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NY Times Public Editor Admits Paper 'Has Moved Away' From 'Just The Facts'
By Clay Waters, July 19, 2015 NewsBusters
In a Sunday Review column ostensibly about her paper's biased, social-activist coverage of the firing of Reddit chief executive Ellen Pao, New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan let slip an unannounced editorial change by the Times, opening the floodgates even wider for reporters to inject liberal impulses into their news stories: "They want to provide 'value-added' coverage," not the "just the facts" reporting "that one can get anywhere." For the Times, "value-added" means "liberal bias."
Technology reporter Mike Isaac's July 10 first draft on the resignation of Pao, pressured by Reddit contributors who were angry about the dismissal of a user liaison popular among the moderators of the news-and-opinion bulletinn board, was evidently too objective to feed the needs of social justice. As Twitchy recorded, the revised version transformed the piece from fact to opinion, focusing on alleged Silicon Valley sexism and not Pao's actual performance at Reddit, with loaded paragraphs like this dumped in (so loaded that this version itself was dialed back by the time the article reached print): - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2015/07/19/ny-times-public-editor-admits-paper-has-moved-away-just-facts#.au1sus:JzLf
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