New York Times: 10 questions with ‘Gray Lady Down’ author William McGowan

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http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/21/10-questions-with-gray-lady-down-author-william-mcgowan/

Excerpt:

William McGowan is the author of “Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Time Means For America.”

Formerly editor of the Washington Monthly, McGowan is a media fellow at Social Philosophy and Policy Center. His work has been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and the National Review, among other places. His last book, “Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism,” won the National Press Club Award.

McGowan recently agreed to answer 10 questions from The Daily Caller about his new book:


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http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/21/10-questions-with-gray-lady-down-author-william-mcgowan/

Excerpt:

William McGowan is the author of “Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Time Means For America.”

Formerly editor of the Washington Monthly, McGowan is a media fellow at Social Philosophy and Policy Center. His work has been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and the National Review, among other places. His last book, “Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism,” won the National Press Club Award.

McGowan recently agreed to answer 10 questions from The Daily Caller about his new book:


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/21/10-questions-with-gray-lady-down-author-william-mcgowan/#ixzz15wG0bq43

A good read. I found this paragraph to be spot-on:

4. What are the greatest problems you see with the New York Times’ coverage of issues today? And is there a particular area where they are especially bad?

The Times has been particularly bad on race, immigration, the growth of Islam in America, gay rights (especially gay marriage), the War on Terror and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The common thread is a mentality defined by a kind of “punitive liberalism” which holds that America at its core is somehow morally tainted and needs to atone — to “reclaim its soul” as one of its op-ed columnists put it.

And this is why liberals believe they are eminently qualified moralists and the only ones qualified to put this country on the Road to Redemption. No one in politics currently typifies and manifests this morally superior attitude better and more frequently than Obama, as he travels around the globe constantly apologizing to some country for America's many "sins". Liberals think if they could just straighten out America and get The People to atone for our sins nationally and join all the other civilized nations, this world would be such a better place. This is the attitude that permeates the mentality of most liberals. This is why they're so arrogant and condescending.

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AMONG OTHER GOOD POINTS, I LIKE THIS ONE;

THAT William McGowan made...

"and when cheerleading replaces journalism at the most important news organization in the country, our experiment in self-government suffers."

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