New York Times CEO Mark Thompson said he doesn’t believe the paper’s coverage has a liberal bias and doesn’t believe the Times has “lost touch” with people in between America’s two coasts.
In an interview Thursday on CNBC, Thompson said his publication does its best to be objective in its reporting and that’s why people continue to read its coverage.
“All I can tell you is we have the biggest audience of our history,” he said. “We have more subscribers. We hit 3 million subscribers, the biggest number in our history. We’re not losing touch. On the contrary, the people in millions are coming to us. If you ask me a different question, which is, how do we want to cover [President] Trump … I think what [Executive Editor] Dean Baquet would say is, we want to cover America and the world objectively, independently, truthfully.”
He said there’s “no question” the editorial pages of the Times are dominated by liberal voices but he said that even during the election, some readers believed the paper to be too hard on Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“There are people, there are Hillary loyalists who were upset the Times broke the story about Hillary’s private servers, for examples,” he said. “There was a feeling among some of our readers that we were too hard on Hillary.”
