Asked directly if the Times slants its coverage to favor “Democrats and liberals,”… [now former editor Tim Keller] added: “Aside from the liberal values, sort of social values thing that I talked about, no, I don’t think that it does.”
The bottom line: Keller insists the newspaper he ran for eight years is playing it straight in its political coverage.
However, he admitted it has an urban, liberal bias when it comes to stories about social issues. And what are America’s hot-button social issues? Any list would include sex, salvation, abortion, euthanasia, gay rights, cloning and a few other sensitive matters that are inevitably linked to religion.
I think the New York Times has little credibility at this point. The Wall Street Journal has largely replaced it, at least among people I know. You don’t see many copies of the Times floating around in this neck of the woods. People will be reading the Journal, but only rarely the Times and it’s difficult to find somewhere that still sells it.
I assume there is a liberal cadre the paper still plays to, but I can’t imagine many of those folks exist outside New York, D.C. and other liberal bastions. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Times is gone within the next 5-10 years.
The improvement of the Journal– by which I mean the widening of its editorial scope– has been stunning.
The Journal will never reach the comprehensiveness of the Sunday Times, but then again it doesn’t have to: the Sunday Times is bloated with irrelevent narcissism. I will lay my marker inside Jim the Puritan’s and predict that, while the Times will not completely disappear, it will, like the Episcopal Church in our generation, become completely unrecognizable, and that before the next US Presidential election cycle (2015).
Asked directly if the Times slants its coverage to favor “Democrats and liberals,”… [now former editor Tim Keller] added: “Aside from the liberal values, sort of social values thing that I talked about, no, I don’t think that it does.”
Wasn’t it an NYT reporter who said of Nixon’s win: ‘How could that happen? I don’t know anyone who voted for him.’