Add American chauvinism to a list of NBC Olympic grievances that include time delayed broadcasting, pathetic Internet coverage, and the idiotic decision to put last night’s USA vs. Canada hockey game on MSNBC instead of NBC. And now this, dare we say scathing, piece from the NYT‘s Alessandra Stanley.

President Obama has a lot to talk about during his State of the Union address last night. Perhaps most notably he didn’t get around to talking about health care until more than 30 minutes into the address. Also, he didn’t get heckled this time around…technically speaking. Here’s a look at some of the reactions from across the board.

New York Times TV Critic Alessandra Stanley‘s takeaway from the move is that Diane Sawyer taking over for Charlie Gibson means she, Katie Couric and Brian Williams are now “evenly matched in looks and take-charge personality.” Also, from earlier in the column: “Ms. Sawyer appears to have the same high-octane drive and ambition as Brian Williams and Katie Couric.” But wait – looks?!

New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley record of making errors is such that she makes for a very easy target. This time it is one of the subjects of Stanley’s recent piece on the video essay “Poliwood” who is calling the error-prone writer out on her inaccuracies. Namely, Hollywood director Barry Levinson. But does he actually have a case?

The New York Times is rarely a bastion of backlash, but for Tina Fey — whose NBC comedy 30 Rock had its fourth season premiere last night — TV critic Alessandra Stanley will make an exception. In her review yesterday, Stanley was especially pointed with detailed jabs at the much-loved comedienne. And yet she loved her last year!

Did President Obama’s Sunday media blitz make a difference? It’s hard to tell, though the headlines would suggest that the takeaway thus far seems to be split between issues of race and Obama’s ability to manage the media. So what if anything did this uber media savvy President have to say about the press is spends so much of his time courting? Mostly that the media loves rude. And he said it a lot.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs seems like a nice enough guy. He has a sense of humor about his work, he maintains a friendly banter with reporters, and he was even the goalie of the North Carolina State Wolfpack soccer team. But Gibbs largely gets a free pass from the media for his many blunders. How does he do it?

Mystery solved! The reason Alessandra Stanley remains at the New York Times despite a record of errors that threatens to eclipse her writing skills is that she is, the words of executive editor Bill Keller “a brilliant critic.” Keller also discloses who is responsible for the NYT‘s favoritism towards certain writers.

Alessandra Stanley just can’t catch a break. First Katie Couric hung her out to dry last week on the Evening News for her error riddled Walter Cronkite piece, which ran on the homepage of the NYT.com shortly after his death. And now, two weeks later, not only is the New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt having a go at her — and her editors — the paper is re-assigning a single copy editor to Stanley to check all her facts.

A week after the fact, Katie Couric took New York Times writer Alessandra Stanley to task at the end of last night’s broadcast over an error-filled article Stanley had penned in the NYT following Walter Cronkite‘s death. And while she doesn’t bother to call Stanley out by name, it’s hard not to conclude this may be belated retribution for a unflattering and much-read piece Stanley wrote about Couric back in 2005. Revenge is a dish best served cold!

Journalists, if you are going to spout off about Twitter, I beg you: Do some research. This has occurred to me frequently since Twitter hit the big time earlier this year, mostly because there have been frequent glaring errors on the part of “mainstream” journalists who write precious little articles about the microblogging service. On [...]