NYT Executive Editor Denies Liberal Bias; Paper Has 'Very Cosmopolitan, Inclusive Outlook'

Matthew Balan | April 22, 2014
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Jill Abramson of the New York Times denied that her newsppaper has a liberal bias during a Monday interview with Marlo Thomas of Huffington Post. Abramson asserted that the Time "reflects a very cosmopolitan, inclusive outlook, which can strike some readers as liberal," and later claimed that "the news pages are not ideological."

The executive editor zeroed in on the issue of gun control as her example of how the New York Times is supposedly balanced:

JILL ABRAMSON, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, NEW YORK TIMES: ...[W]hat I do to guard against opinion creeping too far into our news coverage is just watch it, and make sure that on certain stories, like – guns would be one – that – that a hundred percent of our stories aren't told from the perspective of, how could Americans be – you know, so connected to their guns? That this is – to recognize that this is a deep part of American society, and that we cover it – you know, from every angle.

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