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NY Times Executive Editor Calls Opinion Page ‘Far Left Wing’ In Private Meeting, Student Says

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DAILY CALLER: The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet labeled the paper’s opinion page as “far left wing” and defended the hiring of columnist Bret Stephens, during a private meeting with members of Stanford University’s college newspaper, according to a student at the meeting.

Baquet addressed the staff of The Stanford Daily before his scheduled public event Tuesday night. One student who does not work for the paper, Elliot Kaufman, snuck in and took notes before giving exclusive access to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

When an attendee raised the topic of journalism in the age of President Donald Trump, Baquet discussed the controversial hiring of Stephens — a self-identified “conservative” and former Wall Street Journal opinion writer.

“We already have a far left wing opinion page,” said Baquet before explaining why he thought the paper could hire someone like Stephens without fundamentally altering the section’s partisan bent.

Baquet also criticized students at other universities for intolerant behavior. Baquet applauded the peaceful coexistence that the Hoover Institute shares with Stanford and called it “probably the most reputable conservative think tank.”

“If the Hoover Institute was at [the University of California, Berkeley], they’d burn it down,” he added. “If it was at Columbia [University], they might burn it down.”  read more

8 Comments on NY Times Executive Editor Calls Opinion Page ‘Far Left Wing’ In Private Meeting, Student Says

  1. What, exactly, does “far left wing” mean?
    Stalinist?
    Maoist?
    National Socialist?
    Fascist?
    Sendero Luminoso-ist?
    ANC-ist?
    ZANU-ist?

    If one uses words to obscure, rather than to illuminate, one is probably hiding something (DUH). This is a guy who is paid to inform the public?

    They put their own shit in the street and yet they *still* get advertisers and subscribers?

    izlamo delenda est …

  2. Hey, Cliché, “That is quite an accomplishment for them to hear that directly to their stupid faces.” means that was instructions, not an admission of guilt. ‘Cause the left is never ‘guilty’ of anything.

  3. Boy is he bright, not!
    They entire NYT has been far left wing for over 120 years.

    Go to you big local library and look up:

    Sacco + Vanzetti

    White Russians – Duranty. Pulitzer

    Only the W Post has been nearly as far left for decades. LAT has been left for 70 years, but far left only 60 years.

    I know Baquet not; but I bet he has degrees from Yale + Harvard.

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