Posted on 01/02/2019 10:31:00 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Jill Abramson, the Harvard lecturer who served as the first and only female executive editor of The New York Times from 2011 to 2014, has some harsh words for her former employer in her upcoming book, saying its “unmistakably anti-Trump” agenda risks damaging its credibility.
In “Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts,” reviewed by Fox News, Ms. Abramson complains about the unabashed liberal bent taken on by her successor, executive editor Dean Baquet.
“Though Baquet said publicly he didn’t want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump,” she wrote, according to Fox News. “Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis.”
Citing late New York Times owner and publisher Adolph Ochs, Ms. Abramson wrote that “the more anti-Trump the Times was perceived to be, the more it was mistrusted for being biased. Ochs’s vow to cover the news without fear or favor sounded like an impossible promise in such a polarized environment.”
Ms. Abramson said part of the problem lies within the generational split at The Times, with younger writers coming to accept a more opinionated form of journalism.
“The more ‘woke’ staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump’s presidency...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Too late.
That time has long since passed.
The NYT and other lame stream media are already seeing declines in their audience, but with their 24/7 Trump hate their demise is just that much closer.
Haters gonna hate.
No sale, Jill.
The fawning coverage by NYT of your god the Fraud during your 2011-2014 tenure has completely eroded YOUR credibility.
Pangs of conscience from a member of the Ministry of Propaganda?
A hundred truths cannot erase one deceitful lie.
I really have a problem with this whole thing. Ms. Abramson was not the President of a fair and balanced source of journalism. Her Times was not producing hard hitting Obama pieces. If you remember, the Times had scandals of writers who wrote stories by copying local reporters work, and creating fictional accounts of interviews. This was rampant before Ms. Abramson got her job at the Times. But it illustrates that journalism was never a required skill set at the Times. Story telling is the real craft at the Times. They like to take the set of facts that come to Times reporters by swamp leakers, and use these nuggets to form the basis for a story that illustrates the propaganda points they wish to push that week. Journalism is just a marketing idea. Like Coke, its the real thing. Or Ford, Quality is Job #1.
At least she has her Obama doll to console her.
Oakrent - an early New York Times Public Editor tried to warn the Times of major storms on the horizon - they didn't renew his contract.
It is often claimed that journalism is “the first draft of history.” So much the worse, if so, for history.Rules such as “If it bleeds, it leads,” “‘Man Bites Dog,’ not ‘Dog Bites Man’,” “Always meet your deadline,” and “There’s nothing more worthless than yesterday’s newspaper” filter historical perspective out of the news.
Journalism is emphatically not about historical perspective.
The perspective of journalism is inherently at odds with the perspective of conservatism.
And this is “news?” Everyone who has a brain knows that the NYT is biased in the extreme against Trump. You just have to wonder, who out there (and what kind of mind) do those that think the NYT is actually reporting real news? I mean besides a CNN or WA Post reporter.
In related news: pro wrestling is fake! Headline from the New York Times. All the news that’s printed to fit.
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