Quotes About New York Times

The search for conspiracy," Anthony Lewis had written in The New York Times in September of 1975, "only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

the New York Times, one of the most influential newspapers in the United States, was a propaganda sheet for Stalin's early regime and helped cover up the genocide and atrocities against the Ukrainians.17

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans and one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the nation. Dr. Dyson is the author nineteen books, including four New York Times bestsellers.

Quoted in the New York Times two days later, I called Bush's remarks a "rookie mistake." I went on: "I can understand the strategy on rapport, but it went too far . . . I think there is plenty of good reason not to trust President Putin. This is a man who was trained to lie."16 I was never invited back to brief President Bush again. Years later, during Obama's

Saw," he said. "Early this morning on Twitter." "Ah," I said, "the paper of record." "Isn't that The New York Times?" he asked. "Not anymore.

We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

Jack Reed, whom The New York Times had labeled "the Bolshevik agitator," hesitated and then equivocated on the stand. But by then the defense of The Masses was plain: criticism of the government didn't amount to a desire to overthrow it. If all hostile opinion were suppressed, how could Americans believe they lived in a free country? Dissent was a safeguard to freedom, not an impediment.

The press would indeed take the "conservative" position. A New York Times reporter put it this way: "The Academy found that since there is no politically or economically realistic way of heading off the greenhouse effect, strategies must be prepared to adapt to a 'high temperature world.'"50 But the Academy hadn't found that; the committee had asserted it. And it wasn't the Academy; it was Bill Nierenberg and a handful of economists.

Into Nexis, the newspaper database. I plug in "New York Times" and "Brody"—Jane Brody, the oracle of health wisdom— and "alcoholism" and "disease." Up

When a leaked copy of the document, prepared under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz, then the Pentagon's Undersecretary for Policy, was disclosed by the New York Times in May 1992, the negative reaction from both the White House and foreign capitals was so strong that it had to be redrafted.