New York Times publisher vows to 'rededicate' paper to reporting honestly

[Cow Poke]

New York Times publisher vows to 'rededicate' paper to reporting honestly

[RumTumTugger]

New York Times publisher vows to 'rededicate' paper to reporting honestly

I'll believe it when I see it they didn't the last time they said they would.

[rogue06]

Newspapers admitting to bias in election coverage?

First it was The Daily Commercial, which since 1875 has been a central Florida newspaper serving Lake and Sumter counties that admitted (they called it a "mea culpa") that their news coverage of the 2016 presidential race, as well as the rest of the MSM's, had been biased against Trump: http://www.dailycommercial.com/news/...ction-and-bias

But now, the New York Times has published its own mea culpa in the form of a letter from its publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. and executive editor Dean Baquet saying that the paper was going to try to start reporting the news honestly again after the election.

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But reading the letter it sounded more like excuse making than any sort of admission that they did a poor job reporting on the election:

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[robrecht]

I don't know why anyone would expect publishers to be any less biased than anyone else. I expect them to be more biased.

[rogue06]

I don't know why anyone would expect publishers to be any less biased than anyone else. I expect them to be more biased.

It isn't about the personal bias of publishers but bias in the reporting.

[robrecht]

It isn't about the personal bias of publishers but bias in the reporting.

Why assume that there would be a difference. Publishers employ reporters.

[rogue06]

Why assume that there would be a difference. Publishers employ reporters.

They pretend that they're just reporting the news -- the facts. They're supposed to leave opinions to the editorials (that is the purpose of that section).

But you seem to be saying that we should not expect the New York Times to keep its word when it says they will strive to be more honest in their reporting. I tend to agree

[robrecht]

They pretend that they're just reporting the news -- the facts. They're supposed to leave opinions to the editorials (that is the purpose of that section)

If you say 'pretend' then you are already conceding my point.

[rogue06]

If you say 'pretend' then you are already conceding my point.

Oh I wholly agree that they don't report the news fairly or accurately but instead blatantly insert their opinion and biases into it.

[robrecht]

... But you seem to be saying that we should not expect the New York Times to keep its word when it says they will strive to be more honest in their reporting. I tend to agree

I expect them to strive for this but I don't expect them to succeed at this any more than I expect Fox News to succeed.

[seanD]

I expect them to strive for this but I don't expect them to succeed at this any more than I expect Fox News to succeed.

It's not so much that they're unbiased or not but that they maintain the belief they're unbiased by their audience. The problem is that their credibly was already shot before this, especially CNN, the biggest culprit in all this. This just underscored what most people already knew, which is what undoubtedly made this public confessional necessary. Too little, too late I believe.

[robrecht]

Oh I wholly agree that they don't report the news fairly or accurately but instead blatantly insert their opinion and biases into it.

Do you believe that Fox News or Breitbart is any different?

[Cow Poke]

Do you believe that Fox News or Breitbart is any different?

Personally, I try to avoid Breitbart as a source unless I see the same event or story covered elsewhere. I know that some of the liberals here discount a story - whether true or not - simply because Breitbart presented it.

As for Fox News - I don't watch it that much, but if it didn't exist, the liberal media would be getting away with all kinds of nonsense. Many of the stories carried in the liberal media are totally ignored until they get enough coverage on Fox News.

Something else that I have seen from time to time on Fox News is their people speaking openly of Christianity, and professing Christ, and praying, and stuff like that. So, yeah, in that sense, they're way different.

I think the reason for the success of Fox News is because people didn't believe they were getting the truth from the liberal media, and the bias was just outrageous.

[rogue06]

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[Sparko]

New York Times publisher vows to 'rededicate' paper to reporting honestly

Isnt the NYT lao tzu's go to rag? He kept citing it all of last summer. Wonder what he thinks now? Where is he anyway?