (or any of us who feel as she does),
can send e-mails to this site instead:

http://www.timeswatch.org/

Wow, thanks for the link.

BTW, my wife and I dropped our subscription to the Times (for good) 4 years ago after a patently dishonest front page story about missing arms in Iraq.

It isn't that Sen. Obama has outraised Sen. McCain by 3 to 1, or that Sen. McCain has run an imperfect campaign, it's that it's nearly impossible to run against the MSM.

Hopefully, this election serve as a watershed when their influence is eroded by their obvious effort to be both umpire and player for one side.

What disturbs me the most is the fact that after McCain-Feingold, the media have much greater influence over our elections. They wanted McCain and Obama and now they are openly supporting Obama. Scarey.

The Times of NY and LA both are partisan rags. They should just be honest and admit it.

Have you ever heard the anecdote regarding Jean Harlow and Margot Asquith. Harlow once adressed Asquith by her first name, but mispronounced the second syllable as rhyming with "hot." The quick-witted Asquith informed her that the "t" is silent, "as in Harlow."

Jake:

If the NY Times stated that they were a leftist publication, well, fine. But they insist that they are objective journalists.

This is a lie, an insult to the public, and it spells doom for any newspaper that maintains such a dishonest stance.

Nedra:

What took us so long?

For Karen: the crossword puzzle.

For me: Karen's love of the crossword puzzle.

Exdem:

Thanks for the link. Great site.

Soccer Dad:

You're very welcome.

Indeed, McCain is running against Obama-Biden and the left wing media. They are not liberal. That designation is a lie. JFK was a liberal. RFK was a liberal. Scoop Jackson was a liberal. Hubert Humphrey, and of course Joe Lieberman.

These long gone liberals would not recognize their party and would become Republicans in a heartbeat.

Doctor:

Obama can and does lie at every turn, but the MSM are racists of the worst kind because they hold black people to a lower standard.

BTW, why is Obama black? His mother was white, and his black father, a complete bum, abandoned him. Obama was raised by his white mother and white grandparents.

Oh wait, maybe he's black because for over 20 years he attended a separatist black church that cheers Jew and America hatred.

Yeah, that works nicely.

Kishke:

Famous anecdote to be sure.

But so unfair because Harlow was a very decent girl who just wanted to get married, have babies and live a normal life.

It was more about Asquith's cleverness than Harlow's actual behavior.

Kishke:

Yes, I understand, but I feel deeply protective of Harlow's reputation. She was a great star, a lovely girl, and died when only 26 because her mother, a Christian Scientist, refused medical care for her very sick daughter.