NYT Publisher Writes To Those Who Ditched Subscriptions Over Bret Stephens

WASHINGTON — In an effort to win back their support, the publisher of The New York Times sent a “personal note” to readers who canceled subscriptions over the publication’s hiring of Bret Stephens, a former opinion writer at The Wall Street Journal and a denier of mainstream climate science. 
In an email that went out Friday afternoon, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said he wanted to “provide a bit more context” about the Times’ decision to hire Stephens. The email, first reported on by Politico and later sent to HuffPost by a former subscriber, appears to have gone out to all those who cited Stephens in their decision to cancel.
“First, it’s worth underscoring that The Times’s newsroom, which functions separately from our Opinion department and is led by executive editor Dean Baquet, has sharply expanded the team of reporters and editors who cover climate change,” Sulzberger wrote. “No subject is more vital.”
Sulzberger goes on to provide a number of examples of the newspaper’s climate coverage ― journalism, he said, that is “unrivaled in its sophistication and imagination.”
The Times hired Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist who identifies as a “climate agnostic,” last month — a move many argued conflicts with its mission of publishing the truth. Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, laun...

Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 13, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news