New York Times Quietly Amends Election Coverage Letter
A bit of news that was only temporarily fit to print.
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Eagle-eyed New York Post media writer Keith J. Kelly noticed that the online version of a letter to New York Times readers from executive editor Dean Baquet and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. , carried on page A3 in the Sunday Nov. 13 print editions, no longer contains the following sentence:
We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign.
What happened? Here’s the explanation Kelly was given:
A Times spokeswoman acknowledged the missing sentence, but insisted it is “no great mystery.”
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