Tavernise

Reporter Sabrina Tavernise went to the downtrodden town of Gallipolis, Ohio, and collected a grab bag of sympathetic liberal anecdotes about government workers threatened by a bill that would restrict public-sector unions, for Wednesday's "Ohio Town Sees Public Job As Only Route To Middle Class."

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Tavernise focused solely on the plight of low-income workers, including unionized government workers, while failing to mention the state's $8 billion deficit a number included only in an Associated Press sidebar story, "Governor's Budget Seeks To Limit Union Influence."

Fighting Spending Cuts in Ohio, NYT Focuses on Union Jobs, Not $8B Deficit Clay Waters 2011

Tavernise described Gallipolis as "a faded town on the Ohio River, one whose fortunes fell with the decline in industries like steel in bigger cities along the river."

Fighting Spending Cuts in Ohio, NYT Focuses on Union Jobs, Not $8B Deficit Clay Waters 2011

"The reports make it clear that most civilians, by far, were killed by other Iraqis," Sabrina Tavernise and Andrew W. Lehren wrote in the New York Times last week, subtly downplaying American responsibility for the horror that Iraq has gone through over the past seven-plus years.

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Tavernise forwarded the liberal claim that wages have stagnated over the last few decades, without any countervailing conservative context.

Fighting Spending Cuts in Ohio, NYT Focuses on Union Jobs, Not $8B Deficit Clay Waters 2011

Tavernise then quoted a left-wing professor as an income expert.

Fighting Spending Cuts in Ohio, NYT Focuses on Union Jobs, Not $8B Deficit Clay Waters 2011

On February 23 Tavernise, writing with A.G. Sulzberger called the Tea Party movement "far-right": "Taking a cost-cutting position against unions is part of the mantra for far-right groups like the Tea Party, and not necessarily unpopular."

Fighting Spending Cuts in Ohio, NYT Focuses on Union Jobs, Not $8B Deficit Clay Waters 2011

"The reports make it clear that most civilians, by far, were killed by other Iraqis," Sabrina Tavernise and Andrew W. Lehren wrote in the New York Times last week, subtly downplaying American responsibility for the horror that Iraq has gone through over the past seven-plus years.

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According to Tavernise, "conspiracy theory is a national sport in Pakistan," and the United States in particular "loom [s] so large" among Pakistanis "that it sometimes seems to be responsible for everything that goes wrong here."

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Niko Tavernise Director Darren Aronofsky, left, with Vincent Cassel on the set of ' Black Swan, ' which opens next Friday.

' Steve Dollar 2010