Former New York Times Editor: I Have A Little Obama Doll In My Purse To Help Me Cope Under The Trump Presidency

In his last column for The New York Times, public editor Arthur Brisbane said that liberalism “virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times,” adding that reporters approach some liberal issues, such as gay marriage and the Occupy movement, “more like causes than news subjects.”

But Jill Abramson, then the Times executive editor, said not so. “In our newsroom we are always conscious that the way we view an issue in New York is not necessarily the way it is viewed in the rest of the country or world,” she told Politico in 2012. And she said she sought to follow the pledge of a former executive editor to keep the paper “straight.”