Fired from The New York Times over Trump

[Scurrilous]

I was told there was concern, even at the publisher’s level, about one small edit I proposed to a story

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"When I saw that infamous “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism” headline in The New York Times, I was not surprised in the least. And when I learned that it had set off subscription cancellations among outraged readers, I thought: “Finally! What took so long?”

Having spent eight years taking deep daily dives into New York Times stories as a copy editor, I can with confidence impart this bit of news fit to print: The Gray Lady has, ever since Trump’s election, been playing an insidious double game to ensure its survival.

Before Donald Trump began calling it the “failing” New York Times, the paper looked as if it was indeed foundering. In the aftermath of Trump’s shock electoral victory, however, The Times rapidly turned its fortunes around, even becoming the legacy media’s most notable success story in the online age.

How did this happen? Digital subscriptions were key, and many of them came from liberals, most probably despairing Hillary Clinton voters who saw themselves as essentially crowdsourcing the revenue to get the “failing” Times out of trouble and thereby 1) defy their candidate’s vanquisher and 2) assure themselves of a prominent light in the darkness about to descend on the nation under Trump.

But the paper’s anti-Trump rescuers missed a trick.

While The Times did try to reinforce its typical new subscriber’s liberal illusions about the paper (by, say, giving a new prominence to its most liberal opinion columnists, regularly placing them at the top of the home page,) in its actual news coverage or corporate actions it is not especially liberal, compassionate or even just fair. Nor has The Times been particularly harsh on Trump, who is, after all, a colorful hometown character for the paper’s owners and managers, one of the New York media’s most enduring sparring partners and playmates, and now the first U.S. president from New York since Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/23/fired-from-the-new-york-times-over-trump/

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Good read. Thanks. nt

[Thekaspervote]

2. Seldom agree with salon, but they certainly got that one right. I'm done with the nyt

Shitty two siderism... May work for some, not me

[Cha]

3. KR!

"..colorful hometown character.. " trump is a ******* fascist treasonous sociopathic Liar. Nothing "colorful" about him.

Thank you, Scurrilous!

[alwaysinasnit]

4. K&R Thanks for posting.

[Squinch]

5. Yep. This is pretty blatant. I live in NY, but my paper is the Washington Post.

[PJMcK]

6. I now it had zero effect...

...but I canceled my digital subscription to the NY Times. Fuck Dean Bacquet and fuck the NY Times' "balanced" reporting.

I get better news coverage and opinions from Democratic Underground.

[crickets]

7. Goes to show Dean Baquet has no business being editor of any kind. K&R