NEW YORK—Two top editors from The New York Times testified in its libel trial brought on by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) in federal court on Feb. 8. Linda Cohn, the junior of the two, said she had voiced her concerns about the editorial at the heart of the lawsuit after reading a draft…
New York Times Hits 10 Million Subscriptions Goal Early With Athletic Deal
The New York Times Co. has met its target of 10 million subscriptions three years ahead of schedule thanks to its purchase of The Athletic, a win for the newspaper that has staked its future on the success of its digital business. The Times gained more than a million subscriptions in its $550 million deal…
Trans Athletes, The New York Times, and the Ivy League
February 2, 2022
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Commentary How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women’s college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people’s values and level of rationality. To recap, Will Thomas, a man who until two years ago was a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s swim team,…
Sarah Palin Defamation Trial Against New York Times Postponed
NEW YORK—Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose defamation trial against The New York Times was supposed to start in federal court this week, has tested positive for COVID-19, causing the trial to be postponed until Feb. 3. Palin is unvaccinated and publicly stated in Arizona last month, “it will be over my dead body that I’ll…
Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times Heads to Trial This Month
Jury selection for Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times will begin this month, a federal court said this week. Palin sued the paper over a 2017 editorial that linked a map Palin’s political action committee circulated to the shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) and to the shooting of members of…
War Fever on the Left
Commentary “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now” read the New York Times headline on, as it happens, the day the paper itself recorded as Jan. 2. Well, of course we weren’t meant to take the headline literally, as if “Groundhog Day” had jumped off the silver screen and come to life, suddenly, a day short…
New York Times Accused of Illegal Interference with Union Activism
The New York Times has been accused of illegal interference in employees’ union activism, according to a legal complaint by federal labor officials. In a complaint dated Dec. 29th, an acting director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged that members of The New York Times management told employees during a Zoom call last…
New York Times Charges Democracy Threatened, Fails to Look in the Mirror
Commentary The lot of a columnist is not an enviable one. It’s the details and the logistics that weigh one down. It’s hard to keep everything straight. Just now, for example, I was looking over “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now,” the cheery New Year’s message from our former paper of record. It’s signed by…
How the New York Times Abuses the ‘Public’s Right to Know’
Commentary The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the independence of the press from any restrictions imposed by Congress, which “shall make no law” abridging press freedom. The principle of unfettered free expression has since been incorporated into the state constitutions, and for centuries has been widely accepted on both the left and the right…
Judge Extends Block on New York Times Publishing Project Veritas Documents
A New York trial court judge on Tuesday extended a ban blocking The New York Times from publishing legal documents and privileged materials from investigative journalism nonprofit Project Veritas. At a nearly two-hour hearing in White Plains, Justice Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court extended his temporary ban, first imposed on Nov. 18,…
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