Posted on 01/02/2019 7:24:47 AM PST by knighthawk
A former executive editor of the New York Times says the paper’s news pages, the home of its straight-news coverage, have become “unmistakably anti-Trump.”
Jill Abramson, the veteran journalist who led the newspaper from 2011 to 2014, says the Times has a financial incentive to bash the president and that the imbalance is helping to erode its credibility.
In a soon-to-be published book, “Merchants of Truth,” that casts a skeptical eye on the news business, Abramson defends the Times in some ways but offers some harsh words for her successor, Dean Baquet. And Abramson, who was the paper’s only female executive editor until her firing, invoked Steve Bannon’s slam that in the Trump era the mainstream media have become the “opposition party.”
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The New York Times did not have any real credibility even before Trump ever entered politics.
They have completely removed the mask now and are exposed as the flagship of the Ministry of Propaganda.
“Eroding” the NY Times credibility?
Next I’m going to hear that Stormy Daniels’ reputation could be in danger of being tarnished!
Mitt Romney would disagree with this vehemently. In Mitt’s world, there isn’t a bad thing to say about a democrat and a good thing to say about a Republican. Thus, the New York Times merely reflects what is Mitt’s and the rest of the RINO’s status quo.
The NYT is biased! In other breaking news, water is wet and fire is hot.
Sounds, to me, like someone who sold out her own credibility to be editor of the Times and now that she was ousted is crying alligator tears about everyone who does the same.
Astute observation
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