New York Times eliminates its public editor

[TomCADem]

Source: Politico

The New York Times’ public editor will leave her role on Friday as the newspaper cuts the position entirely.

Liz Spayd, the paper's sixth public editor, was under fire from some staffers for what they considered overly critical columns about the paper's news coverage, including one earlier this year that suggested the Times failed to report in 2016 everything that its reporters knew about allegations of Trump campaign contacts with Russia.

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Internal complaints about Spayd had been rumbling for months. Though all public editors are, to a certain degree, unpopular within their own newsrooms, the disapproval with Spayd was particularly pronounced.

Times editor Dean Baquet called her piece on the paper's coverage of Trump and Russia "a bad column."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/new-york-times-public-editor-239000

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While I am not crazy about the elimination of the Public Editor position, Spayd was a poor editor having defended the Times false equivalency coverage of Hillary's e-mails with all the scandals surrounding Trump, as well as the Times hiring of a climate change denier as a columnist.

[hatrack]

1. Spayd was horrible - snotty and condescending when called out on the Stephens hire . . .

Good riddance (though she's there for another year or two, IIRC).

[Justice]

2. no she is done now writing final column

[MiddleClass]

3. after six and a half hours researching, I found out the whole story

God damn New York Times had the goods on Donald Trump, Russian connections before the election,

but held off.

This woman wrote about it, what they wrote the weekend before the election.

][link:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html|


what she wrote, after being told to hold off.
][link:https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/public-editor/one-thing-voters-agree-on-better-campaign-coverage-was-needed.html|


And what she wrote after
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/public-editor/trump-russia-fbi-liz-spayd-public-editor.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-public-editor&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection|

I guess they don't need a public editor to undermine the overall editor, they both detrimental to Hillary's chances. One was into false equivalency, (the one fired).

The other was too chicken shit, too scared from being browbeaten by trump, to Focking report the news