Former New York Times Editor Slams Trump Coverage as Biased
By Zachary Stieber
January 2, 2019 Updated: January 2, 2019
A former New York Times executive editor said that the paper is “unmistakably anti-[President Donald] Trump.”
Jill Abramson served as the outlet’s executive editor from 2011 to 2014.
She wrote in a soon-to-be-published book, “Merchants of Truth,” that the New York Times has become Trump’s “opposition party.”
“Though [current executive editor Dean] Baquet said publicly he didn’t want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump,” Abramson wrote, adding that she believes the same is true of the Washington Post, according to Fox News, which obtained the book prior to publication.
“Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis.”
The open bias has led to more distrust of the media, Abramson noted, and the younger staffers at the Times have pushed for open opposition against Trump.
“The more anti-Trump the Times was perceived to be, the more it was mistrusted for being biased. [Adolph] Ochs’s vow to cover the news without fear or favor sounded like an impossible promise in such a polarized environment,” she said.
Adolph Och was a legendary 20th century publisher.
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