My exact words. Lipstick on the NY Times pig.
Posted on 06/26/2005 12:19:02 PM PDT by Pikamax
Keller Says 'N.Y. Times' Must Look Beyond Its Urban, Liberal Base
By E&P Staff
Published: June 26, 2005 3:00 PM ET
NEW YORK In a lengthy memo published the newspaper's Web site, Bil Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, announced several new policies in response to a recent report by the paper's Credibility Committee. Among them is a fresh attempt to diversify the Times' staff and viewpoints, and not in the usual racial or gender ways, but in political, religious and cultural areas as well.
The aim, he wrote, is "to stretch beyond our predominantly urban, culturally liberal orientation, to cover the full range of our national conversation."
The point, Keller wrote, "is not that we should begin recruiting reporters and editors for their political outlook; it is part of our professional code that we keep our political views out of the paper. The point is that we want a range of experience. We have a recruiting committee that tracks promising outside candidates, and that committee has already begun to consider ways to enrich the variety of backgrounds of our reporters and editors.
"First and foremost we hire the best reporters, editors, photographers and artists in the business. But we will make an extra effort to focus on diversity of religious upbringing and military experience, of region and class."
Keller said there had already been successes, namely, the coverage of conservatives by David Kirkpatrick and Jason DeParle, and a number of recent Magazine pieces. "I intend to keep pushing us in this direction," Keller declared.
He also said that he endorsed the committee’s recommendation "that we cover religion more extensively.... This is important to us not because we want to appease believers or pander to conservatives, but because good journalism entails understanding more than just the neighborhood you grew up in."
E&P will cover other aspects of Keller's memo on Monday.
Yeah. Like that'll happen.
Maybe they'll give Chuck Hagel and John McCain an alternating column to represent the conservative view.
Keller is an evil human being, a guy of genuinely bad character who is proud of it, a man very much like his hero George Soros. I would love to see the New York Times severely reduced in public stature during his editorial tenure, so I pray the movement to broaden its appeal falls way, way short of the mark.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Bwaaaaaaaahahahahhahahah. That's funny, Bill.
Two words - Fox Buttefield.
But...but...but....they've been telling us for all these years that there's no liberal bias at the New York Times...
They wouldn't have been lying to us, would they??
My exact words. Lipstick on the NY Times pig.
The homosexuals at the NY Times have already expanded beyond their atheist views to provide fawning coverage of the cults of scientology and islam. They are still haters of Christianity.
The NYT has painted themselves into a corner.
They have no credibility to hire conservatives and give them control. They would hire fake conservatives like weasley clark or that nutjob, walis, who is consulting christianity for the DNC.
The NYT has to keep left to keep the base that it has. Keep in mind too the NYT readership is also out of the USA to the "I hate america" world. If they suddenly go pro american and antileft, they will kill off their cultivated market.
This effort is alll manure to fool some of the people.
This guy inadvertently admitted that he is neither a believer nor a conservative. You know, those other people. Sounds like he wants the reporters to take dangerous field trips into the uncivilized red states. Meanwhile, the NYT doesn't semm to have any qualms about appeasing non-believers and pandering to liberals!
I'll believe it when I see it. That rag has lost it a long time ago, and I doubt they can ever pull their heads out far enough to get the view of people outside of their bubble.
Does this mean the NY Times will open a regional news desk, focusing on religious, and social, issues in areas surrounding Mobile, Alabama?
Do myopic NY Times editors really care about what happens outside of their little bubble in Manhattan?
The old media newspapers are getting desperate for new subscribers.
A while back the Mpls "Red" Star Tribune released a similar appeal saying something along the lines of, we feel we haven't served or reached out the suburban customers.
I about fell out of me chair laughing. Ya, if one doesn't count the Red Star's institutional hatred of the suburbs as not serving, or reaching out.
We're hurting them, keep up the good work. If you still subscribe, consider canceling the old liberal media subscriptions.
Ya gotta get rid of the queer agenda, Bil. And ya gotta get rid of the liars.
But then who would put out the paper?
At the Times, covering religion means denigrating Christians as gay-hating, science-denying, abortion-opposing yokels and praising Moslems as plucky yet lamblike victims of racial profiling. Keller wants more of the same.
You're not fooling anyone Bil. What kind of a name is that, anyway? What's his real name, Bilington, or some such?
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