NYT Public Editor: Liberal Bias 'Bleeds Through' Times

[William Joyce]

New York Times editor Jill Abramson rebuts Arthur Brisbane bias charge - POLITICO.com

In his final column for the Times, Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers "share a kind of political and cultural progressivism" that "virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times." Brisbane even argued that Times reporters approached some liberal issues, like gay marriage and the Occupy movement, "more like causes than news subjects."

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Yup__ what we knew. The higher-ups at NYT will still go with deny, deny, deny until they're the next News Weak.

 

[blastoff]

Anyone with a brain already knew the old gray lady is a liberal rag.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

The interesting thing is that he spent 14 paragraphs of pretty light hearted stuff before bothering to lower the hammer. It's as if he's weary of betraying the liberal shithead code.

I also noted two years ago that I had taken up the public editor duties believing “there is no conspiracy” and that The Times’s output was too vast and complex to be dictated by any Wizard of Oz-like individual or cabal. I still believe that, but also see that the hive on Eighth Avenue is powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds — a phenomenon, I believe, that is more easily recognized from without than from within.

When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so. Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.

As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/o...-the-times-transforms.html?_r=4&smid=tw-share