Letter to the Executive Editor

Dear Executive Editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet--

Your newspaper was delivered to my front door this morning, a wolf in sheep's clothing when I really thought of you as my friend. 

And then upon reading the interview you granted in the publication for which you serve as Executive Editor (The New York Times, A2, 'Takeaways From the 2016 Election') my flesh starts to crawling, though I must admit I have to laugh along with you as I read, I who have always taken journalism so seriously. 

You were 'questioned' by those you employ, under the presmption of full disclosure the reader is to suppose, about the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in 2016, without copping to the fact that while your newspaper's coverage made no difference in the election of Donald Trump it made a great deal of difference in the 'defeat' of Bernie Sanders and the elevation of Hillary Clinton as the Dem Party candidate for President.

Your conflation of the "rise of Bernie Sanders" with" the rise of Donald Trump" is also of note.

Is there no longer journalism in the NYT, or is journalism now just pretending to be journalism, the 'writing', such as it is, difficult to take hold of, written as it is under the folkloric fiction that real power is being leavened with objectivity, and in complete corporate denial mode that the record profits big media now enjoys has absolutely no influence on the reporting. Is there one 'l' in Hiillary or two? 

After reading the interview several times I'm still not sure what you've said Dean Baquet, and I don't have time to read it a third, having read it enough to know it's lazy, self-serving, platitudinous. It appears that cliches are keeping the world afloat, the beautiful language of frivolity as spoken on cruise ships in which we follow the sun, passengers who insist on being amused twenty-four hours a day.