News flash: The New York Times is conservative

The fact that the New York Times is biased is hardly newsworthy. But Media Matters believes that the New York Times is biased to the right. No, really, to the right.

The article complains that Times public editor Clark Hoyt “…manages to get through an entire column about the possibility that the Times is biased in favor of liberals without ever once mentioning the paper’s coverage of the 2000 election or the run-up to the Iraq war, to pick just two of the most obvious counter-examples.”

We must be getting senile. We can’t remember the Times throwing its weight behind George Bush or leading the charge into Iraq. But it gets worse. The article continues:

“The suspicion of bias will never go away. These efforts to bend over backwards to appease the Right — people who will never be appeased — no matter how ridiculous their complaints, in which newspapers like the Times fret over the suspicion of bias regardless of the merits of the complaint, are exactly how the paper ends up handing a presidential election to George W. Bush — and then handing him his Iraq war on a platter.”

To repeat, Media Matters is talking about THE NEW YORK TIMES. Is there another paper named the New York Times that we don’t know about?

Source: MediaMatters.org

– Written by Patrick Michael