Posted on 08/12/2019 6:39:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on Monday admitted during a newsroom meeting that an original headline focused on President Trump's response to mass shootings last week was a "f---ing mess," according to The Daily Beast.
Baquet made the comment during a meeting with newsroom staff that addressed an array of issues, including how the newspaper has covered Trump and race. But the meeting mainly focused on a print headline — "Trump Urges Unity Against Racism" — describing Trump's response to a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that left 22 people dead earlier this month, The Daily Beast noted.
The alleged suspect is believed to have shared a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto that described Hispanic immigrants entering the U.S. as an "invasion" before the attack. Democrats were quick to point out that the manifesto echoes Trump's rhetoric about immigrants.
The initial headline prompted outrage from a range of Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates after it was revealed. It was later changed to "Assailing hate but not guns."
“He’s sick. He feels terrible,” Baquet reportedly said of the person who wrote the initial headline, which he called a "f---ing mess" while urging staffers not to overreact to scrutiny the publication receives on social media.
He added that the newspaper couldn't allow itself to be edited by outrage from Twitter users, The Daily Beast reported.
The Times's publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, also addressed staff during the meeting, at one point citing a statistic that only a small percentage of Twitter users tweeting about the newspaper's stories were clicking on them.
In prepared remarks following the attack in El Paso, Trump called on the nation to condemn "bigotry, hatred and white supremacy." He also blamed the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, on “gruesome and grisly video games," saying that it makes it easy for troubled youth to find a culture of violence.
Several Democrats took issue with the way The Times initially characterized Trump's response.
"Lives literally depend on you doing better, NYT," 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Twitter. "Please do.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) argued that the headline displayed "how white supremacy is aided by — and often relies upon — the cowardice of mainstream institutions."
Meanwhile, Republicans, including Trump, asserted that The Times gave in to Democrats' demands by altering the headline.
“’Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism,’ was the correct description in the first headline by the Failing New York Times, but it was quickly changed to, ‘Assailing Hate But Not Guns,’ after the Radical Left Democrats went absolutely CRAZY!” the president tweeted last week.
Baquet said to The Daily Beast in a text message that he hoped the meeting "went well."
“I just want a newsroom where people feel they can talk about coverage and complain to me," he said.
"Dean regularly hosts open forums where people can raise issues and that is what this was," a spokesperson for The Times said in a statement to The Hill.
The liberal lynch mob is now dictating to the NYT how they should report news.
This is an extraordinary turn of events.
The NYT is a major player in the “death to America” media.
Left wing mob forces the Old gray whore to change headlines.
It’s too late. They basically showed that liberals on social media have veto power over their headlines when they’re not agenda-pushing enough for their liking.
The NYT does not report news. it’s just a tool liberals use to spread agitprop.
Short leashe pulls hard.
Damn...just hard to be the DNC’s bitches ain’t it?
The mediaVOMITS are America’s #1 enemy and because of them 22 innocent people are dead..those tables should have been flipped that Saturday!!! They have blood on their hands!!
George Orwell’s “1984” is not just a novel...it’s a play book!
They left out the part where he said his problem with "immigrants" was that he feared the ecological damage they would do.
He was an eco-fascist. Liberals are eco-wackos not Trump.
“The liberal lynch mob is now dictating to the NYT how they should report news.
This is an extraordinary turn of events.”
Like, this is something new?
Welcome to journalism in the 21st Century. Journalists drafted right out of grammar school.
Liberals driving the news is nothing new.
Yes this is new.
They forced the NYT to change a headline.
....delicious... thank God I’ll be dead before AOC is a NY Senator...I hope....
NYT needs to change their name to LBA “Liberal Blog appeasers”
The NYT quoted Donald Trump fairly in one instance....and regrets it deeply and is apologizing for doing so to the hate-mob.
“’Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism,’ was the correct description in the first headline by the Failing New York Times, but it was quickly changed to, ‘Assailing Hate But Not Guns,’ after the Radical Left Democrats went absolutely CRAZY!” the president tweeted last week.
The Gray Whore, Newspaper of Wretched, the bird cage liner for birds who can't read, pretends to almost apologize for its major partisan media shilling ****-up, which shows that President Trump won another one.
Ummm. . .near as I can see the NYT and cohorts are responsible for inciting hysteria over President Trump. He’s neither racist nor inciting violence - THEY ARE!!!
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