Eric Boehlert at Media Matters anatomizes the bizarrely skewed post-election mea culpa by Public Editor Liz Spayd.
“At every turn, the readers with whom Spayd chooses to engage criticize the purported liberalism of the Times’ coverage. The message the public editor sends is clear: the paper should move to the right to quell reader concerns.
“Yet not a single reader whom Spayd chose to include in her post-campaign analysis expressed any concern about the daily’s Clinton coverage. Nor did she feature any complaints that the paper’s coverage of Trump may have been insufficiently rigorous. Instead, criticism from the left of the paper’s general election coverage was entirely absent.”
Boehlert asks,”Did the newsroom learn the wrong lessons from the 2016 campaign?”
For the sake of American democracy, we can only bloody well hope not.