This is a really hard story, newsrooms haven’t confronted one like this since the 1960s. We had a couple of significant missteps, and I know you’re concerned about them, and I am, too.īut there’s something larger at play here. From Slate, a transcription of an internal meeting at the New York Times between top editor Dean Baquet and disgruntled New York Times staffers complaining that the New York Times doesn’t call Trump racist often enough.ĭean Baquet: If we’re really going to be a transparent newsroom that debates these issues among ourselves and not on Twitter, I figured I should talk to the whole newsroom, and hear from the whole newsroom.