By James D. Agresti February 22, 2021 Overview A New York Times essay by columnist Kevin Roose frets that the U.S. is suffering from a “reality crisis” and proposes this…

By James D. Agresti February 17, 2021 The New York Times has published a “fact check“ by Linda Qui declaring that Donald Trump’s lawyers “made a number of inaccurate or…

…people. For a prime example, on the morning of December 8, 2021, the New York Times published a “Covid Live Update” with the title: Blood samples of people who received…

…registered voters, which can easily overturn the results of close major elections. Yet, some critics have alleged the study is false, including the New York Times, Snopes, the Cato Institute,…

…test; Republicans did….” – Paul Krugman of the New York Times Republicans “continue to peddle denial for political reasons.” – Fabiola Santiago of the Miami Herald If “coronavirus has revealed…

…January 21, 2015, and Shokin was not appointed chief prosecutor until the next month in February 2015. The London Guardian, the Financial Times, and the New York Times all reported…

…history books.” The organization’s Facebook fans and their friends responded by sharing this picture more than 15,000 times—many times more than the New York Times’ 3.3 million Facebook fans share…

…voting in federal elections,” (2) “you don’t need government issued ID to vote,” and (3) Democrats “are importing voters.” To rebut those statements, the New York Times published an article…

…is the media’s fixation on just a few of the 16,000 murders that occur every year in the United States. The editorial board of the New York Times recently accused…

…not appointed chief prosecutor until the next month in February 2015. The London Guardian, the Financial Times, and the New York Times all reported that the probe ended in January,…

…are less able to satisfy basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, education, and health. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Pollin and Ash (two thirds of HAP) write that…

…sides.’ There are no good Nazis. There are no good Klansmen.” the New York Times reported that Trump “spoke of ‘very fine people on both sides.’ And of the demonstrators…

…to “dominate protesters.” This includes but is not limited to CNN, Bloomberg News, Newsweek, and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. The New York Times amplified the disinformation and drama by reporting…

…states that the drug “works by preventing … attachment of the egg (implantation) to the uterus (womb).” However, in June 2012, the New York Times published an article claiming that…

…of major media outlets: CNN, USA Today, NPR, Business Insider, CBS Chicago, and the New York Times all ran stories that described Willeford’s AR-15 simply as a “gun” or “rifle”…

…a woman’s life and fetal anomalies. However, over the next year and a half, those assertions were discredited by Fitzsimmons and other abortion providers: Fitzsimmons told the New York Times…

…a debt. In concert with Biden, scores of media outlets—such as Politico, NPR, CNN, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post—have reported that not raising the debt limit…

…was hospitalized for severe Covid-19, compared to zero who received the placebo. People who rely on the New York Times for such information are under the opposite impression and are…

By James D. Agresti and Rachel McCutcheon March 1, 2022 On the 10th anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, the New York Times has published a video about this…

…right to terminate pregnancies up until the point of birth.” – Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times In support of those claims, these fact checks all use a…

…downplayed the severity of crime in the U.S. include but are not limited to President Biden, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Joy Behar of ABC’s The View, and the New York Times…

…group of lethally provocative falsehoods spread by prominent progressives. For example, the most-visited news site in the nation, the New York Times, has published these racially charged untruths: Black people…

…funding than other students on a per-student basis.” Along the same lines: Sarah Mervosh of the New York Times reported in early 2019 that “on average, nonwhite districts received about…

…was not a weapon that is “in the hands of soldiers.” Fallacy # 3: The Colorado shooter used an assault rifle Commentaries and articles published by the New York Times,…

…a “groundswell of popular support” for them “at this very moment.” Although Sanders has been praised by a New York Times Magazine contributor for “almost single-handedly” spurring the membership and…

By James D. Agresti December 30, 2024 New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan. Credit: Tada Images/Shutterstock.com Reflecting back on 2024 and looking forward to a future with less misinformation…

…despite the relevance of this to current policy disputes about illegal immigration and violence. That includes, for example, reports by the New York Times, the Daily Beast, NBC New York,…

By James D. Agresti April 25, 2022 Near the top of its home page, the New York Times has published an essay by three professors about a “highly effective” technology…

By James D. Agresti July 15, 2020 A recent New York Times article by Jeremy W. Peters claims it is a “fact” “that black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality.”…

…The Guardian, and the Washington Post, as well as three separate articles from the New York Times. The Times later conducted its own analysis using the same ruse as the…

By James D. Agresti July 29, 2020 According to the New York Times, one of the main reasons why public K–12 schools are reopening more slowly from Covid-19 lockdowns than…

…and New York Times allege that the only material difference between the U.S. and developed countries with vastly lower murder rates is that America has more guns. Thus, they conclude…

…nearly tripled: Many students pay less for college than published sticker prices because of discounts, scholarships, and financial aid. Thus, David Leonhardt of the New York Times argues that sticker…

…an indefinite U.S. military presence in Iraq. When Obama announced in October 2011 that all U.S. troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year, the New York Times…

…development budget.” In 2011, the New York Times reported that “taxpayers and ratepayers are providing subsidies worth almost as much as the entire $1.6 billion cost” for “a compound of…

By James D. Agresti June 29, 2018 President Trump recently held a conference with family members of U.S. citizens killed by illegal immigrants. The parents of nine people slain by…

…utilities, have strongly supported the use of solar energy—especially in the U.S. Department of Energy’s research and development budget.” In 2011, the New York Times reported that “taxpayers and ratepayers…

…and National Guard troops” used “tear gas” against “people nonviolently protesting police brutality” to clear the way for a “Trump church photo-op.” A New York Times headline stated, “Protesters Dispersed…

…from year to year. The other media outlets cited above draw similarly flawed conclusions based upon data from Australia. The New York Times editorial board also points to “a decline…

…of the Vietnam War,” Gongloff links to a February 26th New York Times article entitled, “Austerity Kills Government Jobs as Cuts to Budgets Loom.” Notwithstanding the title, the fifth paragraph…

By James D. Agresti October 11, 2023 Credit: Felipe Caparros/Shutterstock.com Overview In a staggering act of journalistic deceit, the New York Times is reporting that Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry…

…contrary to predictions that Covid vaccines could reverse this carnage. Nevertheless, a New York Times article by Roni Caryn Rabin blames this “historic setback” mainly on a lack of Covid-19…

…this claim on an article in the New York Times, which declares that “nonwhite and low-income students who attend integrated schools perform better academically,” but there is a “long history…

By James D. Agresti May 24, 2018 In a New York Times article about President Trump scaling back regulations, reporters Binyamin Appelbaum and Jim Tankersley report “there is little historical…

…Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Detroit Free Press repeated these specious allegations. Likewise, Bernstein’s claim that people were trying to purge the term “democracy” is untrue. The…

…2000.” Many “fact checkers” of Trump’s speech declared this statement to be true, including those of the New York Times, PolitiFact, Vox, and NPR. In reality, the data cited by…

By James D. Agresti August 9, 2012 In a house editorial about an Arizona law that restricts abortions after 18 weeks, the editors of the New York Times assert that…

…it was attacked by the New York Times, Snopes, the Cato Institute, and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. In June, Just Facts published an article that…

…of the Las Vegas massacre—the worst mass murder in the U.S. since 9/11. A classic example is the New York Times, which ran editorials with various claims to that effect….

…Kurtz of CBS News, Bob Beckel of Fox News, Paul Krugman of the New York Times, and Stoyan Zaimov of the Christian Post. Such widespread misreporting may explain why public…

…disaster. Such stories were published by Discovery News, Yahoo News, Scientific American, The Independent, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. The last of these, for instance, described the…

…appear in a broad range of articles and commentaries from media outlets like Time, ABC News, USA Today, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Vox. To support…

…leadership, nine former directors and acting directors of the CDC back to 1977 recently penned an op-ed for the New York Times in which they: accuse RFK of “endangering every…

…20 weeks. This includes but is not limited to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Slate, and the Daily Beast. To support this claim, all of these…

…views.” The same is true of journalists and editors at media outlets like the New York Times, who regularly publish falsehoods that spur violence and civic dysfunction. To attack this…

…“Guiding Principles” include support for legalized abortion. As summarized by the New York Times, the study found that “only 2 percent of abortions done after 16 weeks of pregnancy are…

…the same measure, spending rose by 7.0% in the two years prior to this. Similar to Lahart, Floyd Norris, the chief financial correspondent of the New York Times, reported last…

…columns for the New York Times in which he claimed that the debt is an “overhyped issue” and “isn’t all that unusual” from a historical perspective. His attempts to support…

By James D. Agresti January 9, 2012 Correction appended In a New York Times column entitled “Nobody Understands Debt,” Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes that “the way our politicians…

…180 countries shows that the link between poverty and corruption is real and striking: A recent video op-ed by the New York Times rife with misinformation claims “there are specific…

…includes the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, CBS News, and Agence France-Presse. Comprehensive, accurate tax rates must account for all…

…the New York Times, CBS News, Agence France-Presse, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org. Newspapers have also given the platform of their op-ed pages for others to spread these untruths, including Warren Buffett,…

…and the New York Times show that the vast bulk of illegal immigrants use false identifications that would allow them to vote. Without a hint of skepticism, Cox also relies…

…the New York Times editorial board, which claims that the debt limit “has not served a useful purpose in living memory.” Representatives Ilhan Omar, Jerry Nadler, Nancy Pelosi, Pramila Jayapal,…

…shows that barriers deployed by some countries have not completely stopped worldwide illegal immigration. It does not prove whether or not border walls have been effective. New York Times reporter…

…example, some of the authors wrote a New York Times op-ed declaring that “masks work,” a claim undercut by the following facts from their own study: Their study’s “primary outcome,”…

…And New York Times columnist and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called Bush’s words “ludicrous.” The clear lesson is that it is politically dangerous to tell voters that they need…

…the New York Times, publish articles and commentaries that refer to CO2 as “carbon pollution” with pictures of billowing smokestacks, such as these: The fact is that none of the…

By James D. Agresti December 3, 2012 Revised 12/6/12 In the op-ed pages of last week’s New York Times, Warren Buffett again called for increased taxes on “the wealthy.” Buffett,…

…misleading narratives in his recent New York Times commentary. These pertain to (1) the negative effects of higher tax rates, (2) the notion that his proposed “minimum tax” will stop…

By James D. Agresti November 8, 2020 Based on current population data from the Census Bureau and voting data from previous elections, Just Facts has conducted a study to estimate…

…to the jurisdiction” but claiming that it includes illegal immigrants. This includes, for example, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, PolitiFact, and CBS News. The common thread…

By James D. Agresti May 22, 2015 Revised 6/2/15 New York Times economics analyst Eduardo Porter recently penned two columns about income inequality in which he claimed that the “job…

…OSHA and the CDC—YouTube purged it with callous disregard for the health of people, especially children. Likewise, the New York Times recently reported that YouTube suspended conservative talk show host…