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2019-01-02 Home Front: Politix
Former NYT Editor Claims Paper Went ‘Anti-Trump' for Profit
[NR] Jill Abramson, the erstwhile executive editor of the New York Times, argues in a forthcoming book that her former employer abandoned objectivity in its White House coverage in an effort to pander to its liberal readers.

In the book, Merchants of Truth, Abramson, who served as the Times’s first and only female executive editor until she was fired in 2014, accuses her successor Dean Baquet of allowing the paper’s purportedly straight news coverage to become infected with anti-Trump bias, according to Fox News.

"Though Baquet said publicly he didn’t want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump. Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis," Abramson writes. She further suggests that such biased news coverage is driven by younger staffers who feel the negative implications of the Trump presidency have rendered the journalistic status quo obsolete.

"The more ’woke’ staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump’s presidency obviated the old standards," Abramson writes.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-02 12:04|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top

#1 And are they making a profit?
Posted by Glenmore 2019-01-02 13:07||   2019-01-02 13:07|| Front Page Top

#2 What are these "dangers of Trump’s presidency" they keep talking about? Less regulation? More personal liberties? Less obeisance to the imperial "press"?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-01-02 13:40||   2019-01-02 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The danger is the establishment may have to start working for a living in an honest job.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-02 14:32||   2019-01-02 14:32|| Front Page Top

#4 How much objectivity did the New York Times have to abandon in 2017?
Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-02 19:09||   2019-01-02 19:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Once a whore, always a whore
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-02 20:31||   2019-01-02 20:31|| Front Page Top

#6 What if the NYTs did an honest job of reporting and they sold to an even larger audience as a result. Have they tried that recently?

I think they sold out and went to agenda-driven fake news. They sold out to the Dems and the deep state.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-02 23:02||   2019-01-02 23:02|| Front Page Top

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