Nina Bernstein was covering homelessness for the New York Times in 1999 when then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced his intention to lock homeless families out of the city’s shelters for even minor rule violations. (Stephen Colbert coined the phrase “reality has a well-known liberal bias” during the Bush administration.) The Weakest LinkBernstein said that in her experience, much of the resistance to bolder reporting comes from mid-level editors. “They’re trying to do what they think the top editors want” – even when the top editors themselves might have been more willing to push boundaries. “It’s very hard being a mid-level editor at the New York Times.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2021 18:21 UTC