New York Times editor says Trump has put his reporters' lives at risk

[Judi Lynn]

Dean Baquet decries abuse of journalists and defends not calling president racist

Jim Waterson Media editor
Mon 18 Nov 2019 02.00 EST

The executive editor of the New York Times has accused Donald Trump of putting his reporters’ lives at risk by subjecting them to personal abuse and describing them as “enemies of the people”.

Dean Baquet, who has led the news outlet during one of the most tumultuous periods in its history, said the US president’s history of verbal attacks on journalists such as the New York Times’s political reporter Maggie Haberman was “appalling” and risked having serious consequences.

“I think his personal attacks on reporters, including Maggie, are pretty awful and pretty unpresidential,” he said. “I think personal attacks on journalists, when he calls them names, I think he puts their lives at risk.

“I think that when he actually calls reporters names, says they’re un-American, says they’re enemies of the people ... that phrase has a deep history. I think when he says that, it is an appalling attack on the press.”

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/18/new-york-times-editor-says-trump-has-put-his-reporters-lives-at-risk

[Wounded Bear]

1. Well, d'uh...

Trumplodytes be crazy.

[PJMcK]

2. Dean Bacquet is a terrible executive editor

He goes along to get along.

I cancelled my digital subscription to the Times because of his failed leadership.