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Fired from The New York Times over Trump
I was told there was concern, even at the publishers level, about one small edit I proposed to a story<snip>
"When I saw that infamous Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism headline in The New York Times, I was not surprised in the least. And when I learned that it had set off subscription cancellations among outraged readers, I thought: Finally! What took so long?
Having spent eight years taking deep daily dives into New York Times stories as a copy editor, I can with confidence impart this bit of news fit to print: The Gray Lady has, ever since Trumps election, been playing an insidious double game to ensure its survival.
Before Donald Trump began calling it the failing New York Times, the paper looked as if it was indeed foundering. In the aftermath of Trumps shock electoral victory, however, The Times rapidly turned its fortunes around, even becoming the legacy medias most notable success story in the online age.
How did this happen? Digital subscriptions were key, and many of them came from liberals, most probably despairing Hillary Clinton voters who saw themselves as essentially crowdsourcing the revenue to get the failing Times out of trouble and thereby 1) defy their candidates vanquisher and 2) assure themselves of a prominent light in the darkness about to descend on the nation under Trump.
But the papers anti-Trump rescuers missed a trick.
While The Times did try to reinforce its typical new subscribers liberal illusions about the paper (by, say, giving a new prominence to its most liberal opinion columnists, regularly placing them at the top of the home page,) in its actual news coverage or corporate actions it is not especially liberal, compassionate or even just fair. Nor has The Times been particularly harsh on Trump, who is, after all, a colorful hometown character for the papers owners and managers, one of the New York medias most enduring sparring partners and playmates, and now the first U.S. president from New York since Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/23/fired-from-the-new-york-times-over-trump/
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Fired from The New York Times over Trump (Original Post)
Scurrilous
Nov 2019
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Seldom agree with salon, but they certainly got that one right. I'm done with the nyt
Thekaspervote
Nov 2019
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littlemissmartypants
(22,639 posts)1. Good read. Thanks. nt
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)2. Seldom agree with salon, but they certainly got that one right. I'm done with the nyt
Shitty two siderism... May work for some, not me
"..colorful hometown character.. " trump is a ******* fascist treasonous sociopathic Liar. Nothing "colorful" about him.
Thank you, Scurrilous!
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)4. K&R Thanks for posting.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)5. Yep. This is pretty blatant. I live in NY, but my paper is the Washington Post.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)6. I now it had zero effect...
...but I canceled my digital subscription to the NY Times. Fuck Dean Bacquet and fuck the NY Times' "balanced" reporting.
I get better news coverage and opinions from Democratic Underground.
crickets
(25,968 posts)7. Goes to show Dean Baquet has no business being editor of any kind. K&R