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Why the Former New York Times Editor Is Blasting the Paper

Jun 29, 2018  •  Post A Comment

The former executive editor of The New York Times has harsh words for the paper, according to a report by The New York Post. Jill Abramson, who was ousted in 2014, “blasted the Gray Lady Thursday for what she said was its cluelessness in tracking the upset victory that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off over 10-term incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley,” The Post reports.

The report adds: “But her pique quickly escalated beyond the initial tweet when she claimed in a subsequent email to a reporter that the Times was being ‘narcissistic’ for allowing TV cameras inside and needed a ‘course correction’ in part for its coverage of its own young reporter Ali Watkins. Watkins is at the center of a leak investigation for receiving classified government material from her then-boyfriend, and she was the subject of a lengthy story in the Times last week.”

The report quotes a tweet from Abramson in which she writes: “Kind of pisses me off that @nytimes is still asking Who Is Ocasio-Cortez? when it should have covered her campaign. Missing her rise akin to not seeing Trump’s win coming in 2016.”

The Post also cites an email from Abramson to the Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove in which she writes: “I’m feeling about the NYT now like I did when my son cheated on a test in 10th grade. I loved him to death, believed he was a thoroughly wonderful young man, but he needed a course correction … So does the NYT … it’s making horrible mistakes left and right.”

2 Comments

  1. The Times missed this story. But what they need to do is follow up on why no one voted in this election. The fact that democrats could not get any enthusiasm about voting at all, sends a message about failure to reach the people. Many believe this failure of reaching the grass roots and turning out the vote is what cost Hillary the election. This needs to be fixed before November or the Dems may not have a blue wave.

  2. To say that the Hillary get-out-the-vote political machine was underpowered and thereby cost her the election is silly. Sixty million people voted for Trump, and forty million would vote for him against Hillary tomorrow (18 months into Trump’s completely chaotic and depressing first term) if called upon to do so. Hillary at the top of the Democratic ticket not only made voting for Trump easier among those who did vote, but it also made it far more difficult to attract voters (where more voters almost always is expected to help Democrats.) Hillary simply had no message for (nor interest in) tens of millions of so-called “deplorables” on November 8, 2016.

    Hilary is gone, but her elite disdain for the opposition lives on among Democrats. That is the real threat to a blue wave.

    If white suburbanites are not yet ready to walk away from Trump, there will be no blue wave. Do we now see evidence of such walking away from Trump? Nope.

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