After coming under fire for its muted response to a serious rape allegation against President Trump, the New York Times has acknowledged it was “overly cautious” in its coverage
E. Jean Carroll. Photo: The Washington Post/The Washington Post/Getty Images .
Last Friday, the writer E. Jean Carroll came forward with allegations against Donald Trump, claiming he had sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
The Times in particular faced an onslaught of criticism — for omitting the story from its home page, waiting two days to run a piece in print about the allegations, and publishing the story in its Books section. On Monday, executive editor Dean Baquet attempted to take responsibility for the paper’s mishandling of the accusation in a report published by the Reader Center, the Times’ initiative to connect the paper to its readers.
Per the report, Times editors initially had issues with Carroll’s lack of sources who were willing to go on the record to corroborate her allegations. . “We were playing by rules that didn’t quite apply,” Baquet said. “They’ve allowed us to break major stories, from Bill O’Reilly to Harvey Weinstein. But in this case, it was a different kind of story.”
In retrospect, Baquet says he wishes the Times would have displayed the story more prominently. Ultimately, he concluded, “We were overly cautious.”
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