Merchants of Propaganda

Jill Abramson doesn’t mind bias in the New York Times as long as it is her own.

George Neumayr January 4, 2019

Previews of Jill Abramson’s upcoming book, Merchants of Truth, portray it as a blown whistle on the paper’s incorrigible anti-Trump streak. But is the criticism sincere? Or is she just settling scores with Dean Baquet, an old colleague who bested and replaced her? It appears like the latter........She doesn’t mind bias on the front page, as long as it is her own, which her tenure as the top editor abundantly confirmed................What annoys Abramson is not so much that Baquet is biased but that his version of biased coverage is selling better than hers did. ...........She claims to want editorial standards “without fear or favor,” one of the supposed guiding principles of the paper, but seems to think its employment practices should give female staffers bonus points for showing up. By all accounts, including her own, she was a poor manager. Yet she thinks feminist affirmative action should have protected her anyways. Abramson’s book isn’t a call for the elimination of politics and biases from newsrooms but simply a plea for the renewal of old ones............To Read More......