Brian Stelter, a CNN anchor and former media reporter for the New York Times, roundly criticized his former employer Monday over its publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon.
“The New York Times is a great newspaper, I used to work there, but this is inexcusable. This was something that was straight out of Nazi propaganda,” Stelter said Monday.
“And the idea that any editor there, even some obscure editor in some far-flung office would see this and think it was appropriate is shocking,” Stelter continued. “The Times needs to be held accountable on this.”
The cartoon in question was published Thursday and portrayed President Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is depicted as a service dog for the blind on a leash with a Star of David collar.
The Times initially responded to backlash over the cartoon by saying its publication was “an error in judgment.” But then issued a more thorough apology Sunday noting that the decision to publish it came from a single editor and that there would be “significant changes.”
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“We are committed to making sure nothing like this happens again,” the Sunday statement said. “Such imagery is always dangerous, and at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, it’s all the more unacceptable.”
We apologize for the anti-Semitic cartoon we published. Here’s our statement. pic.twitter.com/nifZahutpO
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) April 28, 2019
