The New York Times Regularly Publishes Falsehoods That Spur Violent Unrest and Civic Dysfunction
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…
Read moreThe New York Times’ Brazenly False “Fact Check” About Trump’s Impeachment Trial
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…
Read moreNew York Times Spreads Falsehood That Motivated Murders of Police
By James D. Agresti August 8, 2019 This week, the New York Times published an article that gives credence to a fiction that stoked riots in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked the…
Read moreGenuine Facts About Omicron, Delta, Naturally Acquired Immunity, and Vaccines
…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…
Read moreCritics Fail to Debunk Explosive Study on Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…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,…
Read moreMedia Repeatedly Deceives Public in Hobby Lobby Coverage
…the words of New York Times deputy editorial page editor Trish Hall, “the facts in a piece must be supported and validated. You can have any opinion you would like,…
Read moreThe Hard Facts on Covid-19 Science Denial
…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…
Read moreMedia Misinformation About Arming Teachers
…the process.” Likewise, the New York Times editorial board wrote that “many deranged mass murderers expect to die themselves during their killing sprees. It’s almost laughable to believe that the…
Read moreMedia Titans Subvert Reality About Biden/Ukraine Profiteering
…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…
Read moreSocial Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide With Leftism, Not Racism
…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…
Read moreHas Global Warming Turned the North Pole Into a Lake?
…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…
Read moreElon Musk is Right and the NY Times is Wrong About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens
…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…
Read moreSmoking Gun: Newly Discovered Emails Confirm Joe Biden Obstructed Justice For His Son’s Foreign Business Deal
…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,…
Read moreDo Large National Debts Harm Economies?
…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…
Read moreDeadly Falsehoods About the Orlando Shooting and Gun Control
…New York Times reported that the shooter used “an assault rifle.” The Huffington Post published an article entitled “Here’s What You Need To Know About The Weapons Of War Used…
Read moreMedia and Politicians Twist Trump’s Words About Charlottesville
…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…
Read moreMedia Outlets Stir Racial Strife and Slander Trump for Urging Governors to Protect People’s Rights
…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…
Read moreThe Real “Big Money” in Politics
…combined total of $5.5 billion in the latest presidential and congressional election cycles (2015–2018). Over this period, the New York Times corporation had revenues of $6.6 billion—or 20% more than…
Read moreDoes the Obama Mandate Force You to Pay for Abortions?
…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…
Read moreProgressive Myths About Mass Shootings and Weapons of War
…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”…
Read moreMedia Hypocrisy on Inciting Violence
By James D. Agresti August 13, 2018 The New York Times recently published a commentary by Bret Stephens titled “Trump Will Have Blood on His Hands.” In it, he repeats…
Read moreFour Fabrications About Firearms
By James D. Agresti October 19, 2017 According to two recent op-eds published by the New York Times: “more guns means more murder.” “more guns means less safety.” “a gun…
Read moreVirginia Governor Issues False Statement Defending Late-Term Abortions
…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…
Read moreEverything You’ve Heard About the Debt Limit is Wrong
…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…
Read moreFDA Violated Own Safety and Efficacy Standards in Approving Covid-19 Vaccines For Children
…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…
Read moreNY Times Publishes Slanderous Video About the Death of Trayvon Martin
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…
Read moreYes, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are Planning to Legalize Abortion Up To Birth
…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…
Read moreHas Global Warming Made Rainstorms More Intense?
By James D. Agresti February 4, 2016 In a recent article about global warming adorned with pictures of flooding and drought, New York Times environmental journalist Justin Gillis wrote: A…
Read moreSolar Energy Costs and Impacts
…the opposite. For instance, when the New York Times conducted an analysis of corporate taxes and found that large oil companies pay an average effective corporate income tax rate of…
Read moreAs Murders Soar, FBI Buries the Data
…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…
Read moreMyths about School Choice and Betsy DeVos
By James D. Agresti February 7, 2017 In an op-ed for the New York Times, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) alleges that she is voting against Betsy DeVos for Secretary…
Read moreThe School Funding Inequity Farce
…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…
Read moreFive Fallacies About Guns and Violence
…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,…
Read moreMedia Promotes Junk Science on Fetal Pain
…experiencing pain at least by 20 weeks after fertilization,’ though medical evidence does not support this.” – New York Times editorial board “We reviewed the literature and spoke with several…
Read moreMajor Media Stories Ignore Immigration Status of High-Profile Murderer
…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,…
Read moreFinally: Professors and Media Tout Powerful Covid-Killing Technology
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…
Read moreBlack People Do Not Suffer Disproportionately From Police Brutality
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.”…
Read morePublic School Funding Per Student Averages 80% More Than Private Schools
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…
Read moreCovid-19 Is Not a “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated”
…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…
Read moreThe Impact of Obamacare and Ryancare on Medicare
…rate, roughly in line with the rate of overall economic growth.” That ill-fated effort lasted for five years, and in 2002, the New York Times reported: “For the first time,…
Read moreFour Underused Tools to Stop School Shootings
…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…
Read moreLeading Progressives Blame the Wrong Culprit for Rising College Costs
…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…
Read moreClinton and Obama’s Brazen Lie About the Iraq Withdrawal
…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…
Read moreThe “Inflation Reduction Act” Will Do Almost Nothing That Joe Manchin Says It Will
…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…
Read moreIllegal Immigrants Are Far More Likely to Commit Serious Crimes Than the U.S. Public
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…
Read moreThe SAT Is Feeding Students Solar Industry Propaganda
…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…
Read moreMedia Bias Fact Check: Incompetent or Dishonest?
…a brazen lie.” In October 2011, the New York Times reported: “there was an understanding … that a sizable American force would stay in Iraq beyond that date.” the troops…
Read moreEPA’s Lack of Transparency Is a Breeding Ground for Junk Science
By James D. Agresti March 29, 2018 Correction Appended In a recent New York Times op-ed, two former EPA officials criticize a Trump administration plan that would require the EPA…
Read moreObama’s Mandate Imposes His Views on All Americans
By James D. Agresti March 26, 2014 In a blatant inversion of reality, the New York Times editorial board is claiming that corporations want to “impose their religious views on…
Read moreShould the U.S. Adopt Australia’s Strict Gun Laws?
…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…
Read moreThe Effects of Regulations on the Economy
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…
Read moreThe U.S. is a Democratic Constitutional Republic, and Yes, It Matters
…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…
Read moreAdvocates for Social Welfare Benefits Turn the Truth About Federal Spending on Its Head
…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…
Read moreHard Evidence Warranting the Impeachment of Joe Biden
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…
Read moreMisleading Claims that Fuel Hatred Against Police Officers
…provide a factual basis for their accusations. A prime example are the members of the New York Times editorial board, who wrote that a “grim report” by ProPublica shows “that…
Read moreU.S. Life Expectancy Fell With Covid Vax Rollout, NY Times Blames a Lack of Vaccination and White People
…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…
Read moreHow Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence?
By James D. Agresti February 23, 2018 In a New York Times column entitled “How to Reduce Shootings,” Nicholas Kristof writes, “It is true that guns are occasionally used to…
Read moreBernie Sanders’ Education Plan is Rife With Deceit
…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…
Read moreDonald Trump and the Media Agree on Middle-Class Income, and They are Both Wrong
…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…
Read moreKrugman and Obama Mislead on Debts and Deficits
By James D. Agresti March 18, 2013 In a March 10th New York Times column, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote, “we do not, repeat do not, face any kind…
Read moreMost Late-Term Abortions Are Not Done for Medical Reasons
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…
Read morePowerful Groups Are Hiding Facts About Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…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…
Read more2017: The Year in Facts and Falsehoods
…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….
Read moreThink Progress Exaggerates Child Hunger by 8,000%
…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…
Read moreIs Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinction?
…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…
Read moreRape Facts and Falsehoods
…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…
Read moreFetal Pain Facts and Falsehoods
…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…
Read moreIs the Obama Administration Forcing People to Pay for Abortion-Inducing Drugs?
…forced to pay for it through their insurance premiums. Some journalists, such as Robert Pear of the New York Times, reported on this mandate without mentioning the word “abortion, while…
Read moreHow to Separate Fact From Fiction
…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…
Read moreCNN Butchers the Facts on Late-Term Abortions
…“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…
Read moreHow Many Americans Go Hungry?
…Krugman asserts in the New York Times that one in six Americans living below the poverty line suffers from “low food security.” This is officially defined as involving situations in…
Read moreFive Fables About Medicare
…New York Times reported: “For the first time, significant numbers of doctors are refusing to take new Medicare patients, saying the government now pays them too little to cover the…
Read moreDo Those Who Doubt Climate Catastrophism Lack Scientific Credibility?
By James D. Agresti May 20, 2013 Correction Appended “Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears,” declared a recent front page headline in the New York Times. The event that served…
Read moreWidely Touted Study on State and Local Taxes is a Sham
…Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, and the New York Times. For instance, the Times reported that “according to the study, in 2015 the poorest fifth of Americans will pay on…
Read moreReporters Distort the Truth About Government Spending
…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…
Read moreKrugman’s Accounting of the National Debt is Jailworthy
…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…
Read moreSubstantial Numbers of Non-Citizens Vote Illegally in U.S. Elections
…won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Several major media outlets pounced on Trump’s comment. The New York Times, for example, reported that…
Read moreThe School Segregation Farce
…government must do something about it, like for example, go back to the forced busing policies of the 1970s. According to Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, the New York Times, the…
Read morePaul Krugman’s Claims About the Dangers of Government Debt
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…
Read moreRoe v. Wade Allows Abortions for All 9 Months of Pregnancy, Not Just the First 3
By James D. Agresti January 18, 2013 With the 40-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade just days away, media outlets are trumpeting a Pew Research…
Read moreSmearing the South With False Charges of Racism
…in 2001. Beyond claims that specific individuals are “racist,” certain media outlets, activists, and politicians have leveled this charge at broad groups of Americans. For example: The New York Times…
Read moreLack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society
…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…
Read moreSupport for “Soaking the Rich” Is Rooted in Media Misinformation
…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…
Read moreTax Fairness Question at GOP Debate Rooted in Falsehood Spread by Media
…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,…
Read moreUSA Today & Facebook Use Slanderous “Fact Check” to Suppress Facts About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens
…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…
Read moreHunger Games: Reporters and Pundits Greatly Exaggerate Hunger in America
…Paul Kurtz of CBS News, Bob Beckel of Fox News, and Paul Krugman of the New York Times, Stoyan Zaimov of the Christian Post recently made it seem that hunger…
Read moreNewt and the Associated Press Distort Obama’s Born-Alive Abortion Record
…but also the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Fox News, and CNN. Regardless of the AP’s errors, Newt’s statement is inaccurate. Obama did not vote to “protect doctors…
Read moreThe Associated Press Distorts Obama’s Born-Alive Abortion Record
…It is not just the Associated Press that has misapplied the word “fetus” but also the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Fox News, and CNN. Regardless of the…
Read moreActivists and Journalists Mislead the Public About Carbon Pollution
…in humans.” Activists often lump CO2 with highly toxic pollutants (like carbon monoxide and black carbon) by using the catch-all phrase, “carbon pollution.” Media heavyweights, including the New York Times,…
Read moreNew Data on Hunger in the United States
…the data on hunger. By misinterpreting earlier USDA surveys, Paul Krugman of the New York Times and Bob Beckel of Fox News have made similar false claims about hunger in…
Read moreIs President Trump’s Border Wall an Outdated, Ineffective Strategy?
…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…
Read moreFamed Bangladesh Mask Study Excluded Crucial Data
…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,”…
Read moreHow Hard and Effectively do Americans Work?
…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…
Read moreThe Tax Rates of Wall Streeters and Steelworkers
…of those who have done this includes the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, the New York Times, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, CBS, and Agence France-Presse. As a result…
Read moreThe Term “Carbon Pollution” Is Unscientific and Misleading
…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…
Read moreWarren Buffett’s Fraudulent Tax Claims
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,…
Read moreWarren Buffett’s Fraudulent Tax Claims (Part 2)
…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…
Read moreWhat Will Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations Cost and Achieve?
By James D. Agresti May 30, 2014 In an op-ed about the Obama administration’s pending regulation of greenhouse gases from coal-fired electricity plants, Paul Krugman recently declared in his New…
Read moreQuantifying Illegal Votes Cast by Non-Citizens in the Battleground States of the 2020 Presidential Election
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…
Read moreVisa Overstays Don’t Negate the Benefits of Border Barriers
…Peter Baker of the New York Times Furthermore, an examination of first 20 results in Google News for border wall visa overstay did not produce any results that revealed the…
Read moreMyths and Causes of Income Inequality
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…
Read moreThe Emanuel Church Murders and Racial Violence
…Charleston wrote in the New York Times that “we African-Americans have no sanctuary,” face “increasing terror” on “a daily basis,” and are “terrorized by those who use Stand Your Ground…
Read moreObamacare’s Effects on Wages
…University professor, and New York Times columnist: “Oh, and because labor supply will be reduced, wages will go up, not down.” • Dean Baker, Ph.D. economist and co-director of the…
Read moreComing To Grips With the Facts About Masks
…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…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
In 1995, the New York Times reported that “some experts” say “most of the beaches on the East Coast” of the U.S. will “be gone in 25 years” due to…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
…publish articles, commentaries, and videos that influence U.S. elections. For example, Mexican multi-billionaire Carlos Slim became the largest single shareholder of the New York Times Company in 2015 and later…
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