In a meeting with his staff, Dean Baquet came right out and said that the designed and contrived attacks on Trump based on Russian collusion did not do the job.
As a result, he was changing the structure of the NYT to attack Trump on a different front.
He was both admitting that the previous Propaganda Campaign did NOT work and hoping the the new Propaganda Campaign would work.
This rag is a propaganda, political action fish wrap. No more. No less.
From his comments:
Inside the New York Times town hall.
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Dean Baquet: If we’re really going to be a transparent newsroom that debates these issues among ourselves and not on Twitter, I figured I should talk to the whole newsroom, and hear from the whole newsroom.
We had a couple of significant missteps, and I know you’re concerned about them, and I am, too.
But there’s something larger at play here.
This is a really hard story, newsrooms haven’t confronted one like this since the 1960s.
It got trickier after [inaudible] … went from being a story about whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia and obstruction of justice to being a more head-on story about the president’s character.
We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well.
Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.
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