An Open Letter to New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger
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The Times has always been a newspaper by, and for, the elite, but by squeezing out the few alternative voices that you once employed, it no longer publishes those articles that illuminate and connect us to a world outside the Beltway, or beyond Harvard Square.
By Jon Jeter
Dear Mr. Sulzberger,
I read with great interest news accounts of your conversation with President Trump, in which you admonished him for his inflammatory characterization of the media as “fake news” and asserted that such polarizing language poses a threat not only to journalists but to American democracy itself.
You needn’t be a partisan — as I am not — to understand this nation’s 45th president as a dangerous demagogue, at once cartoonish and surrealistically sinister, reminiscent of both ...