NY Times editor admits paper’s liberal bias
In his final column for the New York Times as public editor Clark Hoyt admits the paper has a liberal bent.
From the New York Times
For all of my three years, I heard versions of Kevin Keller’s accusation: The Times is a “liberal rag,” pursuing a partisan agenda in its news columns. There is no question that the editorial page is liberal and the regular columnists on the Op-Ed page are heavily weighted in that direction. There is also no question that The Times, though a national newspaper, shares the prevailing sensibilities of the city and region where it is published. It does not take creationism or intelligent design as serious alternatives to the theory of evolution. It prints the marriages and commitment ceremonies of same-sex couples. It covers art and cultural events out on the edge.
For conservatives this admission only confirms what we have known all along but has never been admitted by anyone working at the Times until now.
I think it’s interesting that Hoyt waited until his last column to address the issue even though he acknowledges that he has heard accusations of the paper being a “liberal rag ” for years.
Now that Hoyt has let the genie out of the bottle what are the odds that Donald Graham or anyone else for that matter at the Washington Post will do the same?
Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media and its sister organisation Accuracy in Academia.
