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In 2012 again the "public editor" of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, accused his employers of harboring progressive bias on topics like [[gay marriage]] and the [[occupy movement]].<ref>[https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/ny-times-public-editor-progressive-worldview-bleeds-133188.html]</ref> Its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has denied the papers extreme left bias, claiming instead that the paper has an "urban" viewpoint.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=</ref>
 
In 2012 again the "public editor" of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, accused his employers of harboring progressive bias on topics like [[gay marriage]] and the [[occupy movement]].<ref>[https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/ny-times-public-editor-progressive-worldview-bleeds-133188.html]</ref> Its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has denied the papers extreme left bias, claiming instead that the paper has an "urban" viewpoint.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=</ref>
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===Jeffrey Epstein===
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In August 2018, reporters at ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other publications received word Tesla founder [[Elon Musk]] was relying on Epstein to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive.  Editors at the ''Times'' sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein. "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart recently told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review.
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Stewart was not the editors' first choice to interview Epstein further.  Initially, they had asked Landon Thomas Jr., a veteran financial correspondent who had been at the ''Times'' for 16 years.  Thomas knew Epstein fairly well — having first written about him in 2002. For a 2008 profile, Thomas had traveled to Epstein's private isle in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  The article largely presented Epstein as someone who solicited prostitutes, not committed sex crimes against minors. Federal agents had by then identified several dozen possible victims. The piece ran just before Epstein submitted to authorities in Florida for incarceration.  It included this passage: "As his legal troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and tried to explain how his life had taken such a turn," Thomas wrote. "He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among the diminutive denizens of Lilliput."
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After Epstein's death the paper reported on a public apology by one of its corporate directors, Joichi Ito, who had landed millions of dollars from Epstein for the institute he leads, the MIT Media Lab. In a tweet, the paper's media editor, Jim Windolf, said that Ito had sought funds from Epstein "a few years after Epstein got out of the Palm Beach County Jail."<ref>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753390385/a-dead-cat-a-lawyers-call-and-a-5-figure-donation-how-media-fell-short-on-epstei</ref>
    
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