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NY TIMES News, Apr 23, 2012

Walmart Responds To NY Times Report Of Bribery In Mexico
KUAR
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an 8000-word investigativereport alleging Walmart, the world's largest retailer conducted a massive bribery campaign in its quest to expand retail operations in Mexico. As Jacqueline Froelich with ...
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NY Times' One-Sided Report On Keystone Pipeline Fight
Media Matters for America (blog)
A Media Matters report published earlier this year demonstrated how news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline has largely mirrored pipeline proponents' preferred framing by overstating the jobs impact of the project while overlooking potential ...
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In 2008, NY Times 'Basked' In 'Warm Glow' Of Obama Election, Now Takes 'Hard ...
Mediaite
Brisbane cites reports that show the Times gave President Obama more favorable coverage than his Republican competitors, or his GOP predecessors President Bush 43 or his father, George HW Bush. Brisbane praises his colleagues, who see themselves as ...
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NY Times story looks at Kellogg Co. snack push
Battle Creek Enquirer
10:40 am NY Times story looks at Kellogg Co. snack push A story in The New York Times on Sunday takes a look at Kellogg Co.'s pending purchase of Pringles potato chips from Procter & Gamble as the vanguard of a new push into the snack foods business.
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NY Times Ombudsman: Paper Must Take Unbiased Look at Obama
NewsMax.com
“The warm afterglow of Mr. Obama's election, the collateral effects of liberal-minded feature writers — these can be overcome by hard-nosed, unbiased political reporting now. “Readers deserve to know: Who is the real Barack Obama?
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N.Y. Times story looks at Kellogg Co. snack push
Battle Creek Enquirer
A story in The New York Times on Sunday takes a look at Kellogg Co.'s pending purchase of Pringles potato chips from Procter & Gamble as the vanguard of a new push into the snack foods business. Reporter David Segal's story, bearing the headline “These ...
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NY Times: Yes, We're In The Tank For Obama
Gothamist
After his speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the Timesreported, "The FleetCenter exploded in the kind of electric reaction and uproarious applause reserved for the birth of a political star, louder and longer than even the response to the ...
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Gothamist
Wal-Mart silenced Mexican bribe inquiry - NY Times
Reuters UK
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, squelched an internal investigation into allegations of bribery at its Mexican subsidiary instead of broadening the probe, the New York Timesreported on Saturday.
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DigiLabsPro Published a White Paper for Photographers “Protect Yourself from ...
Albany Times Union
As reported in the NY Times (11/2011) guy sued his wedding photographer after getting divorced, demanding a recreate of the entire wedding. (Supreme Court of the state of New York County of New York-Todd Remis Vs. Kurt B. Fried and H&H photographers of ...
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N.Y. TIMES: Phil Humber Just Another Pitcher Who Took Forever
Baseball Nation
The Mets were so bad in 2003 that, the next summer, they were blessed with the third pick in the amateur draft. The Padres owned the first pick and, somewhat unaccountably, chose the ill-fated Matt Bush. The Tigers owned the second pick and, ...
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Jonathan Alpert's Mis-Statements, And Possible Misconduct
Forbes
An intentionally provocative opinion piece about psychotherapy was just published in the NY Times by Jonathan Alpert. Well, it worked. I've been provoked. Alpert is an apparently proud fellow who uses his web-site to trumpet being called “Manhattan's ...
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On Fox News Fr. Jonathan Morris Suggests NY Times Is Untrustworthy!
News Hounds
One of the Fox's big memes, especially as articulated by Bill O'Reilly, is that the NY Times is Satan's very own media outlet - as opposed to Fox News being Jesus' and Cardinal Dolan's sacred harp. During his weekly Fox & Friends sermonette, ...
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Wal-Mart Accused Of Bribing Its Way Into Mexico—Next Stop, NYC?
Gothamist
According to the NY Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Barstow, Wal-Mart paid millions of dollars in bribes to Mexican authorities to expedite the company's rapid growth in the country, then conducted an internal investigation that served as ...
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Gothamist
WE CAN'T Wait! The NY Times "Discovers" What I Noted Weeks Ago...
KIDO
I'm sure this takes tremendous courage at the NY Times for any of their writers to acknowledge anything, anything at all, that reflects negatively on President Obama. The NY Times has even exposed the very obedient behavior of US Senator Harry Reid ...
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Why Tom Friedman is America's Perfect Centrist Pundit
The Atlantic
After calling "Frank" Fukuyama to talk it over, the NY Timescolumnist had a hypothesis: "Has American gone from a democracy to a 'vetocracy' -- from a system designed to prevent anyone in government from amassing too much power to a system in which no ...
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The Atlantic
“Corrupt” Wal-Mart's NYC Plan: 159 stores, growth for decades
NYaltnews
By Gustav Wynn Walmart was again in headlines this weekend for allegedly covering up widespread, prolonged, top-level corruption in their foreign practices after a major NY Times story examined massive evidence of bribery cover ups going back to ...
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Tech firms behaving badly - Cyber week is finally here - Web poker bust dries ...
Politico
WEB POKER BUST DRIES UP PAC FUNDS — David Saleh Rauf reports: “A Justice Department crackdown on several Internet gambling websites is dealing a heavy blow to the efforts of Washington's premiere online poker PAC to raise cash and throw it at ...
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Why Paul Krugman is Full of Shit
CounterPunch
The anatomy of hopelessness: Scenes from a West Virginia Middle School, by JoAnn Wypijewski. by ROB URIE Late last week Princeton University economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a piece on hisNY Times blog that history will view ...
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NY Times comes defends access for disabled
Oye! Times
“A small cadre of lawyers, some from out of state,” writes Mosi Secret in theNY Times, “are using New York City's age and architectural quirkiness as the foundation for a flood of lawsuits citing violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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North American Investigations Expands Operations to Greater Los Angeles Area
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
NIA has worked on numerous cases featured in the NY Times, The NY Post, CNN, USA Today, LA Times and numerous other media outlets. North American Investigations specializes in infidelity cases, child custody, criminal cases and missing persons/locates.
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Trevor Pryce: Early retirement not all it's cracked up to be
CBSSports.com (blog)
That's what he writes about today in the NY Times. “Having retired way before my time, I have started to lose focus and drive,” Pryce writes. “I'm retired from the game I loved. I'm retired from the perks, like getting a table instantly at my favorite ...
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CBSSports.com (blog)
Kalamazoo Today: Finals week begins at WMU; water rates may rise in Portage ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
By Fritz Klug | fklug@mlive.com It's Monday morning and it's the first day of finals at Western Michigan University. Hopefully all you students are studied, well-rested, or, at least, have a good plan to cram for tests and finish writing papers.
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Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Morning Buzz, April 23: Officials Oppose Wal-Mart
New York Times (blog)
By CHRISTOPHER REEVE Good morning. Don't forget your strong umbrella, as yesterday's rain and wind are expected to intensify today. Public transportation agencies have prepared for the weather. On the bright side, the city will be spared the snow that ...
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Should the US Join OPEC? – Part Two
MetalMiner
by Stuart Burns on April 23, 2012 The NY Times agrees, quoting Rex W. Tillerson, the chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil at a recent conference where he said, “The transformation unfolding in North America represents a potentially decisive ...
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Proactive Investors UK
(NY Times) Netflix – Ahead of the co.'s Q1 profits today, the company's Q2 US growth outlook in US subscriptions is key as it faces expansion costs abroad,reports Bloomberg. Research In Motion – Co. has hired law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy ...
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A Weekly Roundup of Small-Business News - NYTimes.com
By By GENE MARKS
Members of the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association report an increase in orders. But March's ... A new AT&T report (pdf) says that restaurants and auto-repair services are most frequently searched on mobile devices. Shannon ...
You're the Boss
News Quiz | April 23, 2012 - NYTimes.com
By By ANASTASIA ECONOMIDES
See what you know about the news of the day. ... When I was in 4th grade, we made books -- made the books themselves, covered them and bound them, then hand wrote the stories in them, and illustrated them as well. I had a neighbor who ...
The Learning Network
NY Times Exposes Wal-Mart's Bribes for Building Permits « Saint ...
By Paul
The newspaper reported that Wal-Mart failed to notify law enforcement officials even after its own investigators found evidence of millions of dollars in bribes. The newspaper said the company shut down its internal probe despite a reportby its ...
Saint Consulting
In 2008, NY Times 'Basked' In 'Warm Glow' Of Obama Election, Now ...
By Noah Rothman
Brisbane cites reports that show the Times gave President Obama more favorable coverage than his Republican competitors, or his GOP predecessors President Bush 43 or his father, George H.W. Bush. Brisbane praises his colleagues, who see themselves as .... The difference is the NY Times is open to criticism and self-criticism, while Fox news doesn't have the humility to admit wrong doing from Rupert Murdoch on down. Anonymous. Willard's first name is Willard. Barack's first ...
Mediaite
Walmart Accused of Bribery & Cover Up in Mexico! | Joseph P ...
By Joseph McClelland
See this article: Government officials have not commented on the allegations contained in a New York Times report published Saturday that said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. failed to notify law enforcement after its own investigators found evidence that millions of dollars ... Wal-Mart silenced Mexican bribe inquiry NY Times Today's Most Interesting News San Francisco Luxury News Wal-Mart silenced Mexican bribe inquiry NY Times Today's Most Interesting News San Francisco Luxury News.
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The Early Word: Waste - NYTimes.com
By By JADA F. SMITH
Political news from today's Times, plus a look at what's happening in Washington. ... By ROBERT PEAR. A Government Accountability Office reporturges the administration to cancel the program, which pays bonuses to health insurers.
The Caucus
How The New York Times Does Social Media ‹ PhotoShelter Blog
By Lauren Margolis
What makes or breaks your business these days is whether you stand out from the crowd, and both you and NY Times need to connect with customers on a personal level in order to do so. More importantly, both have to hang out where their audience is. ... Stories about social media tend to encourage a lot of sharing, as do personal stories, major investigative pieces or exclusives, breaking news and stories about health and lifestyle. You're right about the volume of stories we publish.
PhotoShelter Blog
Breakfast Meeting: The Search Is On for Missing Prime-Time ...
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Peter Chernin, who started his own media company, the Chernin Group, after resigning from News Corporation in 2009, is ready to take a big next step — an international one — Michael Cieply reports. Mr. Chernin is receiving an estimated ...
Media Decoder
In Search for Etan Patz, a Question of Finances - NYTimes.com
By By CLYDE HABERMAN
In the last few days, news reports have said that a handyman who used the space as a workshop told investigators all those decades ago that they could tear up the floor if they wished, but they would then have to pay for a new one.
City Room
E-Commerce Wrapped in a Music Video - NYTimes.com
By By ERIC WILSON
One good example, or at least an innovative one, of where this all may be heading can be found this week over at Popdust, a music news site. A new video introduced on Monday shows Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan, the excessively ...
On the Runway
Albany Considering Limiting Release of Teacher Reports ...
Anna M. Phillips reports in The New York Times on Tuesday that legislators are increasingly open to the idea of allowing parents to see the evaluations of their ...
www.nytimes.com/.../albany-considering-limiting-release-of-te...
Trial Starts in Plot Against Danish Paper Over Cartoons of Prophet ...
All four of the suspects live in Sweden, and news reports have said that at least three had traveled in Pakistan, in whose more lawless territories terrorist groups ...
www.nytimes.com/.../trial-opens-in-revenge-plot-against-danis...
Pentagon Asked Newspaper Not to Publish Photos - NYTimes.com
But the newspaper's editors said that the photographs were newsworthy. ...We have a particular duty to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the ...
www.nytimes.com/.../pentagon-asked-newspaper-not-to-publis...
Couple Questioned About Bomb Threats at University of Pittsburgh ...
The Lede is a blog that remixes national and international news stories, adding information gleaned from the Web or gathered through original reporting to ...
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/.../couple-questioned-about-bomb-t...
AP wins Pulitzer for stories documenting police spying on Muslims; NY Times wins 2 prizes
By blending traditional reporting with the use of social media, the newspaperprovided real-time updates and helped locate missing people, while producing...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQAmyIbMT_story.html
Wal-Mart silenced Mexico bribe inquiry: NY Times
The Times reported that the former Wal-Mart executive gave names, dates and ... Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, the newspaper reported.
www.reuters.com/.../us-walmart-mexico-idUSBRE83K0I7201...
NYDN photog apologizes for allegations against NY Times
NY Times still has key players locked up. ... Todd Maisel (@toddphoto) April 20, 2012UPDATE (9:45pm): New York Daily News photographer Todd Maisel... The Drudge Report picked up the story and, as the day wore on, Maisel began to ...
www.politico.com/.../daily-news-photog-claims-times-doing-c...
NY Times Discovers Scientific Corruption - Evolution News & Views
Evolution News and Views (ENV) provides original reporting and analysis about the ... It's a man-bites-dog moment when the NY Times discovers the increasing ...
www.evolutionnews.org/2012/.../ny_times_discov058691.htm...
New York Times, Huffington Post and Politico Win Pulitzers ...
One of the oldest American news outlets, the 166-year-old Associated Press, took one of two investigative reporting prizes for its series on the New York Police ...
www.nytimes.com/.../2012-pulitzer-prize-winners-announced....
Bank of America, Focusing Less on Retail, Leans on Trading for ...
For investors, cutting costs is welcome news, but analysts said it did not add up to a long-term growth strategy. The bank reported that its net income fell to $653 ...
dealbook.nytimes.com/.../bank-of-america-reports-earnings-fe...
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