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