Posted on 08/17/2019 8:28:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The New York Times plans to shift its coverage of President Trump from whether he colluded with Russia to race, the paper’s executive editor Dean Baquet said during a recent staff meeting, according to a transcript of the meeting posted by Slate.com. “And I mean race in terms of not only African Americans and their relationship with Donald Trump, but Latinos and immigration,” he said, according to the transcript of the meeting, which reportedly took place on Monday.
Baquet said the paper now has to “regroup” and shift its resources and emphasis from the Russia story to the race story.
“We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well. Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story. I’d love your help with that,” he said.
“In the coming weeks, we’ll be assigning some new people to politics who can offer different ways of looking at the world. We’ll also ask reporters to write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions. I really want your help in navigating this story,” he said.
Baquet described in the decision to shift from the Russia story — which he called “Chapter 1 of the story of Donald Trump” — to race and how the paper was caught a “bit a little tiny flat-footed” after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony.
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This should be the ‘smoking gun’ that proves teh NYT is nothing more than a group of political hacks, working in tandem with the DNC.
The national ‘Paper of Record’ my a$$....................
Whoever leaked this deserves a Medal of Honor.
I hope we make something BIG over this.
The Russia Hoax smear FAILED, so now they are trying a Racism Hoax smear!
Virtue-signaling leftist whites are NOT guilt-ridden; they always seem to keep a lot of space (and plenty of cops) between themselves and any black population. White guilt is a myth; it existed until whites realized that decades of affirmative action and de facto reparations via welfare had produced nothing but racial hatred.
The left has watered down the strength of accusations of racism by targeting a president who had spent decades in the public eye without the “racist” label. Now it means “enemy of the left”, nothing more.
<< “We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well.”
Where “cover one story” = knowingly push a false narrative.
And now they’re on to propagating the next Big Lie with clear consciences due to their Marxist ends justify the means mindset.
Third great truth: first don’t start a two front land war in Eurasia, two,don’t go head to head with a Sycilian when death is on the table and third, don’t make your executive a man who’s last name is a French roll (or pastry, I forget which).
“The left has watered down the strength of accusations of racismow... Now it means “enemy of the left”, nothing more.”
Excellent point. I’m a proud “racist”.
LOL - good one joegoeny
Thanks; same here - along with whatever other labels they have for free thinkers.
How to address charges of alleged racism by Trump in the past? For example, the Trump Village discrimination settlement, or the story that Trump moved black guests from a section of a casino at the request of other guests?
I honestly never heard of those things.
Trump was on TV for decades without accusations of racism; many blacks aren’t buying it.
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