Tanden added: “There are really amazing reporters at this newspaper who are let down by this bullshit.” Indeed, he wants media that kowtow to him to flourish.” “What makes Trump happy is the ability to attack the press in the morning, and then precisely because of his bullying, they accept his narrative that he’s fighting racism,” she tweeted. Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Washington think tank the Center for American Progress, was typical of the Times’ army of critics, implying that the paper had caved to Trump’s constant attacks on the news media.

“It was written on deadline and when it was passed along for approval we all saw it was a bad headline and changed it pretty quickly,” Baquet texted The Daily Beast on Tuesday morning as critics continued to vent their outrage on social media. It was a mistake that immediately prompted widespread criticism from high-profile Trump detractors once images of the paper’s front page surfaced online Monday night it also provoked attacks on the Times’ political coverage generally, and even vows to cancel subscriptions. RACISM,” blazoned the four-column headline at the top-right of the front page of the Times’ first edition-a strangely credulous framing of an appropriately skeptical story by Michael Crowley and Maggie Haberman.

Trump, who spent the weekend offering “thoughts and prayers” and tweeting attacks on “fake news” among other perceived enemies from his New Jersey golf club, gave his stiffly delivered speech on TelePrompTer in the aftermath of two mass shootings that have left 31 dead in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio-to which the 45th president mistakenly referred as “Toledo” at one point in his remarks. New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet acknowledged Tuesday that his newspaper messed up with a front-page headline over its lead story on President Donald Trump’s Monday televised address.

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