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Keller Says 'N.Y. Times' Must Look Beyond Its Urban, Liberal Base
Editor and Publisher ^ | 06/26/05 | E&P Staff

Posted on 06/26/2005 12:19:02 PM PDT by Pikamax

Keller Says 'N.Y. Times' Must Look Beyond Its Urban, Liberal Base

By E&P Staff

Published: June 26, 2005 3:00 PM ET

NEW YORK In a lengthy memo published the newspaper's Web site, Bil Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, announced several new policies in response to a recent report by the paper's Credibility Committee. Among them is a fresh attempt to diversify the Times' staff and viewpoints, and not in the usual racial or gender ways, but in political, religious and cultural areas as well.

The aim, he wrote, is "to stretch beyond our predominantly urban, culturally liberal orientation, to cover the full range of our national conversation."

The point, Keller wrote, "is not that we should begin recruiting reporters and editors for their political outlook; it is part of our professional code that we keep our political views out of the paper. The point is that we want a range of experience. We have a recruiting committee that tracks promising outside candidates, and that committee has already begun to consider ways to enrich the variety of backgrounds of our reporters and editors.

"First and foremost we hire the best reporters, editors, photographers and artists in the business. But we will make an extra effort to focus on diversity of religious upbringing and military experience, of region and class."

Keller said there had already been successes, namely, the coverage of conservatives by David Kirkpatrick and Jason DeParle, and a number of recent Magazine pieces. "I intend to keep pushing us in this direction," Keller declared.

He also said that he endorsed the committee’s recommendation "that we cover religion more extensively.... This is important to us not because we want to appease believers or pander to conservatives, but because good journalism entails understanding more than just the neighborhood you grew up in."

E&P will cover other aspects of Keller's memo on Monday.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billkeller; diversity; keller; liberalmedia; media; mediabias; newyorkgaytimes; nyt; shiiteforbrains
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To: Pikamax

Dan Rather onced declared the NY Times a "middle of the road" newspaper.

That alone speaks volumes.


21 posted on 06/26/2005 12:52:52 PM PDT by NewMediaFan (Fake but accurate)
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To: Dan from Michigan
Paul Krugman hahahahaha!

Maureen Dowd hahahahahaha!

Frank Rich hahahahahahaa!!!!!!!

22 posted on 06/26/2005 12:55:28 PM PDT by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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To: Pikamax

Must hurt when those circulation figures go down. Even effete liberal snobs need to eat.


23 posted on 06/26/2005 12:55:59 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Try permaculture and get back to the Founders intent. Mr. Jefferson lives!)
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To: Pikamax

“A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk.”

Bill Keller 2/17/05


24 posted on 06/26/2005 12:57:28 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Maceman

The last Republican they (NYT) endorsed for President was in 1956.


25 posted on 06/26/2005 12:57:54 PM PDT by philo ("We not only sing , but we can dance just as good as we walk." Archie Bell)
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To: Pikamax
You're sure this is serious. I mean, it didn't come from Scrappleface or the Onion, did it? Assuming this story is true, then Bill Keller has correctly diagnosed why the NY Times is going down the journalistic dumper. There is also a zero chance that he, of all people, can possibly lead such a change.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "An Open Letter to Justice Kennedy"

26 posted on 06/26/2005 12:58:03 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Anyone who takes the MSM seriously, deserves the likes of Dick Durbin.)
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To: Pikamax

Would it ever occur to them to simply print the facts and let their biases remain on the editorial pages where we can agree or disagree.


27 posted on 06/26/2005 12:58:31 PM PDT by OldFriend (AMERICAN WARS SET MEN FREE)
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To: keat
"the paper's Credibility Committee"

That pretty much says it all.

Do ALL newspapers have a credibility committee?

LOL

28 posted on 06/26/2005 12:59:03 PM PDT by CatQuilt (GLSEN is evil)
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To: Pikamax
Hyenas can't change their spots.
29 posted on 06/26/2005 12:59:17 PM PDT by FreedomSurge
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To: Pikamax

You can just tell he understands the Slimes' real problem.


30 posted on 06/26/2005 1:02:02 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Pikamax

The cancer is incurable and terminal.


31 posted on 06/26/2005 1:02:21 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: LibFreeOrDie

"All the News that's been Fitted for Fools"!


32 posted on 06/26/2005 1:07:06 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Even when a dog discovers he is barking up a wrong tree, he can still take a leak on it!)
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To: Pikamax

Sure. They could invite Frances Kissling to write about Catholics. Maybe some clintonoid from Little Rock could represent the Evangelicals. Ward Churchill could speak for flyover country. Then they could get . . . .


33 posted on 06/26/2005 1:08:10 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Pikamax

34 posted on 06/26/2005 1:16:56 PM PDT by NewMediaFan (Fake but accurate)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
Field trip alert

Sounds like he wants the reporters to take dangerous field trips into the uncivilized red states.

Well, I'm not sure they'd make it out alive. One of the funniest things I've ever red about the urban blues.

35 posted on 06/26/2005 1:20:51 PM PDT by Kay Syrah (always remember your towel)
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To: Pikamax

Put it this way. On Father's Day the Times ran:

-A huge article about the movement to ban gay marriage with a magazine front page photo of two just married lesbians kissing.

-and another big fluff piece in the Style section on metrosexuals and straights being seen as identical based on style.


It was so in your face it made me laugh as I just happened to be given a copy. I dropped my subscription in 2002.


36 posted on 06/26/2005 1:29:11 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: madprof98
I would love to see the New York Times severely reduced in public stature during his editorial tenure, so I pray the movement to broaden its appeal falls way, way short of the mark.

My feelings aren't as harsh as yours (maybe because I don't know the players as well as you do). Nevertheless, I think we all know how this movement to broaden their appeal is going to work out -- there is no chance whatsoever that it will succeed.

37 posted on 06/26/2005 1:32:52 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: Pikamax
"First and foremost we hire the best reporters, editors, photographers and artists in the business ..."

Right ... why is it the name Jason Blair comes to mind when I read this disingenuous NY Times BS?

38 posted on 06/26/2005 1:38:22 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Kay Syrah

That was great, thanks! I've met urbanites like these up here in the "wilds" of New England. Years ago, I was at a wild game supper put on by a church in a small Vermont town. The folks sitting next to me had driven up from Manhattan. When the church lady came 'round to explain what was on the menu, the New Yorkers asked her for the wine list!


39 posted on 06/26/2005 1:40:19 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: ncountylee
“A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk.”

I'd still rather view reality through a whole lot of pinholes than to depend on it being related to me by someone with a known agenda.

40 posted on 06/26/2005 1:40:46 PM PDT by Riley (STOP CASTING POROSITY!!)
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