WashPost's Margaret Sullivan Hopes Incoming New York Times Editor Shreds Objectivity

Many liberals who call themselves journalists, inspired by Harvard’s Nieman Lab, are now publicly calling for ditching objectivity in their profession in favor of what they call “solidarity for social justice” as their goal. Not only are many making no attempt to hide their disdain for objectivity, they are loudly urging it. Among them is Washington Post Margaret Sullivan who is not shy about expressing her extreme antipathy towards political diversity.

Therefore when she wrote on Saturday that the New York Times managing editor, Joe Kahn, would succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor of that alleged national treasure in June, her top concern was whether he would allow diversity of opinion in “Joe Kahn can be a great New York Times editor.”