OPINION_ The New York Times doesn’t write headlines anymore – the mob does

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The New York Times doesn’t write headlines anymore – the mob does 

By Kyle Smith 
August 7, 2019 | 1:34pm | Updated


  
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The editor of the New York Times said an interesting thing the other day: He doesn’t do the front page. 

 “I don’t lay out the page. I don’t pick the front-page stories,” Dean Baquet, lead editor of the paper, told the Columbia Journalism Review after his paper changed a headline Monday night because reporting neutrally about President Trump for even five words isn’t allowed anymore.

 I know some people who edit New York newspapers for a living and I’m pretty sure they not only write front-page headlines, they dream front-page headlines. The front-page headline is the face of the newspaper, whether it’s running in print or online. Granted, Baquet has a lot on his plate. But the front-page headline is the main course. 

 So who does edit the front page? The mob, apparently. Baquet is fortunate in that there are a lot of volunteers out there willing to do his job for nothing. Nate Silver, the former Times blogger-turned-Resistance pundit, came out against the Times on Twitter when it ran the unexceptionable headline “TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM.” I say “unexceptionable” because the lead story was about a speech in which the president did, in fact, urge unity against racism.

Nevertheless, a Twitter campaign mounted, with thousands of keyboard warriors riling themselves up with the #CancelNYT hashtag.

So the Times caved and changed the headline to “ASSAILING HATE BUT NOT GUNS.” Trump’s speech was supposed to assail guns? “Curse you, inanimate objects!”

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/08/07/the-new-york-times-doesnt-write-headlines-anymore-the-mob-does/ 

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So who does edit the front page? The mob, apparently. ... 

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