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Opinion Michelle Malkin

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Michelle Malkin’s column appears in nearly 200 papers nationwide. Her first book, “Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores,” was a New York Times bestseller.

Michelle Malkin – Wed May 21, 3:00 am ET

Creators Syndicate – Conflict of interest stories make great front-page headlines — except when the newspaper that revels in breaking them is itself in the middle of an ethical morass. Take The New York Times.

Jennifer 8. Lee, one of the muckraking newspaper’s reporters, recently boasted on Twitter that the Paper of Record has now "sold $2 million worth of Obama merchandise (book, commemorative editions, etc.)." The president, she noted chirpily, "is good for the bottom line." This lucrative media-government partnership is on proud display at the Times’ online Barack Obama store, where readers can buy mugs, books and framed photos of the newspaper’s political boosterism.

A press plate of the Times’ Obama inauguration front page goes for $149. A "set of Obama victory coffee mugs" sells for $24.95. And for only $1,129, you can own a signed and framed messianic photo of Obama taken by Times photographer Damon Winter — and neutrally titled "Shining Moment," with the candidate in artsy silhouette as a sunburst illuminates the scenery.

“En la campaña de Obama triunfó la comunidad”

El País (España)

Rahaf Harfoush, voluntaria de la campaña de comunicación ‘online’ del ahora presidende de EE UU, explica la claves de su elección

“La campaña de Barack Obama fue innovadora de principio a fin. No sólo por el uso de los medios sociales en Internet sino por la capacidad que éstos tienen para conectar a la gente entre sí. La tecnología cambia nuestro comportamiento, pero sobre todo fortalece las relaciones”, asegura Rahaf Harfoush. Esta joven siria de 25 años lo dejó todo para vivir “la mayor experiencia de mi vida” durante los meses que duró la campaña del candidato demócrata a la Casa Blanca y hoy presidente de EE UU. Afincada en Toronto, Harfoush llevaba a cabo un estudio sobre el impacto de las redes sociales entre los jóvenes cuando fue “fichada” para coordinar a los voluntarios en Internet desde el cuartel general del candidato en Chicago. “Éramos entre 30 y 60 personas, según la época. Éramos una mezcla de profesionales y voluntarios. Unos venían por dos semanas. Otros nos quedamos tres meses. Lo que más me sigue sorprendiendo es que tanta gente como yo fuera capaz de dejarlo todo (casa, trabajo…) para vivir esta situación”.

Los Pulitzer coronan al ‘The New York Times’

 

 ELPAÍS.com – Nueva York – 20/04/2009

El diario The New York Times ha sido el vencedor absoluto de la 93ª edición de los prestigiosos Premios Pulitzer que concede la Universidad de Columbia, al alzarse con cinco galardones, en las categorías de Investigación, Crítica, Internacional y Reportaje Gráfico y Noticias de Ultima Hora. Los cinco premios de 2008 suman un total de 101 galardones para el Times, el medio con más distinciones desde que se empezaron a conceder estos premios en 1917, considerados por unanimidad el máximo reconocimiento periodístico en EE UU. Además, es la segunda mejor cosecha para el periódico, sólo superada por la de 2002, año en que se hizo con siete premios y por The Washington Post, que en la anterior convocatoria ganó seis galardones.

A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / White House Courts Investors

By Daniel Politi 

The New York Times leads with the Obama administration’s busy Sunday, when officials went on a charm offensive to try to convince private investors to participate in the government’s long-awaited effort to remove troubled assets from banks’ balance sheets. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will officially unveil the plan’s details today, but officials were already out in full force yesterday to motivate private investors to take the handsome government subsidies and buy up the troubled assets. The Washington Post leads with key administration officials making it pretty clear that the White House isn’t too happy about the idea of recovering bonuses through taxes. Although some of the administration’s top economic officials were careful to emphasize that the public has a right to feel angry about the bonuses, they said it’s not a good idea to use the tax code to target a small group of people.

 

A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / Obama Demands a Refund

By Daniel Politi

The New York Times and Washington Post lead with, and everyone else fronts, the continuing fallout from the $165 million in bonuses that American International Group handed out to employees who were at least partly responsible for the insurance giant’s fall from grace. President Obama ordered his administration to “pursue every legal avenue to block these bonuses” that started to go out Friday. Separately, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he would subpoena the company to find out details about the bonuses and their recipients.

 

 

A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / Geithner to Europe: Let the Money Flow

By Daniel Politi

The New York Times leads with a look at how fraud prosecutions will be coming soon to a courtroom near you. Attorneys general across the country have started to get the ball rolling, and the federal government is expected to get in on the action soon. The Washington Post leads with the Obama administration’s call to boost the International Monetary Fund’s war chest, which also came with a push to get other countries, particularly in Europe, to boost their stimulus spending. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Congress will be asked to approve $100 billion more to the IMF’s fund to help struggling nations.