Former New York Times Editor Says Newspaper ‘Bleeds’ a Progressive Worldview
- Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:30am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Outgoing New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane used his final column Saturday to essentially accuse the paper of having a liberal bias, something he said has led topics like gay marriage and the Occupy movement to be taken up “more like causes than news subjects.”
Brisbane, who was charged with critiquing the Times’ coverage during his two-year stint, said he doesn’t believe it is the result of any kind of “conspiracy,“ rather something that is ”powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds.”
“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,” Brisbane wrote.
He continued, “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.”
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson pushed back against Brisbane’s claims to Politico, saying the newsroom is “always conscious that the way we view an issue in New York is not necessarily the way it is viewed in the rest of the country or world.”
“I agree with another past public editor, Dan Okrent, and my predecessor as executive editor, Bill Keller, that in covering some social and cultural issues, the Times sometimes reflects its urban and cosmopolitan base,” Abramson told Politico. “But I also often quote, including in talks with Mr. Brisbane, another executive editor, Abe Rosenthal, who wanted to be remembered for keeping ‘the paper straight.‘ That’s essential.”
Read the whole of Brisbane’s column here.
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Comments (82)
Southernsoul
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 1:16pmThey announce this like we have no clue. Just how stupid do they think we are?
Report Post »Honestybefore truth
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:28pmSouthernSoul;
Report Post »Your user name would lead them (not me) to think you are very stupid, not being from New York like them. They are a prime example of the adage: Journalism with an agenda is Propaganda. Can’t wait to see this paper go bankrupt. Maybe Murdoch will buy it, and can every single employee.
Bum thrower
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:15pmReally??!! Under what rock have they been; or think we have been; LIVING??
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:37pmDamn, Navin. Still the same one trick pony, eh?
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:59pmOur schools have tought our kids 2 be dumb down 2 freedom & capalist ways so we have news papers , mags, Prime TV news spilling lie & now we have greed ppl of all walks, weak greedy ppl. 2 deal with. Rare is the 2 – parent family with morals.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 10:26pmThey bleed a Progressive worldview and the people apparently knew that before they did which is why they are also bleeding customers. Communism is so 60 years ago… it’s time for the Times to catch up with the times.
Report Post »mmmmarilyn
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:59pmwhere did this ‘editor’ think he was working all this time MISSISSIPPI?
Report Post »bt1
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 1:14pmThe NYT is just another religious paper promoting the progressive faith with it’s messiah sitting in the White House. Unfortunately, this faith is at odds with economic realities which is why the policies of Obama do not and will never work. Instead of abandoning his failed beliefs, Obama doubles down while trying to control ever more areas of the economy and of our lives. The end result is a totalitarian society where those in power build fences to keep people from fleeing….
Report Post »1forthegoodguy
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:58pmYou mean an actual newspaper, and not a mouthpiece of the far right, like the Washington Times?! Wow!
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:52pmHahahahaha… wait your being serious?? Oh and I guess the Huffington Post is unbiased and nonpartisan too right? Your so funny!
Report Post »Mandolin44
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:59pmThere are no far right news papers, only radical Left, and EXTREMELY FACIST LEFT. The NYT is the later.
Report Post »Platonician
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 8:31pmYo Obama Troll. Thanks for remind me that there is at least one decent journal in America, there is a great reportage on The Tango World Cup.
Report Post »http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/tango-dance-world-cup/
Dau Tieng 59
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:35pmNYT all the news that fits.
They have give back more Pulitzer Prizes for their fictional reporting.
Report Post »They ar saying the last two years? The NYT has been a rag since the ’60s.
michael48
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:56pmdam onefor…they did a good job with your indoctrination…about as good a little lemming as you can get …bet you’re ready to jump off the cliff when told, if not before..have a “hoax and chains” day…
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:49pmI graduated from high scholl in 1963. My journalism teacher, an old LA times reporter told us there were two honest papers in the country, the Walstreet Journal and New York times-but the Times was becoming questionable. It did not take long to see it turn, and now in 2012 it is deplorable and when an honest person writes there, it becomes a huge deal. The death of the written paper is sad, and when we get more news and opinion on the internet, it is sad. Now we have lost any objectivity in the National news on TV except for “some” Fox and they are cable. Once apon a time you got real news in this country, not any more. A real article should be, by journalistic standard, “who, what, where, when and sometimes why”. That was what was taught to journalism students, then. Now?
Report Post »Amarilloan
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:46pmDuhh!!
Report Post »GumRock
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:00pmWho would have thunk it ..
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:24pmNo way…he’s kidding, right?
Report Post »db321
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:47pmDarn, you can now knock me over with a feather – I’m pluralized with shock.
I guess next your going to tell me that MSNBC bleeds Communist.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:21pmWhat’s black and white and (commie) red all over?
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:29pmNYT: The Voice of Treason.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:49pmBoth of you, that’s funny.
Report Post »mmmmarilyn
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:01amY’all must be creationists.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:11pmThe NYT is liberal? Really?
Jill Abramson executive editor of the NYT.
A native of New York City, Abramson received her high school diploma from Ethical Culture Fieldston School
The school is a prominent part of the *** Progressive Movement ***. Part of the school’s curriculum, per the philosophy of its founder, Felix Adler, includes courses in ethics and moral philosophy, along with required community service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Abramson
Report Post »http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Culture_Fieldston_School
Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:08pmIt’s Pravda …
Report Post »seniorveteran
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:08pmIf Brisbane thinks the NYT was fair and unbiased during the the 2008 Presidential Elections then he needs to analyze himself.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:07pmtv and paper news are trash. propaganda by the rich.
Report Post »Forced_Union_Worker
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:05pmour pet parrot reads the times every day.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:42pmOur small home town paper used to be owned by the NYT until recently. It is still called the Times though. Back in early ‘69 my class took a tour of the high school that we would be attending in the Fall. I still remember the head librarian giving us the tour of the school’s library and in particular the periodicals section. She introduced us all to the variety of daily newspapers they had, and at the very end she said that they even have available daily, the Gadsden Fish Wrapper. Today, in 2012, that name still fits.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:53pmHi RJJ,
“…the Gadsden Fish Wrapper”
Now that’s funny!!!! Thanks….
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:36pmHey MONK, I certainly can’t claim that moniker as coming from me. But, as long ago as that was I still not only remember her saying that, but also that serious look on this elderly woman’s face! Priceless.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:03pmOoh, big surprise. Difference is they are certainly more fair then the Blaze could ever dream of, and Times readers aren’t as easily brainwashed as the beck clones.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:21pmBrainwashed? When I got to a liberal site & post the following, they immediately take it down.
Of course if I cite a Bible passage they won;t take it down but mock it. But if I have non Biblical arguments than they ban it. You are they brainwashed one.
http://current.com/community/89099881_we-are-not-born-gay-sweedish-twin-study-shows.htm
http://www.canadiantimes.ca/CMS/index.php/icv/858-confusing-grade-three-children-with-six-gender-teaching-is-wrong
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 1:06pm@MBRIZ
I realize your a moron but I’ll waste my time explaining the difference between apples and cinder blocks anyway.
The NY Times tries to pass itself off as a source of unbiased news (which is laughable). “Journalist” are supposed to be the watchdogs for the people ,not the propaganda arm and attack dog for the democrat party. You see the NY Times are LIARS because they pretend to something they most certainly are not. Since we all know they are lying about who they are and where they are coming from ,how can anyone believe anything they print ?
The Blaze is an openly conservative website ,which post stories that we would never see in the NY Times. Did you see the part where I typed “openly conservative” that means you know exactly where “The Blaze” is coming from .
Report Post »bfranklin63032
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 6:26pmThey are bankrupting themselves by promoting communism for the USA. Just hope we can Chic Fil A them.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:01pmNo suprise there.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:59amThe fact that progressivism bleeds through is known, what I’d like to know is how anything that bleeds that much lives?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:35pmI have wondered the same thing. They’ve cut back on their employees so much I wonder how they even get it printed and delivered each day. I‘ve read that they’ve lost so much advertising too. You’d think they are being quietly propped up by some of that stimulus money.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:27pmRJJINGADSDEN
Report Post »The rag of record is definitely being propped up and I’m sure it’s the usual Marxist socialist suspects.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:40pmRLTW, I’m sure that you are right. They cannot be self supporting.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:57amJust read Maureen Dowd’s column today. She is the penultimate Lefty NYT’s Obama gal. In one column she smears Romney for changing positions, mentions ” right wing lunacy,” castigates Ryan for being against abortion , and describes conservatives as ” Neo-Neamnderthals.” Any bias detected ?? The New York Times is the “Leakiest” ship in the journalism pool. The Obama Democrats give it all of their favorable , secret , top security “water.” And the NYT just loves to leak it to the public. Hope they all get prosecuted !
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:57pmMaureen Dowd is a bitter, nasty woman, and has been for some time. She is a total progressive who never saw a government control she disliked. Her tone is always nasty, condescending, I’m smarter and better than you little people. She is in a word, a shmuck. I don’t hate her, I pity her wallowing in her garbage.
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:25pmI once read an editorial by Comrade Dowd years ago arguing FOR reparations. The gist of her “argument” was that all of us benefited from slave labor because of the infrastructure blacks were forced to build (sounds a bit like Barry’s “You didn’t build That” argument). She went on to explain that HER family made big money in the 18th century in shipping that was build on slave labor to explain just why YOU and I owe reparations.
Then it became clear to me. She’s just another “White Guilt” person weighed down by her family’s past. Since nobody in MY family EVER owned a slave, I have NO “White Guilt”.
As for the part about having to repay slaves for infrastructure, if that were true, then every illegal immigrant would have to pay reparations to those of us that were born here because they’re using the infrastructure that WE built. Of course, Progressives don’t see the linkage there either.
PS. I quit reading the rag after that.
Report Post »stuharnden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:56amI guess us hicks just do not understand its urban and cosmopolitan base and social and cultural issues.You sure can not beat it for lining the cat box and bird cage. The big Sunday edition is really great there is enough left to start the wood stove. Now don’t you people get all snarky.
O’Lord, O’Bummer, Obama
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:53amI don’t know which is more rediculous, reading articles from the NYT’s that are so liberal and progressive that most of middle America, the south and the moutain west can’t even identify with what is written there!
Or, when on the morning “news” programs–Good Morning America, Today, etc., they do a segment on the latest “handbags” or “belts” or “gizmo’s,” and again, most of the working U.S. doesn’t give a flip about $500 handbags, or $200 belts, or a gizmo to make something or schedule your life–most of us do these things ourselves, without “gizmo’s“ to ”help” us!
The cities of the northeast and the west coast, along with Chicago and several others do not realized that the REAL PEOPLE of the United States of Amerioca are struggling to live their life, to help their children succeed in that life and to keep their car on the road and put food on the table, while praying for rain or sun or whatever is needed in their everyday life.
The NYT is irrelavent to most Americans, but still affects the leaders of our Country’s attitudes. Take the farm boy off the farm and put him in the “greenhouse” of Washington, DC, and it changes him!
You are history NYT’s for most of us!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:48pmHILLBILLYINNY,
Report Post »“Or, when on the morning “news” programs–Good Morning America, Today, etc., they do a segment on the latest “handbags” or “belts” or “gizmo’s,” and again, most of the working U.S. doesn’t give a flip about $500 handbags, or $200 belts, or a gizmo to make something or schedule your life–most of us do these things ourselves, without “gizmo’s“ to ”help” us”
That point simply jumped right out at me, and you made an excellent one. It is really funny how these “journalists” and “commentators” slobber all over these expensive gadgets, and clothing accessories, then turn around and say that Mitt is out of touch with the common man. LOL, just who else is really out of touch and proves it on a daily basis?
stumpy68
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:48pmIve been wondering for years if there is something about
Report Post »large cities that turn peoples brains to mush?,
Or if liberals / progressives just have a herd mentality
and like to cluster together.
ModerationIsBest
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:52amGerald Celente calls it, “The toilet paper of record” lol
Report Post »502_eagle
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:49amRut-ro He is gonna be in trouble with NBC, CNN and many others.
Report Post »canadianproud
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:54amWay to say it Scooby!!!
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:43amThe new york times will be bankrupt and out of business soon .
Report Post »Stab_friendly
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:51amUm yeah., okay ….
Report Post »bfranklin63032
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 6:30pmHOPE for that CHANGE
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:42amJill Abramson… the truth hurts.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:40amMajor media is biased, with no doubt. Even at the core of FOX NEWS Corp. It’sunfair, unbalanced and very afraid.
Report Post »Z
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:38amAgenda has no Truth
Report Post »xendude
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:46ampeople do
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:35amShocking! Earth-shattering! Breaking news! The NYT’s is a liberal group?
I do love how I get a letter from them BEGGING me to take their paper each month. What a waste of postage and ink. Of course, their paper is a waste of ink. Piss off, NYT’s.
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