The NY Times’ Cowardice: Giving In to the Online Mob
THE ISSUE: The New York Times’ decision to edit a headline about President Trump after Twitter backlash.
Michael Goodwin explained exactly what has happened to The New York Times and to American journalism in general. You must provide your readers with a schadenfreude experience or lose them (“All the views that lefties demand,” Aug. 11) .
The digital mob forced the Times to change a headline because it was President Trump-neutral and not Trump-critical.
It’s this agenda-driven behavior of the Times that is truly deplorable.
Miles Kuttler Aventura, Fla.
The Fourth Estate is the information highway for the people. When the media are compromised by political bias, be it right or left, it does an injustice to the nation.
The New York Times recently changed a headline that read “Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism” to “Assailing Hate But Not Guns” after pressure from anti-Trumpers.
The fact that the media can be politically influenced is despicable. Where do we turn for the facts? Who can we trust to report the news accurately? Google has been accused of manipulation of search results and censoring information.
It doesn’t matter what your political preferences are; when media set out to manipulate public opinion, it’s an affront to our democracy.
Al D’Angelo The Bronx
For one brief shining moment, the Times came up with an opinion-neutral headline only to cave in to the Twitter Resistance mob’s campaign to cancel subscriptions.
That editing of its own original headline, making way for its ideologically corrected second headline, indicates the extent to which the Resistance, the Democratic Party and their media cohorts have morphed into one giant crying machine because of the 2016 election.
James Hyland Beechhurst
The decision by the Times to change the headline regarding Trump’s response to the mass shootings is an abominable dereliction of judicious reportage.
Ironically, that initial headline may have actually helped to ease the political tension following the shootings, for it was proper and accurate, and many people are influenced by what the Times chooses to print.
But anything that doesn’t demonize Trump is anathema to the far left. It is hard to say which is more disgraceful: the lunatic left or the Times for its abdication of its formerly objective standards.
James McCaffery Yonkers