Posted on 07/09/2018 2:56:01 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet conceded on Monday his newspaper "should have coordinated better and done fewer" stories on Alan Dershowitz, after the newspaper was criticized over its coverage of the famed attorney's summer vacation.
The Times ran four stories on Dershowitz over the past week that came from four different news desks and included six bylines and two additional writing credits, according to The Daily Beast.
"We are trying to increase our coverage of cranky white guys," Baquet joked in a text message to a reporter with the Daily Beast. "Seriously, it's a big place and different desks made their own plans. We should have coordinated better and done fewer.”
Dershowitz, who has frequently spoken out against the special counsel investigation into President Trump and Russian election meddling, seemed to revel in the attention as he prepares for the release of his new book, "The Case Against Impeaching Trump," which hits bookstores on Monday.
“Four stories!” Dershowitz said in a phone interview with the Daily Beast. “You’d think it would be on ‘Page Six.’ You wouldn’t think it would be on the front page of the New York Times!”
Among the stories on Dershowitz the Times ran with were "A Frosty Summer for Dershowitz on Liberal Martha’s Vineyard;" "Yet Another Book Takes on Impeachment: This Time, the Case Against;" and “The Dersh," which consisted of a long interview with the 79-year-old retired Harvard Law professor, who goes by that nickname.
Dershowitz is not an exclusive contributor to any broadcast or cable news network, but has often appeared in recent months on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC to make his case for Trump, arguing the special counsel investigation should have never began in the first place because no specific crime could be defined, among other reasons.
"Hypothetically, if Hillary Clinton had been elected, which I was hoping... and she were being subject to an impeachment investigation, I'd be making the same arguments and I'd be the 'hero of the Vineyard,' the very same arguments I've been making, people would be applauding me and cheering me and loving me," he recently told MSNBC's Kasie Hunt.
Dershowitz said he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and is only defending Trump based on legal arguments.
The New York Times admits they do hit pieces and they need better coordination.
Don’t even bother to sign up for an open mike night with that kind of material, dude.
“We are trying to increase our coverage of cranky white guys,”
They just can’t resist. The Old Gray Dinosaur needs to just die.
Slimes ain’t covering cranky black guys, cranky Hispanic guys, or cranky Asian guys.
Therefore, it’s racial discrimination, pure and simple.
Dat be racis’ yo
Agenda news is fake news
Dershowitz has repeatedly failed to toe the party line, and must be silenced.
It was coordinated after they got their marching order from Maxine Waters to harass Trump defenders (even if it’s liberals just trying to be objective)
They just don’t get it, do they? They publish something balanced occasionally and then remember they are the Fake News leader of print! Bet some editor[s] are relegated to some small desks in the basement.
...of the Slimes' Flushing office.
(Yes, I'm recycling cop-show jokes.)
I guess Dershowitz stopped being Jewish when he started sounding conservative :)
He was told that he was too old, not old enough, too Jewish, not Jewish enough, etc., for roles that he could have fit into quite easily.
I think he ran afoul of the cabal when he realized what a bunch of corrupt idiots were supporting Bill Clinton.
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