Media

For NYT’s David Brooks, a Long-Overdue Goodbye

Raina Lipsitz / FAIR Feb 10, 2026 For decades, the columnist has defended the powerful, denigrated the vulnerable and decried a toxic political culture via tossed-off listicles. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Media

The ‘Nazi Sympathizer Next Door’ Genre Gets Another Installment

Julie Hollar / FAIR Dec 8, 2025 The New York Times’ problem isn’t that it hasn’t probed the far-right psyche deeply enough — it’s that it refuses to stop normalizing it. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Media

For NYT, Trump’s Gulf Corruption Is No Big Deal

Ari Paul / FAIR Nov 18, 2025 Recent reporting on the Trump Organization's lucrative real estate dealings in Saudi Arabia have raised no questions at the paper of record. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

The Clarifier

Eli Valley / Truthdig Aug 7, 2025 Dig deeper

Media

‘Most Worrisome …’

Ari Paul / FAIR Jun 30, 2025 How the media did their best to scare voters away from Zohran Mamdani in the primary for New York City mayor. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Media

The N.Y. Times’ Shameless Whitewash of Andrew Cuomo

Julie Hollar / FAIR Apr 10, 2025 The paper’s kid-glove treatment of the scandal-ridden former governor isn’t restricted to its news pages. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Media

Legacy Media Paved Way for Trump’s Targeting of Columbia

Ari Paul / FAIR Mar 25, 2025 The New York Times, Atlantic and Washington Post fanned the flames of the right-wing pearl-clutching at the anti-genocide protests. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Politics

NYT Revises History of How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

Dean Baker / Beat the Press Jan 8, 2025 The paper wants us to believe disaffection is a result of misunderstanding and not an elite agenda in which it is complicit. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Media

WSJ Wants Judiciary Shielded From Scrutiny

Ari Paul / FAIR Sep 19, 2024 The editorial board criticized recent investigations into the Supreme Court as an attempt to "tarnish the court as political." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Media

Crime Is Way Down. Somebody Tell the NYT

Jim Naureckas / FAIR Jul 27, 2024 If you say “many Americans are worried about crime”, then many Americans are going to worry about crime—even when it’s in a steady 30-year decline. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

TD Column

How Not to Report on Donald Trump

Jeb Lund / Truthdig Jun 10, 2024 A.G. “Dash” Sulzberger’s Silicon Valley-inflected skepticism and open-debate pieties are a recipe for dangerously irresponsible journalism by omission. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Opinion

The NYT Provides Cover for Biden’s Latest Complicity in Gaza Massacre

Norman Solomon / Truthdig Apr 2, 2024 By refusing to cover the latest transfer of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the paper suggests the slaughter of Palestinian civilians is unremarkable. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )