In the Bag Cover-up, NYT scolded by public editor for keeping Libya hearing coverage off front page

What else is to be expected when the Executive Editor, Jill Abramson, is an "end justifies the means" committed leftist who will give cover exclusively to the left side, importance of facts be damned. It is a tradition at the NY Times along with bloated, meaningless articles. m/r

NYT scolded by public editor for keeping Libya hearing coverage off front page | Fox News

October 12, 2012

FoxNews.com

Amid concerns that some in the mainstream media are downplaying the Libya terror attack, The New York Times' public editor scolded The Grey Lady this week for burying its coverage of the first congressional hearing on the deadly assault. 

The pointed rebuke from Margaret Sullivan, whose job is to represent the interests of Times readers, said the hearing story "belonged on The Times's front page." 

Instead, it was on A3 -- while other major papers like The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post put it on the cover Thursday. 

"I can't think of many journalistic subjects that are more important right now, or more deserving of aggressive reporting," Sullivan wrote, adding that readers wrote to her "in dismay" about the apparent downplaying. 

The Times' editors explained to Sullivan that they thought the hearing was politicized, and that's why they tucked coverage inside. Meanwhile, stories on Lance Armstrong and other topics made their way to the front page. 

Executive Editor Jill Abramson, while defending the paper's overall Libya coverage, said "congressional hearings are not all about fact-finding." 

Managing Editor Dean Baquet said: "I didn't think there was anything significantly new in it." 

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