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Did Dean Baquet of the New York Times effectively kill the Journalism industry in America?

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OPINION
Goodwin: The New York Times’ long descent from credibility

By*Michael Goodwin
November 30, 2019*|*11:23pm

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Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times. Getty

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This is part two of excerpts from*Michael Goodwin’s Pulliam Lecture*at Hillsdale College.

The separation of news from opinion was an ingrained part of the culture at The New York Times when I started there in the 1970s.

As a young reporter, I knew the rule without understanding its significance. I only knew I was not permitted to express my opinions in my stories.

Those were the days when copy was edited by hand and if you veered into editorializing, editors simply crossed out the offending words. You learned of your mistake when you read the paper the next day and realized your opinion was on the cutting-room floor.

This was a painful way to learn, but learn we did.

The top editor then was the late Abe Rosenthal. He said he knew reporters tended to lean left politically, so he steered the editing process to the right. That way, he said, the paper would end up in the *middle.

He often declared that his epitaph would be, “he kept the paper straight.”

I was surprised when his widow informed me that those words *appear on the footstone of his grave. She sent me a photograph to prove it.

Now that is commitment!

Another key standard involved sources, which are a flashpoint these days. The Times “Manual on Style and Usage,” which has set the paper’s rules for more than a century, says the best source for readers is one who can be identified by name, but also describes when anonymous sources can be used.

The decision must be justified by a reporter and editor who agree that “not only is there no other way to obtain the information, but also that the information is both factual and important.”

In effect, reporters and editors are required to vouch for the *sources’ claims.

To add another layer of fairness, an anonymous source had to be identified as much as possible. The manual says, “United States diplomat is better than Western diplomat, which is better than diplomat. And better still is a United States diplomat who took part in the meeting.”

Again, the aim was to give the reader sufficient information to make a judgment about the source’s credibility.
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More at link.

Goodwin: The New York Times' long descent from credibility

This is part two of excerpts from*Michael Goodwin’s Pulliam Lecture*at Hillsdale College.

Part One is at the link below.

Goodwin: Remembering when The New York Times had higher standards/
 
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Oy Vey.

Michael Goodwin is a Fox News contributor and a journalist for the right-wing New York Post, another Rupert Murdoch rag that specializes in sensationalism.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Oy Vey.

Michael Goodwin is a Fox News contributor and a journalist for the right-wing New York Post, another Rupert Murdoch rag that specializes in sensationalism.
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The NY Post ran disinformation for Jeffrey Epstein's coconspirator. Don't lump them in with Fox News.
 
babalu said:
OPINION
Goodwin: The New York Times’ long descent from credibility

By*Michael Goodwin
November 30, 2019*|*11:23pm

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Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times. Getty



This is part two of excerpts from*Michael Goodwin’s Pulliam Lecture*at Hillsdale College.



More at link.

Goodwin: The New York Times' long descent from credibility

This is part two of excerpts from*Michael Goodwin’s Pulliam Lecture*at Hillsdale College.

Part One is at the link below.

Goodwin: Remembering when The New York Times had higher standards/
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The NYT has never had any standards. They are a creation of a small tribe of people who were anti American 100 years ago, and are anti American today. NYT survives thanks to their relationship with the Pentagon, as cheerleaders for the military industrial complex.
 
truthatallcost said:
The NYT has never had any standards. They are a creation of a small tribe of people who were anti American 100 years ago, and are anti American today. NYT survives thanks to their relationship with the Pentagon, as cheerleaders for the military industrial complex.
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"Small tribe of people", very nice. Just say they have been owned and controlled by Joos since 1896. I had to look that up. Nice Balance Sheet, $2.2 Billion with almost 50% of it equity. $1.75 Billion in sales. Your comments and anti-Semitism is enough for me to renew my subscription.
 
Hari Seldon said:
"Small tribe of people", very nice. Just say they have been owned and controlled by Joos since 1896. I had to look that up. Nice Balance Sheet, $2.2 Billion with almost 50% of it equity. $1.75 Billion in sales. Your comments and anti-Semitism is enough for me to renew my subscription.
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I didn't realize you were a subscriber Hari. Which columnist do you enjoy reading at NYT, Bretbug Stevens? :lamo
 
Oh, yes!

I have read in a liberal magazine (either the New York or London Review of Books. I forget which.) that Mr. Baquet told staffers that the New York Times will now have the following "frame": American history must be interpreted as a consequence of slavery.

Reporters, then, must fit their stories into that "frame" (i.e., that preconceived policy).

The article says that the Times 's readers especially love the fact that EVERY day the front page of that alleged "news"paper features at least four anti-Trump articles.



P.S. Whenever I receive a subscription offer from that entity, I have the pleasure of immediately throwing it in the wastebasket.
 
NYT's long descent from credibility for me began with Judith Miller and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The descent has continued to the bottom. It is a propaganda rag, nothing more.
 
truthatallcost said:
The NYT has never had any standards. They are a creation of a small tribe of people who were anti American 100 years ago, and are anti American today. NYT survives thanks to their relationship with the Pentagon, as cheerleaders for the military industrial complex.
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Concur.
 
TheParser said:
P.S. Whenever I receive a subscription offer from that entity, I have the pleasure of immediately throwing it in the wastebasket.
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Not surprising. Something by Franklin Graham or Jerry Falwell Jr. is probably more to your liking.
 
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