You want to talk about political cannibalism its happening.
The New York Times of all media put out a positive headline back on August 6 favoring President Trump in reference to the recent and extremely violent mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas.
Well the left went absolutely nuts over it and as expected the NYT caved in and changed it.
A Times Headline About Trump Stoked Anger. A Top Editor Explains.
A deputy managing editor addresses a front-page headline about President Trump that readers criticized for lacking important context.
. “The Times should know better.”
The New York Times of all media put out a positive headline back on August 6 favoring President Trump in reference to the recent and extremely violent mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas.
Well the left went absolutely nuts over it and as expected the NYT caved in and changed it.
A Times Headline About Trump Stoked Anger. A Top Editor Explains.
A deputy managing editor addresses a front-page headline about President Trump that readers criticized for lacking important context.
A print headline on Tuesday’s front page for an article about President Trump’s statement addressing last weekend’s mass shootings has added to a continuing debate over how news organizations cover his administration.
Times editors were concerned that the initial headline — “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism” — did not contextualize Mr. Trump’s message on Monday and decided to change it for later editions to “Assailing Hate but Not Guns.”
Many readers, including Democratic politicians and other critics of the president, condemned the first headline on Twitter.
Headlines like this ignore all the context of #Trump’s actions and past remarks, make him suddenly look presidential,” Jerry Lanson, a professor emeritus of journalism at Emerson College, tweeted. “The Times should know better.”
We asked Matt Purdy, a deputy managing editor, to address the criticism and offer insight into our editorial process:
We needed to deliver a nuanced message in a very small space under tight deadlines, and unfortunately, our first attempt at that did not hit it right.
When a group of top editors received an email with the first edition of the front page last night, we saw the headline, realized that it was not a good one and decided to change it. It’s not uncommon for our masthead editors to adjust headlines as we go.
As this conversation was happening among Times editors, readers began discussing the initial headline on Twitter. They rightly pointed out that the initial headline didn’t reflect the story accurately.
We are very proud of the great work our reporters and editors have done on last weekend’s mass shootings, and on Mr. Trump and race. But we agree that headlines are extremely important, and in this case, we should have done better.
