In Blunt Book on Media, Jill Abramson Dishes on The Times, Reveals Profane Dean Baquet Rant
The New York Times was airing its own dirty laundry, and Executive Editor Dean Baquet was not pleased.
Shortly after the 2016 election, the then-public editor of the New York Times published a piece saying the Times was “too timid” in its decision to sit on evidence in the summer and fall of 2016 of potential Russian meddling in the presidential election.
Eric Lichtblau has been frustrated with the Times hesitancy to publish some stories on this beat as well, and Baquet suspected he had spoken to the public editor Liz Spayd about his frustrations.