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LessAspin

(1,149 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 09:02 PM Aug 2019

Dean Baquet, NYT exec editor, "doesn't see this moment in American history as particularly aberrant"

In an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Baquet makes it clear that he does not appreciate how dangerous Trump is...

“I get that people see the phenomenon of someone who says inflammatory statements as a new thing,” he says. “I grew up in the South. I covered Edwin Edwards.” (Baquet was a reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune when a candidate for Louisiana governor told him famously: “Only way I lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”)

“Americans have a way of thinking that nothing like this has happened before,” Baquet says. “Picture what the newsrooms of the New York Times and the Washington Post were like when people thought the draft and Vietnam meant that they were literally going to have to fight a war."...

https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/nyt-headline-trump-mass-shootings.php

How out of touch can these guys be? Those who need to hold Trump accountable really don't see a problem.
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Dean Baquet, NYT exec editor, "doesn't see this moment in American history as particularly aberrant" (Original Post) LessAspin Aug 2019 OP
Even people this smart and accomplished can say amazingly stupid shit from time to time Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #1
Is he the asshole that wrote the headline about Trump they changed yesterday? dem4decades Aug 2019 #2
Because Edwin Edwards? BeyondGeography Aug 2019 #3
What is happening at the Times!!?? Shitty people make shitty journalists Thekaspervote Aug 2019 #4
Hey Bucket! House of Roberts Aug 2019 #5
Vomit. Fire Dean Baquet sharedvalues Aug 2019 #6
"Hawley answers Trumps call for election challenge" --NYT LessAspin Dec 2020 #7

dem4decades

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2. Is he the asshole that wrote the headline about Trump they changed yesterday?
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 09:05 PM
Aug 2019

I cancelled my online subscription.

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