Evaluation of New York Times Stories

In this blog post, I will detail the stories from the opinion and political columns from The New York Times.

Steve Rhodes, "big iPhone in Apple store window displaying New York Times." 6/27/2007. via flickr. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic.

The stories from The New York Times that I have chosen come from the Opinion column and the Political column, specifically the former being linked here and the latter being linked here.

The opinion story, titled "Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination" follows Hillary Clinton specifically as the main character, followed behind with many mentions of names such as Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley, with comparisons between Hillary Clinton and a blanket mention of all of the Republican candidates. The article focuses on Hillary's accomplishments throughout her long political career and why she is the best choice for the Democratic nomination.

The story goes over her career, particularly her most recent career from 2008-2012 as Secretary of State for President Obama. The story focuses on all of her accomplishments that she has made in Washington with highlights in her foreign policy.

There is much debate over this article, with over 2,000 comments posted either supporting or disagreeing with The New York Times endorsement of Hillary Clinton. These are everyday people who either read the paper itself or had seen the title through social media and took to the comments section to give their opinion.

Many disagree with Hillary as a candidate due to her incidents such as the event in Benghazi and her ties to Wall Street, and are either supporting a Republican candidate or the other major candidate for the Democrats, Bernie Sanders. The stake of debates such as these are huge for the candidates because it is the people commenting and those with such strong opinions that will show up to the polls in the coming months.

The political story, titled "Our Man in Iowa: A Signal of Who Might Win the Caucuses" specifically follows a reporter as he goes to Iowa and notes the various tension as the primary polls begin to come out. Specifically detailing the similarities of the main characters of this story, Marco Rubio and his similarities to Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.

The specific events of this story take place in the state of Iowa as the coming polls from The Des Moines Register are being released. This poll is acclaimed for it's accuracy, specifically regarding it's ability to correctly predict the outcome of the primary election.

There is not much disagreement going on with this story, specifically because the poll has yet to be released and the similarities between Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio can not be fully founded until after the fact.