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NYT Corrects MIA Article

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:43:00 CDT

You win this round, MIA: After the rapper posted secretly-recorded audio clips from her interview with Lynn Hirschberg, the New York Times Magazine added an editor’s note correcting Hirschberg’s article. “While MIA did make those remarks” in question, “she did not make the entire statement at the same point in...

MIA Pens Song for 'Racist' NYT Reporter

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:37:40 CDT

MIA isn't stopping at sharing Lynn Hirschberg’s phone number with the Twitterverse in retaliation for the reporter’s unflattering New York Times Magazine profile of the singer. MIA's latest move: a song for Hirschberg—aptly titled “IM A SINGER”—which poses the lyrical question, “Why the hell would journalists be thick...

Miffed MIA Tweets Times Reporter's Phone Number

Kevin Spak — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:45:00 CDT

Maya Arulpragasam, aka MIA, must have really hated Lynn Hirschberg's piece about her in New York Times Magazine , because she's just plastered Hischberg's cell phone number on Twitter—pretending it's her own. “CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill b taking...

Post Snags 4 Pulitzers, Times 3; Enquirer Shut Out

M. Morris — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:06:46 CDT

The Washington Post won four Pulitzer Prizes today, one more than the archrival New York Times —and four more than the National Enquirer, which entered its coverage of the John Edwards sex scandal . In a breakthrough for online journalism, Sheri Fink of ProPublica won for an investigation of euthanasia at...

Pals Reid and Lieberman in Spat Over Trash Talk

Harry Kimball — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:22:23 CST

Harry Reid can't get a break this week. Just as the flap over his use of the radioactive word "negro" was beginning to fade, the New York Times quoted him, in a preview of an upcoming magazine story, as trash-talking his supposed pal Joe Lieberman. The Times cited an unnamed...

Times Columnist William Safire Dead at 79

M. Morris — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:54:42 CDT

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist William Safire died today outside Washington, the paper reports. He was 79 and suffered from cancer. A onetime speechwriter for Richard Nixon, Safire, a self-described "libertarian conservative," used his background as a reporter and love for English usage to punch up his op-ed column,...