There's no more exemplary sign of the death-of-the-news-as-we-once-knew-it than the public unraveling of the New York Times, once perhaps of the most well-respected news organizations on the planet.
I can't help but think that the angst-filled newsroom at the New York Times might not have to expend so much effort dodging flak if management had allowed the paper's public editor to do her job.
The public editor was the internal ombudsman assigned "To help keep the Times and its coverage honest in an increasingly commercialized and politicized news environment." This was the person assigned to address major public criticism and, to some degree, inoculate the newsroom from having to get mired so deeply in controversies over its coverage.
The position of public editor at the Times was first created after the Jayson Blair scandal.
In May 2017, Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., suddenly eliminated the job of public editor.
Does the New York Times have any credibility as a truthful news source?
Then New York Times employees pen a letter to Times management demanding the newspaper publish a refutation of Cotton's position.
https://www.wnd.com/2020/11/sharyl-attkisson-public-unraveling-n-y-times-explained/
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