PoliZette
by Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 01 Jun 2017 at 6:21 AM
Newspaper caves to financial pressure, left-wing rage and eliminates public editor position.
The New York Times decided to eliminate the newspaper’s public editor position because the outlet believes it has “outgrown” the need of internal oversight, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. informed employees in a company memo Wednesday.
Liz Spayd, the publication’s sixth and final public editor, is set to depart Friday from The Times when her position expires, the Huffington Post first reported Wednesday. With Spayd’s departure and the elimination of the role entirely, The Times will lose the accountability the independent, internal watchdog was meant to provide.
“It means the Times is caving in to lefty critics who have bashed Spayd for some time. She actually recognized the Times has serious issues with its own biases.”
“The responsibility of the public editor ― to serve as the reader’s representative ― has outgrown that one office,” Sulzberger wrote in his memo.
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