Could rightwing dissatisfaction get a NY Times headline changed?
A photo of the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times sparked immediate criticism on Monday night – including from several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
The headline read “Trump urges unity vs. racism.” It comes after President Donald Trump addressed the nation after mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, that killed nine and 22 people, respectively.
The headline ran in the Times’ first print edition and was changed in subsequent editions, The Times told USA TODAY in a statement Tuesday.
The original headline didn’t sit well with a number of Democrats.
“Let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by – and often relies upon – the cowardice of mainstream institutions,” tweeted Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
The Times’ headline was changed for the newspaper’s next edition, reading “Assailing hate but not guns.“
Ali tweeted appreciation: “This one is on point! Thank you!”
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who told CNN over the weekend that Trump was “responsible for this,” said via Twitter: “Lives literally depend on you doing better, NYT. “Please do.” (LOL!!!!! -bfh)
As a result of the controversy, the hashtag #CancelNYT began trending on Twitter Tuesday afternoon as social media users expressed outrage about the headline. Many demanded the resignation of Times editors while pledging to unsubscribe from the paper and calling for others to do the same.
Let this serve as a reminder of who controls “all the news that’s fit to print.”
“Love Trumps Hate” was SO 2016.
“HATE TRUMPS TRUTH” – Democrats 2019
This is why corporations should not be allowed to have “special voting shares” that keep control of a company in family hands even after all the common voting shares are voted against them. If Fox has the guts they ought to run with this as lead story to show how the MSM bend a knee to the left although I suspect that some figure behind the curtain gave the order to both send the twitter and for the NYT to react to it.
Really no better than Pravda. I think Pravda cost less though
“All the News is Print to Fit”
All the news that fits (our agenda) we print!
I always thought a newspaper provided news. Editorials are in back.
The first headline was accurate news.
When you have to be more woke just to keep your subscribers… :/
In all fairness, only brain dead Marxists still read that worthless rag of lies that is the Times so the Times has to be extra careful to not upset them (and that can be a remarkably difficult, almost impossible, task).
The lunatics are shooting up the wrong venues.
“Only the news that fits.” No other news need apply.
The Times journos are ‘checked’ by their Mexican connections.
Shhhh.
“All the News That’s Fit to House Train a St. Bernard”.