New York Times is ‘under siege’ after opinion editor row

DONALD TRUMP said yesterday that The New York Times was “under siege” after the dramatic resignation of Bari Weiss, an opinion editor at the paper.

Ms Weiss, 36, published an open letter to the paper on Tuesday accusing it of kowtowing to a Twitter mob. She also claimed she had been bullied by colleagues for her controversial views.

“Wow,” the president tweeted. “The @nytimes is under siege. The real reason is that it has become fake news. They never covered me correctly, they blew it. People are fleeing, a total mess.”

Ms Weiss said the paper was blinded by its liberal readership, and refused to attempt to see other points of view.

She said that articles “are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world, and then draw their own conclusions.”

“They have called me a Nazi and a racist,” she wrote.

Eileen Murphy, a Times spokesman, said: “We’re committed to fostering an environment of honest dialogue between colleagues, one where mutual respect is required of all.”