Letter from NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn to staff
Maybe the Times should have hired journalists, instead of activists
«Colleagues,
Yesterday, The New York Times received a letter delivered by GLAAD, an advocacy group, criticizing coverage in The Times of transgender issues.
It is not unusual for outside groups to critique our coverage or to rally supporters to seek to influence our journalism. In this case, however, members of our staff and contributors to The Times joined the effort. Their protest letter included direct attacks on several of our colleagues, singling them out by name.
Participation in such a campaign is against the letter and spirit of our ethics policy. That policy prohibits our journalists from aligning themselves with advocacy groups and joining protest actions on matters of public policy. We also have a clear policy prohibiting Times journalists from attacking one another’s journalism publicly or signaling their support for such attacks.
Our coverage of transgender issues, including the specific pieces singled out for attack, is important, deeply reported, and sensitively written. The journalists who produced those stories nonetheless have endured months of attacks, harassment and threats. The letter also ignores The Times’ strong commitment to covering all aspects of transgender issues, including the life experience of transgender people and the prejudice and violence against them in our society. A full list of our coverage can be viewed here, and any review shows that the allegations this group is making are demonstrably false.
We realize these are difficult issues that profoundly affect many colleagues personally, including some colleagues who are themselves transgender. We have welcomed and will continue to invite discussion, criticism and robust debate about our coverage. Even when we don’t agree, constructive criticism from colleagues who care, delivered respectfully and through the right channels, strengthens our report.
We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.
We live in an era when journalists regularly come under fire for doing solid and essential work. We are committed to protecting and supporting them. Their work distinguishes this institution, and makes us proud.
Joe & Katie»
If the NYT had any balls at all just fire all those who signed onto this letter. That would put a quick end to it.
That's the only thing that's going to stop all this cancel culture. Just destroy them openly and notoriously. From NFL players, to dudes on girls' swim teams to angry black professors screaming for the murder of all whites. Just cut them off.
So-called "Advocacy Journalism" is a virus carried by nearly all so-called journalists these days. It wasn't always so. Ron Fournier really opened the floodgates when he took over the AP. Before the 2000s, you could spot the bias but it took a little work because it was camouflaged in the language. You could tell whose side the journalists were on but they felt obliged to be at least somewhat accurate in reporting the other side. Now they are full-fledged partisan hacks channeling their inner Joy, Mika, or Rachel. The worst part is that it infects local papers, radio, and even tv. You visit Conservativesville, USA and open the paper or turn on the local news and you'll read or hear the same Commie crap you'd read or hear in NYC, DC, or San Francisco because it is largely being pulled from the AP or the network TV and radio feeds. That is one reason why half the country still believes Russia was in the tank for Trump for example. They have simply never been exposed to the truth on so many things. Even people who should know more don't. Recall how Tim Ryan had to be told by a FoxNews town hall audience that six cops weren't murdered in the Capitol on January 6. Or to continue the hit parade, "Hands up, Don't Shoot." As Ann mentioned again recently, "George Floyd: Model Citizen." I could go on and on. These "journalists" today all got their degrees from the Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism, and they majored in far-left activism.