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Clara Jeffery
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Please I beg everyone who works at the Times to make reinstating the public editor a top priority for the entire workforce and the union. nytimes.com/2019/09/26/rea…
I don’t agree with their decision. But given the outage a two graph statement by Baquet and a perky reader center frame just doesn’t help. And there are talented people in the reader center. But more introspection is needed.
Also why couldn’t they describe him as working for “an intelligence agency” instead of CIA and had expertise on Eastern Europe instead of Ukraine?

Did those specifics help the average reader take him that much more seriously? Idk.
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Clara Jeffery
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It’s the Times’ inability to hear and respect and respond to legitimate criticism (from many quarters on this issue and others!) that remains its signature fault. When they respond, too often out of defensive hubris.

Also this is a weird and disingenuous bit of whataboutism.
And, further, it is this attitude that makes even those who might be inclined to agree with or at least understand this decision and some others feel like it was not made thoughtfully.

Please restore the public editor, for the good of the paper.
I’ve written more about this in this mini thread:
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Clara Jeffery
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cool, cool nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/…
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Just want to point out again that Trump is advocating executing a whistleblower. nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/…
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Clara Jeffery
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Well, I for one would like to see every US Senator be forced to vote on whether or not to impeach.
That will be a vote that will hang on them for the rest of their service and lives.
Further, given just what's come out in the past 24 hours, I don't think there's still a solid argument that forcing the Senate to vote will hurt Democrats in 2020. In any case, it's right thing to do, morally and constitutionally.
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