The Times presumably will keep trying until it finds an issue that gets some traction.
I think the time has passed when NYT can rely on the ordinary course of human events to supply them with the “smoking gun” that will abruptly terminate McCain’s candidacy in ignominy. Yes, folks, it’s time for the Times to start fabricating such stories and having someone “leak” them to a reporter.
What that little twerp Pinch has done to this once great newspaper is in itself a scandal. Wonder what the rest of his family thinks? Are they going to sit around and watch the boy-wonder finally kill off the paper of record?
The publisher’s agenda is on the front page everyday: homosexuality is good; Bush is bad; religion is terrible; women are most affected; blacks are second most affected; white men are generally evil, but at least, always, always, wrong.
The Times presumably will keep trying until it finds an issue that gets some traction.
No doubt they will keep trying.
Moody’s may downgrade New York Times ratings
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Moody’s Investors Service on Friday placed New York Times Co.’s A2 senior unsecured long term debt, and P-1 commercial paper ratings on review for possible downgrade. The agency said the review is prompted by Moody’s growing concerns about the media company’s high financial leverage, deteriorating operating margins and weak free cash flow available for debt reduction, combined with concerns over intensifying cross media competition, including the Internet, and growing event risk in the newspaper sector. A multi-notch ratings transition will be considered in light of the company’s financial and operating challenges, Moody’s said.
What that little twerp Pinch has done to this once great newspaper is in itself a scandal. Wonder what the rest of his family thinks? Are they going to sit around and watch the boy-wonder finally kill off the paper of record?
As a New Yorker, I am saddened by the decline of this newspaper. How could they let this guy run it into the ground like this?
I don’t think they even know what “News” is any more. That last McCain debacle (about the lobbyist) showed just how far removed they are from being able to define a story. The truth is I don’t want to waste my time on their “Analysis”. I’m perfectly capable of analyzing the news myself.
The Times presumably will keep trying until it finds an issue that gets some traction.
I think the time has passed when NYT can rely on the ordinary course of human events to supply them with the “smoking gun” that will abruptly terminate McCain’s candidacy in ignominy. Yes, folks, it’s time for the Times to start fabricating such stories and having someone “leak” them to a reporter.
Oh Ya!
Can you spell T-A-I-L-H-O-O-K ??
Watch for some over-the-hill waitress in Las Vegas come forth at the last minute and claim that John McCain “groped” her during one of the yearly Naval Aviator parties.
And THEN ...
Will come the establishment of “TailHookers for Truth” in which DOZENS of aging hookers claim that he took liberties with them too.
What that little twerp Pinch has done to this once great newspaper is in itself a scandal. Wonder what the rest of his family thinks? Are they going to sit around and watch the boy-wonder finally kill off the paper of record?
As a New Yorker, I am saddened by the decline of this newspaper. How could they let this guy run it into the ground like this?
In the NY Times, ownership is separated from control. The man who controls the newspaper is virulently anti-American. I do not use that term lightly. The publisher, Sulzberger, hates the America he sees when he looks out past the city limits. He recently apologized at a graduating ceremony for the failure of his generation to institute Liberalism as the faith of America.
In 1999, during Mr. McCain’s first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history — 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of a United States Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war. This reporter, who is a physician, interviewed the senator’s doctors in 1999 with his permission.
But this time around, Mr. McCain has yet to make his full medical records or his physicians available to reporters. At least three times since March 2007, campaign officials have told The New York Times that they would provide the detailed information about his current state of health, but they have not done so. The campaign now says it expects to release the information in April.
Setting aside the story’s source, I think the American people do have the right to see McCain’s medical records vis-a-vis his cancer. After all, he’s running for a job that he’s expected to hold for at least four years, so it’s reasonable to ask if he will be up to fulfilling the duties. The presidency is a demanding position that takes a lot out of a person: look at how much Bush has aged in the past eight years. Major surgeries, radiation and chemo therapies both mentally and physically drain the patient, so I think that the paper has a point this time - even if it is the NYT.
And yes, I realize it’s hypocritical to do so for a Republican and not a Democrat, but wouldn’t we all be demanding that Clinton/Obama release their medical records if either were a cancer survivor?
As a New Yorker, I am saddened by the decline of this newspaper. How could they let this guy run it into the ground like this?
I’m told by other NYers that the paper is doing exactly what it should be doing to exactly whom it should be doing it. No doubt the board of directors and the editorial board are stacked with like-minded individuals who sincerely believe that the job of the media is to attack the government and Republicans, regardless of position, because, as they all know, Republicans are evil, Republicans caused the Viet Nam war, Republicans created widespread joblessness and massive poverty, and Republicans represent Constitutional malfeasance. Facts do not impress this bunch any more than they impress other liberal Democrats.
I think the American people do have the right to see McCain’s medical records vis-a-vis his cancer.
I don’t disagree, but cancer is not the STDs the treatment of which the Clintons have kept from the pubic lo these many years.
And yes, I realize it’s hypocritical to do so for a Republican and not a Democrat, but wouldn’t we all be demanding that Clinton/Obama release their medical records if either were a cancer survivor?
No, the media wouldn’t. That’s just the way they operate. There’s still time for you to save yourself from hypocrisy by writing to the respective campaigns and demanding that Clinton and Obama release their medical records as well.
I think the American people do have the right to see McCain’s medical records vis-a-vis his cancer.
I don’t disagree, but cancer is not the STDs the treatment of which the Clintons have kept from the pubic lo these many years.
And yes, I realize it’s hypocritical to do so for a Republican and not a Democrat, but wouldn’t we all be demanding that Clinton/Obama release their medical records if either were a cancer survivor?
No, the media wouldn’t. That’s just the way they operate. There’s still time for you to save yourself from hypocrisy by writing to the respective campaigns and demanding that Clinton and Obama release their medical records as well.
I didn’t say the media; I said, “we” as in forum members and I stand by that statement. Or are you arguing that Republicans wouldn’t demand to see Hillary’s medical records if she were a cancer survivor? If so, we disagree.
No spread has been detected in the three or four dermatologic checkups Mr. McCain has undergone each year since 2000, stress tests show no evidence of heart disease, and “his doctors consider him in very good health....”
So there doesn’t seem to be much of a story here.
There is a story here—the question of whether McCain’s cancer has spread to his lymph nodes or not. He has never divulged this information, which would effect his prognosis considerably. He also appears to be obfuscating the issue with statements about “releasing the results of tests” and so forth (tests to detect melanoma spread usually are useless). We need to know if any cancer was found beyond his primary site back in 2000, and he has not disclosed that. Melanoma is a deadly cancer. Once it spreads to internal organs, life expectancy is 6 months. That’s why this issue deserves attention.
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