The evidence is clear that the New York Times has a liberally biased news site. This is not just for their op/ed pages. In fact, their ex-public editor even admitted it to them in 2004. And in 2018, executive editor Dean Baquet stated that he “would be lying if I did not say that a newsroom that is largely built in Manhattan does not have liberal leanings in the lifestyles and attitudes of its employees.”
The documentation of left-wing views is vital in order to hold news media organizations accountable.
The latest example comes courtesy of independent journalist Bari Weiss, who not so long ago was the opinion page editor for the Times before she resigned in disgust over what she described at the time as “constant bullying by colleagues” over her “forays into [centrist] Wrongthink,” a lack of support shown by the higher-ups when she was attacked on the NYT’s Slack channels, and how “stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences” – audiences Weiss said consist of Twitter’s narrow-minded leftist woke mobs.
Weiss, in a podcast that was posted Thursday, described to Senator Tim Scott (R.S.C.), a 2020 incident where she recalls a senior colleague suggesting that a junior fellow run an op/ed Scott submitted on the law reform police bill. Approval was given by Chuck Schumer, Democratic-N.Y. Minority Leader. Prior to that, the senior colleague questioned the junior colleague on whether or not they believed Republicans “really cared about minority rights”:
Weiss, during the interview, recalled that senior Times editors had been discussing Scott’s Op-Ed in connection to the April 2020 Minneapolis police-involved murder of George Floyd.
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“Well, here’s what happened,” Weiss told Scott. “And this is the part I’m not sure if you know. There was a discussion about the piece and whether or not we should run it.”
Weiss continued: “And one colleague, a more senior colleague said to a more junior colleague who was pushing for the piece, ‘Do you think the Republicans really care about minority rights?’”
“Wow,” Scott said.
“And the more junior colleagues said, ‘I think Tim Scott cares about minority rights’,” Weiss said.
“And then, and here’s the pretty shocking part. The more senior colleague said, ‘Let’s check with Sen. Schumer before we run it’,” Weiss said.
Elle also stated that Schumer was not able to contact her younger colleague due to ethical concerns.
She didn’t say what the basis was for the op/ed ultimately not being published, but it’s safe to guess that the junior colleague not running it by Schumer – and the Times’ woke newsroom’s propensity to erupt in meltdowns whenever a Republican politician (like Tom Cotton, for example) is given space in their paper – were the likely reasons it never ran.
Though that is one of the more eye-opening instances of blatant bias at the so-called “newspaper of record,” one that stands out to me even more is how the paper defended its biased and very belated “reporting” on Tara Reade’s March 2020 allegation of rape against then-Democratic presidential candidate and presumptive nominee Joe Biden.
Dean Baquet suggested to Ben Smith, Times media columnist, that they had made a controversial edit in a section of their article where they discussed other allegations against Biden because it made Biden’s campaign uncomfortable. Bold emphasis added
[Smith:] “I want to ask about some edits that were made after publication, the deletion of the second half of the sentence: ‘The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.’ Why did you do that?”
[Baquet:] “Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, Campaign thought the sentence was awkward. It made it seem like he could have been accused in another instance of sexual misconduct. And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.“
Joe Biden Had been accused of other instances of sexual misconduct by that point, but the fact that the Times appeared to tone down their article after the Biden’s campaign complained about it pretty much says it all.
Flashback: WaPo’s Glenn Kessler Gets the Smackdown He Deserves After ‘Whitesplaining’ Tim Scott’s Family History
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