A certain former president regularly decried major outlets, including the Times, as "fake news."
The public's trust in the media sits at near-lows.
Journalists, he tells NPR, "need to have humility, that if you're following the facts, wherever they lead, they often lead to a question. "When the facts are absolutely clear they should be called out unequivocally and unapologetically," Sulzberger says. Not that he wants a mealy mouthed approach to discerning the truth in the age of misinformation. And I really think that that can create blind spots and echo chambers." Reporters and editors "need to have humility," Sulzberger says Too often, he says, "journalists are demonstrating that they're on the side of the righteous. And those concerns often reflect perspectives considered to come from the left.Īmerica Reckons With Racial Injustice Rancor Erupts In 'LA Times' Newsroom Over Race, Equity And Protest Coverage Sulzberger's public statements arrive after the #MeToo and social justice movements that inspired greater activist sentiment inside major newsrooms, including his own. No offense to point-of-view outlets, he says, but it's not the right role for the Times and other major news organizations. No, Sulzberger responds emphatically in a 12,400-word essay posted Monday morning in the Columbia Journalism Review.
"Is it enough for journalists to describe the world as it is, or should they try to fix it? Should they try to crusade for a better version of it?" "This is something we hear often from inside our industry and outside it," Sulzberger tells NPR in an exclusive interview. They came of age as cable news and online sites pulled journalism toward opinion and advocacy, and they emerged with their own ideas about how the news business should operate. Sulzberger was born in 1980, just a year before the first millennials. The New York Times chairman and publisher A.G. Sulzberger, shown above, on Monday called for journalists to operate independent of government pressure, corporate influence, partisan agenda - and personal ideology. New York Times chairman and publisher A.G.
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