[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] New York Times...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
Executive Editor Dean Baquet said his newspaper's insular world view is at fault for so wrongly misreading the election that saw Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
become the president-elect.
In an interview with Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg, Baquet said he and his publication on the lam did not see Trump's coming success on Election Day because they do not understand much of the country's voters.
"If I have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it's that we've got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to -- especially if you happen to be a New York-based news organization -- and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world," he said.
Baquet's apologia was a refrain of what many journalists and news hounds have said since it was clear that Trump would likely win the nomination in the early months of 2016. But even up until Election Day, most news outlets predicted a win for Clinton.
| If the NYT had openly admitted that they were the newspaper of record for Midtown, no one would mind. It's just that they claimed to speak for every "enlightened" citizen in the country, when in fact they didn't... |