Media Bias at the New York Times

The New York Times is facing hard times.  Readership has been falling since 1990 and the trend shows no signs of reversing.  The paper’s motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, but is more accurately described as “”All the News That Fits the Leftist Agenda.”

A study of media bias by the University of California at Los Angeles, Media Bias is Real, found that the New York Times has the second most liberal news pages in the nation.

A study by the University of California Los Angeles in 2004 rated the New York Times as having a liberal slant of 73.7, with 50 being a score showing no slant and 100 being a score showing the most slant.

Daniel Okrent, former public editor of the New York Times, revealed deliberate censorship of conservative views by the Times editorial board:

When I was at the Times – my term there ended four years ago – everybody on the editorial board was a Democrat. I asked Gail Collins, who was then the editorial page editor, “Why don’t you have a greater ideological variety and philosophical variety so you can have richer debate on the page?” And she said, “If I had a couple of conservatives on this page, they’d be unhappy all the time. They’d either have to write something that wasn’t their view, because we decide our view consensually, or they’d never get to write. So, what’s the point?”

The American people are not blind to this constant propagandizing and censorship.  A Rasmussen report in 2008 showed that only 24% of Americans had a favorable opinion of The New York Times.

Accuracy In Media maintains an entire Boycott The New York Times project which documents the papers continual efforts to skew the news.

The Media Research Center maintains a similar project, TimesWatch.

The New York Times, and many other mainstream media outlets, are failing because they have failed to do their job — to report the news.  To that I have only this to say: Good riddance to bad trash.