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New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism
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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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To: Bigtigermike

Propaganda “shift”

I prefer a term used many years ago to describe the left and it fits perfectly for all of them.

Fakers.


81 posted on 08/17/2019 8:24:48 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: Equine1952

WELL SAID. = There’s a perfectly descriptive word for the DIMocRAT candidates in 2020: LOSERS.

Yours, TMN78247


82 posted on 08/19/2019 3:36:05 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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