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New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism
Quote: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.

In the beginning of the Trump administration, the Times geared up to cover the Russia affair, Baquet explained. "Chapter 1 of the story of Donald Trump, not only for our newsroom but, frankly, for our readers, was: Did Donald Trump have untoward relationships with the Russians, and was there obstruction of justice? That was a really hard story, by the way, let's not forget that. We set ourselves up to cover that story. I'm going to say it. We won two Pulitzer Prizes covering that story. And I think we covered that story better than anybody else."

But then came the Mueller report, with special counsel Robert Mueller failing to establish that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to fix the 2016 election. "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 ****, 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. I mean, that's what happens when a story looks a certain way for two years. Right?"

Baquet used the gentlest terms possible — "the story changed" — but the fact is, the conspiracy-coordination allegation the Times had devoted itself to pursuing turned out to be false. Beyond that, Democrats on Capitol Hill struggled to press an obstruction case against the president. The Trump-Russia hole came up dry.

Now, Baquet continued, "I think that we've got to change." The Times must "write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions."

"I mean, the vision for coverage for the next two years is what I talked about earlier: How do we cover a guy who makes these kinds of remarks?" Baquet said. "How do we cover the world's reaction to him? How do we do that while continuing to cover his policies? How do we cover America, that's become so divided by Donald Trump?"

The town hall was spurred by angry reaction, both inside and outside the Times, to a headline that many on the Left faulted for being insufficiently anti-Trump. After the El Paso shootings, when the president denounced white supremacy, the Times published a page-one story with the heading, "Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism."

"I think one of the reasons people have such a problem with a headline like this ... is because they care so much," one staffer said to Baquet. "And they depend on the New York Times. They are depending on us to keep kicking down the doors and getting through, because they need that right now. It's a very scary time."

Baquet vowed a transition to a new "vision" for the paper for the next two years. "How do we grapple with all the stuff you all are talking about?" he said to the staffer. "How do we write about race in a thoughtful way, something we haven't done in a large way in a long time? That, to me, is the vision for coverage. You all are going to have to help us shape that vision. But I think that's what we're going to have to do for the rest of the next two years."

The headline controversy, it appears, was a preview of a new 2019-2020 New York Times. If Baquet follows through, the paper will spend the next two years, which just happens to be the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, building the Trump-is-a-racist narrative. (Baquet added, almost as an afterthought, that the Times will "continu[e] to cover his policies.")

The employee town hall was not intended to be public. But the Times is a news organization, and no one could be surprised that a recording of it leaked, possibly by Times employees who want to push Baquet in an even more anti-Trump direction. In any event, it's now public. And the results will play out for the next two years.

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Democrats hate America
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(08-17-2019 02:38 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Democrats hate America

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/16/the-m...ng-on-you/

Exactly. Must read article. After all, how often do you get to read an article from a living person named Thaddeus?

"Some time ago, I noted the irreconcilable difference between the Left and the rest of America: the majority of our fellow citizens believe America is an inherently good nation that continues its pursuit of a more perfect union; the Left believes America is an inherently evil nation that must be transformed fundamentally into an oppressive socialist state—at best.

For the Left to win this existential argument, it must distort and revile America’s history to destroy the truth of American Exceptionalism. If the past is evil, the present has no choice but to reject America’s history and its defenders; and to embrace the dishonest leftist ideology and the agenda of those who loathe America....

Now one understands why the Left rejects the Betsy Ross flag as a symbol of hate. Yet the hate is theirs, not ours. Ergo, why would anyone who rejects the hateful Left subsidize it with their hard-earned money, be it in subsidizing the Left’s brainwashing emporiums or subscribing to its propagandizing fanzines? As the esteemed Thomas Sowell instructs: “We are among the biggest fools in history if we keep on paying people to make us hate each other.”

The mountebank Left is banking on it."

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Why can't their focus be something like reporting the news, you know, since they are a Newspaper and all?
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(08-17-2019 09:27 PM)banker Wrote:  Why can't their focus be something like reporting the news, you know, since they are a Newspaper and all?

To the elite left, politics appears to be a form of substance abuse.

Growing up, "Peter M." was far and away the best athlete in my small community. It is conceivable that he was pro material (although we were too small a sports pond to fairly make that comparison), but he was a certain lock for a Division I scholarship in baseball -- or if he preferred probably could have done so in either football or basketball.

The problem was that Peter did not value his athletic gifts anywhere as much as he did hanging with the rest of us, and getting drunk whenever possible. A few of us would tell him to go home. He had practice or even a game the next day, and shouldn't be out boozing. But that's not what he wanted. Whatever in-the-future opportunities may have been available to him were less important than the immediate need to belong.

The New York Times, more than any other journalistic enterprise, seems to treat its leftist agenda as a similar all-controlling fix. It has willingly sacrificed its unquestioned status as the dominant news leader for the short-term high of being one of the cool kids.

I've kept up somewhat with Peter M. He's doing alright in life, and seems happy. If he has regrets in not taking his talents to the college level, he's never shared them with me.

It may be the same for the NYT. Being the most prominent TDS practitioner in America is certainly an achievement of some sort. And it is clearly easier than handling the responsibilities of being an actual news source.

The NYT, like many others in the mainstream media, has made a choice. So be it.
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Local school district here is getting blasted because they signed a contract with Papa Johns to be the pizza of choice when they have events. A group came out claimed that Papa Johns is racist and supports a white supremacist as President citing the founders use of the n word a couple years ago and his support of Trump. When confronted with the fact John isn’t in control or has power the group still says he made his money off minorities and Trump is racist. When asked why Trump is racist you got the same response we get here. “Dunno. He is. He hates Obama. He thinks black criminals are guilty.” Good times.
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The editor actually said, ""We built our newsroom to cover one story."


Wow.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini...-trump-too

"...But a project with the aim of reframing U.S. history has to be more than a bunch of articles and podcasts. A major goal of the 1619 Project is to take the reframing message to schools. The Times has joined an organization called the Pulitzer Center (which, it should be noted, is not the organization that hands out the Pulitzer Prize) to create a 1619 Project curriculum. "Here you will find reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into your classroom," the center says in a message to teachers....


So the New York Times has two big plans. One would be big enough: to focus on the universe of racism accusations that increasingly surround the president at a time when he just happens to be running for reelection. But the other is even bigger: to "reframe" American history in accordance with the values of New York Times editors. It's an extraordinarily ambitious undertaking for people in what used to be known more simply as the news business."
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PJ Simon
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"...Now the paper is little more than a left-wing propaganda sheet — and not a very good one, notwithstanding its seemingly unbreakable and unremitting influence on the mainstream media who still check the Times before they check themselves.

These days the paper almost feels run by idiots. Certainly banking on Trump-Russia collusion as their main story for two years is not a sign of intelligence. It was an obvious absurdity from the beginning, promulgated by lies, largely published, wittingly or unwittingly, by the NYT. They even received Pulitzers for their prevarications, to the shame of both parties, the Pulitzer committee and the Times....

Nothing. They are already on to Trump Is a Racist, blah-blah-blah. The transcript of their executive editor Dean Bacquet's recent staff meeting published/pirated by Slate reads like a struggle meeting from the Chinese Cultural Revolution with some particularly juvenile Red Guards (recent Columbia Journalism grads, no doubt) calling for ever more revisionist (i. e. racist Republican) blood.

It's hard to imagine an intelligent person not being nauseated by this drivel, but the conformity and resistance to personal change (almost outstripping their resistance to Trump) of today's liberal/progressive know no bounds...."


"...RCP has created a "just the facts" ambiance that everybody trusts. It's a site I go to every day because it tells me what both sides are thinking, something we should all want to know. I don't think we can find that anyplace else. The NYT should be envious. (Obviously, the comparison between a website and a newspaper is incomplete, but RCP at least starts from a place of relative even-handedness.)

Actually, back in the old days (2004), when Glenn Reynolds, Ed Driscoll and I and some others were putting together what became PJ Media (then Pajamas Media, as many know), it had been our intention that, despite our personal ideological predilections, PJM would be a site where both sides could reason together, impossible as that now seems. That went by the boards fairly quickly when the liberals demanded more money than the conservatives. (One of those libs — name redacted but you can guess! — was later involved with the promulgation of the Steele dossier.)...."
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Why the Fake News York Times is becoming the Fake History Times.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/20/gho...ican-left/

"...Everything that made America exceptional, every aspect of American life, all of it the legacy of slavery. The Times’ entire purpose here, by its own admission, is to “reframe the country’s history” by placing slavery “at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.” It should come as no surprise that, in this telling, we are an irredeemably wicked people, and always have been.

The 1619 Project Is Garbage History..."
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Another good article on the meeting: https://nypost.com/2019/08/24/bias-has-k...atal-shot/

"While reading the transcript of a New York Times staff meeting, a Lily Tomlin line came to mind: “No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up...."


By giving reporters and editors license to try to stop Donald Trump from becoming president, then letting them peddle the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, Baquet helped unleash the ­hatred that is tearing America apart. Never before has a single media institution played such a destructive role in the nation’s life.

But Baquet is not finished. The 75-minute meeting shows he is now determined to ­destroy the president by painting him as a racist....

This isn’t journalism. It’s political activism aligned with the talking points of Democrats. And to liken race relations today to those in the 1960s, as ­Baquet does, is beyond ignorant.

The Aug. 12 meeting was held after an uproar over a headline deemed too friendly to Trump. “Trump Urges Unity vs Racism” didn’t convey a sufficient dose of Trump hatred, so Baquet had it rewritten to criticize the president’s sober remarks after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Even that wasn’t enough to sate the monster he created, so Baquet assembled the newsroom to hear the grievances and explain his thinking.

Though none of those asking questions are identified, they are indistinguishable in wanting the paper to regularly call Trump a racist and a liar. These are supposedly straight news reporters and editors, yet are unrestrained in demanding that their partisan opinions dictate coverage....

Indeed, there is zero evidence in the transcript that anyone in the room objects. Even allowing that some might have doubts about an entire news organization speaking with one scripted voice, the silence shows nobody felt secure enough to say so. No safe spaces for dissenters there.

The failure of anyone to recognize that the approach violates the paper’s historic standards of fairness and the strict separation of news from opinion speaks volumes about how low the Times has sunk.

If there is a silver lining, it is that the public has been warned. Readers who want straight facts and fair play won’t find it in the Times. All they will get is a biased agenda and a guaranteed conclusion."
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(08-18-2019 05:33 AM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  
(08-17-2019 09:27 PM)banker Wrote:  Why can't their focus be something like reporting the news, you know, since they are a Newspaper and all?

To the elite left, politics appears to be a form of substance abuse.

Growing up, "Peter M." was far and away the best athlete in my small community. It is conceivable that he was pro material (although we were too small a sports pond to fairly make that comparison), but he was a certain lock for a Division I scholarship in baseball -- or if he preferred probably could have done so in either football or basketball.

The problem was that Peter did not value his athletic gifts anywhere as much as he did hanging with the rest of us, and getting drunk whenever possible. A few of us would tell him to go home. He had practice or even a game the next day, and shouldn't be out boozing. But that's not what he wanted. Whatever in-the-future opportunities may have been available to him were less important than the immediate need to belong.

The New York Times, more than any other journalistic enterprise, seems to treat its leftist agenda as a similar all-controlling fix. It has willingly sacrificed its unquestioned status as the dominant news leader for the short-term high of being one of the cool kids.

I've kept up somewhat with Peter M. He's doing alright in life, and seems happy. If he has regrets in not taking his talents to the college level, he's never shared them with me.

It may be the same for the NYT. Being the most prominent TDS practitioner in America is certainly an achievement of some sort. And it is clearly easier than handling the responsibilities of being an actual news source.

The NYT, like many others in the mainstream media, has made a choice. So be it.

Excellent analogy.
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/a...ivism.html

Even NY Mag takes on Fake News Times racist project.

"...I don’t believe most African-Americans believe this, outside the elites. They’re much less doctrinaire than elite white leftists on a whole range of subjects. I don’t buy it either — alongside, I suspect, most immigrants, including most immigrants of color. Who would ever want to immigrate to such a vile and oppressive place? But it is extremely telling that this is not merely aired in the paper of record (as it should be), but that it is aggressively presented as objective reality. That’s propaganda, directed, as we now know, from the very top — and now being marched through the entire educational system to achieve a specific end. To present a truth as the truth is, in fact, a deception. And it is hard to trust a paper engaged in trying to deceive its readers in order for its radical reporters and weak editors to transform the world...."
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WaPo and NYTimes have taken their 1st amendment rights to the highest degree and smacks of treason. It's ironic that the Commies want to destroy Fox News because they say it's fake but are okay with their fantastic lies.
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"But then came the Mueller report, with special counsel Robert Mueller "failing" to establish that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to fix the 2016 election."

The NYTimes is like my kids who were adamant and kept repeating "did" and every one else (the other kid) is going "did not". The way they write that is that Mueller was not ABLE to out Trump when in reality he couldn't because there was nothing there. It was all fake and treasonous and was just invented as a means to a coup.
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