NYT journo ices climate screed

(Gelles’) social media posts about the event may have been misunderstood to convey something other than impartiality, and as such have since been deleted. — New York Times spokesperson

A New York Times reporter deleted a LinkedIn post that urged a “truly radical” response to what he called a global “climate crisis” after fellow staffers at the newspaper reportedly complained the post had veered into advocacy and away from objective journalism.

David Gelles, the paper’s climate change correspondent, removed the post from LinkedIn that recounted remarks he had made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, according to Confider, the newsletter published by the Daily Beast.

“After the year that was the hottest in recorded history, with climate change ravaging every corner of the globe, I implored a room full of CEOs, diplomats and NGO leaders to step up their urgency and begin considering truly radical political and economic interventions,” Gelles wrote.

Gelles said it was “time to begin imagining what a society truly transformed will look like” and “to start identifying the hurdles that make disruptions to the status quo appear uneconomical, impractical or politically untenable.”

“The hour is late, and it’s incumbent on those with the capital and the clout to start deploying the whole of their resources toward the climate crisis,” Gelles wrote.

According to the Daily Beast, “Some Times staffers who spotted the posts . . . questioned whether it violated the Times ethics guidelines by crossing the line into advocacy.”

After the publication reached out to Gelles and the paper for comment, Gelles deleted the post, the Daily Beast reported.

A Times spokesperson told The Post that Gelles’ approach to reporting has always been impartial.

“While he brought this same ethos to his role speaking at an event at the World Economic Forum, subsequent social media posts about the event may have been misunderstood to convey something other than impartiality, and as such, have since been deleted.”

New York Times climate change correspondent David Gelles took down a post in which he called for a “radical” response to global warming after his colleagues questioned whether it violated ethics of “impartiality.”