EXCLUSIVE: Former New York Times correspondent claims the paper s biased coverage of Trump was a clear display of arrogance and self-absorption from journalists who couldn t stand being challenged by the president in blistering memoir
Robert M. Smith slammed the NYT s anti-Trump bias in Suppressed: Confessions of a Former New York Times Washington Correspondent, released May 14
Smith, who left the paper in 1972, said Times journalists launched a crusade against Trump because they hated being challenged by the former president
Reporters had a duty to rise above criticism and not engage in spasms of adolescent pouting and lashing out, Smith writes