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Related: About this forumDean 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 Im 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
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
Eliot Rosewater
(32,537 posts)1. Even people this smart and accomplished can say amazingly stupid shit from time to time
dem4decades
(11,975 posts)2. Is he the asshole that wrote the headline about Trump they changed yesterday?
I cancelled my online subscription.
BeyondGeography
(40,066 posts)3. Because Edwin Edwards?
Fml
Thekaspervote
(34,824 posts)4. What is happening at the Times!!?? Shitty people make shitty journalists
House of Roberts
(5,744 posts)5. Hey Bucket!
When was it that something like Trump has happened before?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)6. Vomit. Fire Dean Baquet
LessAspin
(1,420 posts)7. "Hawley answers Trumps call for election challenge" --NYT
New York Times still carrying Trump's water