NY Times fires Washington Bureau Chief over inaccurate criticisms of Hillary Clinton

[kpete]

After months of negative stories about 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton which were almost bizarrely inaccurate and had to be repeatedly retracted, the New York Times has finally taken definitive action within its organizational structure to put a stop to the strange editorial agenda. Carolyn Ryan is now officially out as Washington Bureau Chief, and while the newspaper isn’t referring to it as a firing, the move was made after less than two years on the job.

The NY Times had been pushing various strange and false storylines regarding Hillary Clinton and her campaign. An article depicting doom and gloom for Clinton based on her standard-issue use of private email as Secretary of State was deemed so factually inaccurate that even after a comprehensive retraction was published, so much additional false information was found within the story that an unprecedented second retraction had to be issued. The article was deemed to be such a work of fiction that even the Times’ own Public Editor criticized the hatchet job.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/ny-times-fires-washington-bureau-chief-over-inaccurate-criticisms-of-hillary-clinton/22235/

[rock]

1. I guess, like most people,

She couldn't find legitimate criticism of Hillary.

[oasis]

2. Oops, looks like the local AntiHills will have to get their hit pieces

exclusively from right wing sources.

[SidDithers]

3. DU rec...

'bout time.

Sid

[Warren DeMontague]

15. You know, Sid, when you say "DU rec", it's a little redundant.

I mean, obviously it's on DU, right?

[leftofcool]

4. Finally!

[samsingh]

5. the loser can get a job at fox.

[Rilgin]

6. Hate to Throw Some Water on your Fire

This is an article from a Site that seems to generally favor Hillary and not from the NY Times. The conclusion that it relates to a single email story is a conclusion made in this article. It is not a statement released by the Times which the OP article specifically mentions does not call it a firing. It also notes that she is still working for the Times. The OP article does not even claim a source from the Times who confirms that the reshuffle or firing was related to HRC articles. It just wants to make that argument and declare it fact.

It is true that the the times retracted an article about HRC email but that might be a symptom of why they replaced her rather than the cause. The OP article by drawing conclusions without NY Times confirmation is itself misleading.

Even within this single post there is advocacy rather than reporting. Please note that it says "standard-issue use of private email". Please correct me if I am wrong but the State Department has Thousands of employees and One was using private email. That does not seem like even an arguable case of standard use. The standard use was to use the Government Email System. Hillary herself is not arguing that it was the standard use. She is arguing that she was allowed to set up a private server and use it for both her personal and government use. She does not argue it was standard. That is a very different claim.

[Skwmom]

8. False propoganda spread by the Clinton machine as if it was fact. Same old same old... n/t

[FlatBaroque]

11. This is the Clintonized version.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. They keep it up, I may have to start calling it

the Hillaraily Clintbin.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. "dailynewsbin"

lol

[Capt. Obvious]

10. I guess blogspot was too slow loading

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The change, which was announced by executive editor Dean Baquet, reflects the longstanding editorial arrangement that existed in everything but name, several Times sources said. Bumiller had served as the de facto bureau chief while Ryan, who also serves as political editor, had focused on the paper's 2016 coverage.

Bumiller took control of the day-to-day business at the bureau in January, when Ryan announced she was going to focus her attention on building out the Times’ political desks, though Ryan retained the title of bureau chief. Ryan leaves the bureau chief role less than two years after replacing David Leonhardt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning economic columnist who now heads the Times' 'Upshot' column.

The new assignments will match that division of labor: Ryan "will now focus all of her attention on the campaign," Baquet wrote in his memo. "Her appointment as a senior editor for politics is a testament to the remarkable job she has done running coverage as the campaign evolved into the story of more than 20 candidates, and billions of dollars."

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Politico

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Rather different interpretation on the Times' staff shakeup, there

than the "dailynewsbin" one.

But, then, "dailynewsbin" was the site that told us "State Department confirms Hillary email violated no laws" (technically, people violate laws, emails being inanimate objects... but I digress) while linking to a State Dept. statement which most decidedly did NOT use the word "laws", anywhere.

They seem to have a habit of editorializing their "news" coverage, and playing a bit fast and loose with the facts.

[Bill USA]

12. AMAZING! THAT WON'T GO OVER WELL WITH THE GOP!! WHAT'S NYT DOING!?!