The Times Has An Agenda
The L.A. Times, that is, according to its just resigned editorial page editor:
In an eye-opening online resignation from his position as editor of the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, Andres Martinez today lashed out at news reporters and editors for having an “agenda”:
Among the biggest possible conflicts of interest a newspaper can enter into is to have the same people involved in news coverage running opinion pages. I am proud of the fact that Jeff Johnson, Dean Baquet and I fully separated the opinion pages from the newsroom at the Times. I accept my share of the responsibility for placing the Times in this predicament, but I will not be lectured on ethics by some ostensibly objective news reporters and editors who lobby for editorials to be written on certain subjects, or who have suggested that our editorial page coordinate more closely with the newsroom’s agenda, and I strongly urge the present and future leadership of the paper to resist the cries to revisit the separation between news and opinion that we have achieved.
Wow.
Nobody who reads this blog is surprised to learn that the L.A. Times newsroom has an “agenda,” or that The Times’s “ostensibly objective news reporters and editors” . . . aren’t.
What is important about that statement is that it is made by someone who, until today, held a top editorial position at the L.A. Times.
In other words, he was in a position to know.
Read the whole resignation missive here….
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