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Madonna: Harvey Weinstein 'Crossed Lines'

Describes movie mogul as 'incredibly sexually flirtatious' with her

(Newser) - At 60, Madonna reflects on a career that wasn't all sunshine and roses in a New York Times feature out Wednesday. In the process, she describes publicly for the first time the stain that was her interaction with Harvey Weinstein during the making of her 1991 documentary, Truth or ...

NYT Reporter Gets Creative With Trump Event's Dress Code

Annie Karni wore her wedding dress

(Newser) - New York Times reporter Annie Karni was getting ready to head to Japan to cover President Trump's visit there when she found out about the dress code for one of the events she'd be attending—and she had to scramble to pack just the right thing, per Sky...

Rich Liberals Are Creating 'Unlivable' US Cities

In 'NYT,' Farhad Manjoo says Dems have a NIMBY attitude that belies their progressive stance

(Newser) - California is suffering from an "emergency that feels like a dystopian showcase of American inequality." That's the take of Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times , who writes that the Golden State is weighed down by a "livability" problem, plagued with a lack of affordable housing,...

Trump: I Don't Need Banks Because I Have Cash

President fires back at 'New York Times' over negative story

(Newser) - The New York Times wrote a story critical of President Trump's dealings with Deutsche Bank, and now the president is firing back. In Monday morning tweets, Trump rejected the notion that banks have been leery of working with him—instead, he says he's been so successful in business...

2nd Offensive Cartoon Leads NYT to Drastic Move

Newspaper will no longer run syndicated cartoons after publishing one deemed anti-Semitic

(Newser) - "How many New York Times editors looked at a cartoon that would not have looked out of place on a white supremacist website? ... What does this say about your processes or your decision makers?" That was the reaction of the American Jewish Committee after the publication of what the...

Times Deletes Controversial Cartoon, Apologizes
Times Deletes Controversial
Cartoon, Apologizes
the rundown
Apr 29, 2019 7:51 AM CDT

Times Deletes Controversial Cartoon, Apologizes

'We are deeply sorry for the publication of an anti-Semitic political cartoon'

(Newser) - The New York Times is apologizing for a political cartoon critical of Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump widely seen as anti-Semitic. In fact, the newspaper itself agrees with that description. "We are deeply sorry for the publication of an anti-Semitic political cartoon last Thursday in the print edition of...

Trump: NYT Needs to Get on Knees, Beg

'They are truly the Enemy of the People!'

(Newser) - President Trump thinks the New York Times should "get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness." The comment came in a "Twitter rampage" attacking media outlets early Tuesday, per Fox News . Trump wrote that he was deserving of "a far bigger & better apology" than...

Times Defends Story as Trump Lashes Out

President slams allegations that Mueller report is more damning than thought

(Newser) - President Trump is going after a familiar target over new allegations regarding the Robert Mueller report. The New York Times reported that members of Mueller's team are unhappy with the attorney general's summary of their work, suggesting that the full report is more damning to the president than...

NYT Responds After Trump Brands It 'Enemy of the People'

Tweets follow publication of paper's investigation

(Newser) - President Trump set his sights on the New York Times Wednesday, tweeting the following: "The New York Times reporting is false. They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" While there was no reference to a specific article, the tweet followed Tuesday's publication of an investigation titled...

Getting Rid of Billionaires Isn't 'Un-American'— It's Necessary

That's Farhad Manjoo's take for the 'New York Times'

(Newser) - Farhad Manjoo would like to end our "devastating national love affair with billionaires"—and he thinks the way to do that is to force-phase them out. Writing for the New York Times , Manjoo says he got to seriously thinking about the concept of abolishing the super-rich after reading...

Trump: I'm Losing 'Massive Amounts of Money' in This Job

He says wall talks are 'a waste of time'

(Newser) - President Trump sat down with reporters from one of his least favorite papers Wednesday and declared that border wall talks are a "waste of time." New York Times correspondents Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman say they interviewed Trump in the Oval Office after he invited publisher AG Sulzberger...

TSA Workers, It&#39;s Time to Take Action
TSA Workers,
It's Time to
Take Action
opinion
Jan 14, 2019 6:00 PM CST

TSA Workers, It's Time to Take Action

A New York Times op-ed calls for a 'good old-fashioned strike'

(Newser) - Thousands of TSA officers are calling in sick as the government shutdown enters week four, but is that protest enough? Maybe not: "TSA workers should use last year's teachers' strikes as a model," Barbara Ehrenreich and Gary Stevenson write in the New York Times . "They were...

Ex-NYT Editor: Trump Took Words 'Out of Context'

Jill Abramson praises paper's 'superb coverage' after excerpt of her coming book leaks

(Newser) - Jill Abramson and President Trump appeared to be in unlikely agreement that the New York Times was running stories that "were unmistakably anti-Trump" —but very briefly, and now the former NYT executive editor is hitting back at coverage of her upcoming book, saying it was taken "totally...

Former NYT Editor Slams Paper's Trump Coverage

Jill Abramson has a book coming out

(Newser) - The New York Times has been "unmistakably anti-Trump" in much of its coverage. No, it wasn’t the president, or Sarah Sanders, or anyone else in the Trump administration who said that—not this time, at least. Instead, those words are coming from Jill Abramson, former executive editor of...

Bombarded by Disinformation, 'We're on Our Own'

Kara Swisher writes for the 'NYT' that tech companies haven't been terribly helpful in fighting bad actors

(Newser) - What's "dead clear": Propaganda pushers have been using platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter "exactly as they were designed to be used." What we're just now learning: that those companies were more or less useless on the front lines against disinformation and "fake news,...

Alice Walker, New York Times Take Flak on Book Comments

Author mentions reading a book deemed anti-Semitic, and no context is provided by Times

(Newser) - The New York Times is standing by its Q&A with Pulitzer-winning author Alice Walker despite complaints about her comments on a book by an accused anti-Semite. The 74-year-old author of The Color Purple told the newspaper's By the Book column that was she was currently reading David Icke'...

She Has Made Trump's Bed, and She's Undocumented

'NYT' talks to woman who says she worked as undocumented employee at NJ golf club

(Newser) - Victorina Morales knows she stands a good chance of getting fired, or even deported, after speaking to the New York Times about her time as a housekeeper for President Trump's golf club in Bedminster, NJ. But the Guatemalan native says Trump's comments against Latin American immigrants, as well...

'Hundreds' of Texts Could Derail Les Moonves' $120M CBS Exit

'NYT' has details of new #MeToo accusation against the ex-CBS chief

(Newser) - A "monthslong cascade of hundreds of text messages" could cost Les Moonves $120 million. That's the crux of a New York Times expose that details a triangle with the former head of CBS, a floundering Hollywood manager, and an actress who once "radiated star power"—and...

She Was Called a Dead Reality Star. That's Not Quite Right

The 'New York Times' looks at the life of Lyric McHenry

(Newser) - Lyric McHenry was found dead hours after celebrating her 26th birthday in Manhattan, and the coverage of her death "reduced [her] to the facts as written in a hurried police report: black woman, pregnant, possible cocaine, deserted street in the Bronx," writes Zoe Greenberg for the New York ...

Trump Responds to NYT Report on His Inheritance

'Very old, boring'

(Newser) - Those waiting for President Trump's response to the New York Times investigation into what it says was the $413 million inheritance (in today's dollars) he received and the alleged "dubious tax schemes" around it got it mid-morning. The president tweeted , "The Failing New York Times did...

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