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January 02, 2019
Former NYT Editor Jill Abramson Rips Former Paper as Biased
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A former executive editor of the New York Times says the paper's news pages, the home of its straight-news coverage, have become "unmistakably anti-Trump."
Jill Abramson, the veteran journalist who led the newspaper from 2011 to 2014, says the Times has a financial incentive to bash the president and that the imbalance is helping to erode its credibility.
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"Though Baquet said publicly he didn't want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump," Abramson writes, adding that she believes the same is true of the Washington Post. "Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis."
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Abramson describes a generational split at the Times, with younger staffers, many of them in digital jobs, favoring an unrestrained assault on the presidency. "The more 'woke' staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump's presidency obviated the old standards," she writes.
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"Given its mostly liberal audience, there was an implicit financial reward for the Times in running lots of Trump stories, almost all of them negative: they drove big traffic numbers and, despite the blip of cancellations after the election, inflated subscription orders to levels no one anticipated."
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