Bias At The New York Times?

New York Times Public Editor: Progressive Worldview 'Bleeds Through' The Times -- Politico

Arthur Brisbane, the departing public editor at the New York Times, has accused the paper of having a progressive bias, even as he champions its disciplined approach to fair and balanced reporting.

"When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so," Brisbane writes in his final column. "Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times."

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My Comment: Not surprisingly, the executive editor of the New York Times vehemently disagrees. What's my take .... the executive editor of the New York Times must think we are idiots. I became a regular reader of the New York Times in the early 1980s. I was working for a "think tank" as a researcher whose responsibility was to clip trending stories from U.S. and Canadian newspapers .... it also helped in improving my English, as well as informing me on what was happening around the world. The New York Times immediately became a must read for me, but over the years it morphed into something else. While it's international stories and reporting is still a must read for me, it's U.S. domestic coverage is .... in my opinion .... and one that comes from reading the Times for 30 years .... sucks. If I was interested in gay issues, occupy Wall Street, what the fringes in the Republican Party may think .... maybe .... but that is not my focus. My focus is on the U.S. domestic economy, solutions to curb government overspending, defense and intelligence issues .... and on these issues the New York Times' coverage is not what it use to be .... and that is a crying shame.

Kudos to the departing public editor Arthur Brisbane for publishing this story .... even though (not surprisingly) it is his last one for the New York Times.