"THE (New York Times) PUBLIC EDITOR: Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? By DANIEL OKRENT Published: July 25, 2004
OF course it is.
The fattest file on my hard drive is jammed with letters from the disappointed, the dismayed and the irate who find in this newspaper a liberal bias that infects not just political coverage but a range of issues from abortion to zoology to the appointment of an admitted Democrat to be its watchdog. (That would be me.) By contrast, readers who attack The Times from the left -- and there are plenty -- generally confine their complaints to the paper's coverage of electoral politics and foreign policy.
I'll get to the politics-and-policy issues this fall (I want to watch the campaign coverage before I conclude anything), but for now my concern is the flammable stuff that ignites the right. These are the social issues: gay rights, gun control, abortion and environmental regulation, among others. And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you've been reading the paper with your eyes closed." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/the-public-editor-is-the-new-york-times-a-liberal-newspaper.html
I enjoy her statements about the "weakness" of the NYT. She answers that the employees are so, so talented that other media are always trying to hire them away. LOL. Our major weakness is the talent of our employees. This is the type of tripe recent college graduates spew during their first job interviews.
Make no doubt, her audience is the readers of the NY Times, not FR.