Gray Lady

Unlike our own raucous and disputatious hacks, US commentators tend to be judicious pipe-suckers who take themselves and their "insider" status exceedingly seriously: not for nothing is the New York Times known as the Gray Lady.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Francis Wheen 2011

Unlike our own raucous and disputatious hacks, US commentators tend to be judicious pipe-suckers who take themselves and their "insider" status exceedingly seriously: not for nothing is the New York Times known as the Gray Lady.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Francis Wheen 2011

Eventually he ends up with a mysterious queen known as the Gray Lady.

Anne Bishop Freedomstar 2010

Eventually he ends up with a mysterious queen known as the Gray Lady.

Archive 2010-05-01 Freedomstar 2010

Should his members vote to send him back into the ring with management, he could very well emerge as the hard-spined hero who had the gall to stare down the Gray Lady.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

So our little Bad News Bears are on par with the Gray Lady.

Why it's great the Times won 2 Pulitzers Peter Schorsch 2009

The new information it reveals focuses on the private matters of the candidate, and relies entirely on the anecdotal evidence of McCain's former staffers to justify the piece--both personal and anecdotal elements unusual in the Gray Lady.

"What's most remarkable about the article is that it appeared in the paper at all." Ann Althouse 2008

FIRE could use the help of the Gray Lady in fighting campus censorship, but apparently we'll have to keep waiting.

Greg Lukianoff: New York Times Disappoints 2008

Or rather, what is good for the Fox is good for the Gray Lady.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Question for Fairness Doctrine Supporters: 2007

Heceta Head Lighthouse is said to be haunted by the ghost of the Gray Lady, also known as “Rue”.

2007 February | Scary For Kids 2007