Posted on 08/15/2019 9:03:28 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said recently that, after the Mueller report, the paper has to shift the focus of its coverage from the Trump-Russia affair to the president's alleged racism.
"We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well," Baquet said. "Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story."
Baquet made the remarks at an employee town hall Monday. A recording was leaked to Slate, which published a transcript Thursday.
The day Bob Mueller walked off that witness stand, two things happened," Baquet continued. "Our readers who want Donald Trump to go away suddenly thought, 'Holy shit, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.' And Donald Trump got a little emboldened politically, I think. Because, you know, for obvious reasons. And I think that the story changed. A lot of the stuff we're talking about started to emerge like six or seven weeks ago. We're a little tiny bit flat-footed
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Orwell had a vision of future Democrats. And others in the deep state.
When all else fails for the Democrats they pull out their much used, frayed and worn out race cards. It’s a sure sign of their total desperation!
To be fair there are a number of us ex-Democrats who escaped the sheep farm before the brainwashing took full effect.
ROFL...Perfect!!!
Baquet: You know, it’s interesting, the argument you just made, to go back to the use of the word racist. I didn’t agree with all of this from Keith Woods, who I know from New Orleans and who’s the ombudsman for NPR. He wrote a piece about why he wouldn’t have used the word racist, and his argument, which is pretty provocative, boils down to this: Pretty much everything is racist. His view is that a huge percentage of American conversation is racist, so why isolate this one comment from Donald Trump? His argument is that he could cite things that people say in their everyday lives that we don’t characterize that way, which is always interesting. You know, I don’t know how to answer that, other than I do think that that race has always played a huge part in the American story.
And I do think that race and understanding of race should be a part of how we cover the American story. Sometimes news organizations sort of forget that in the moment. But of course it should be. I mean, one reason we all signed off on the 1619 Project and made it so ambitious and expansive was to teach our readers to think a little bit more like that. Race in the next year—and I think this is, to be frank, what I would hope you come away from this discussion with—race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story. And I mean, race in terms of not only African Americans and their relationship with Donald Trump, but Latinos and immigration. And I think that one of the things I would love to come out of this with is for people to feel very comfortable coming to me and saying, here’s how I would like you to consider telling that story. Because the reason you have a diverse newsroom, to be frank, is so that you can have people pull together to try to tell that story. I think that’s the closest answer I can come.
And “white nationalism” is the new term for racism.
Sulzberger needs to examine the Times' digital subscriptions - I'm guessing a lot are as fake as Jussie Smollett's "attack". (yes, democrat war rooms can buy cheap subscriptions to buy influence. Sulzberger outed twitter - now he needs to take a look closer to home.
Mr. Baquet is still behind. Racism, the most over used word in American english, is now out, replaced by White Nationalism. Try to stay up Dean.
I figured this was the Bee.
Are you actually saying this story is fake?
I am saying the NYT puts out fake news.
"After racism, what will be schtick C?"
C. "Common-sense gun control"
Absolutely right.
NYT is all out to defeat President Trump by smearing and slandering him in the worst and most vile racist ways.
NYT has a defeat Trump Campaign of its very own
They might as well just go from broadsheet to tabloid size and make it official.
DANG!
Paper that sold to a beaner for $1...
How about: “Trump Stomped Us?”
Caucasian Democrats are selling the constitutional rights of other American (Black, White, Brown & Yellow) for whatever money and privileges the members of the Black Caucus and Al Sharpton types demand.
It’s called factoring, aka as finder’s fees in the Progressive business world
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