That has not hurt business.
Their stock price is at a 15 year high.
Posted on 06/09/2020 7:05:06 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
In a lecture about erosion of standards at The NY Times, I borrowed a exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.”
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asks. “Two ways,” Mike responds. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
For the Times, “suddenly” has arrived.
Its standards are now bankrupt.
The revolt of the paper’s newsroom over publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed and the craven surrender of management marks the end of any semblance of basic fairness.
Stick a fork in the Gray Lady.
Last week’s developments amounted to a hostile takeover of the paper. It’s an apt description because the 800 staff members who objected to the publication of Cotton’s support for using the military to quell the riots declared their hostility to the fundamental traditions of journalism.
Previous op-ed pieces from American adversaries — including Vladimir Putin and the Taliban — brought no such staff complaints. Nor did one from Turkey’s strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the world leader in locking up journalists. But Tom Cotton, an American senator, was beyond the pale.
For a day, the battle over his piece was touch and go, but then defenders of traditional standards raised the white flag.
Actually, they did something far worse. They switched sides and attacked the cause they had defended hours earlier.
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger said “I believe in the principle of openness to a range of opinions, even those we may disagree with, and this piece was published in that spirit.”
By Friday’s group gripe session, he was calling the same article “contemptuous” and said it “should not have been published.”
In between, the paper gave him cover to flip-flop by saying the process leading to publication did not meet the paper’s “standards.”
From now on, nothing published in the Times will challenge their bias.
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This is news?
The papers were hurt by the lockdown (the only good that came out of it). Hurt them more by NOT buying one and NOT clicking on advertisers on their websites.
Is this slimy rag still the paper of record?
“Water is wet”.
USA’s version of Pravda.
They are the “paper of record” for the Deep State.
For the rest of us, not so much....
AM Rosenthal was the last great editor. His son was a disaster.
“Leftists are in firm control at The New York Times”
Duh! And the sky is blue.
Duh...
The Times exists to get us through the toilet paper shortage, not much else. However, I’d rather use a corncob than let that rag get anywhere near my back door.
Uh....newsflash!
Really, the Commies took that rag over many years ago. Tell us all something that we don’t already know.
Newspapers, and Pay-phones, and Betamax...Oh My!
You mean Walter Duranty was a Commie?
LMAO
All 13 readers of the Slimes are being hoodwinked!
Nothing’s new about that!
That has not hurt business.
Their stock price is at a 15 year high.
NYT stock is worth $6.76 billion.
From the chart it looks like the election of Donald Trump was the best thing that ever happened to the Times,
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