According to The Daily Beast, a New York Times reporter deleted a LinkedIn post calling for “truly radical” climate action after colleagues complained that it potentially violated the paper's ethics policy. It is said that he did.
NYT climate correspondent David Gelles posted the offending post after the recently concluded World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, attended by many business, political and media elites from around the world. I wrote it. according to For The Daily Beast. Mr. Gelles later resigned from his post after several of his colleagues at the New York Times complained that his comments might amount to political advocacy rather than objective reporting. (Related: New York Times confirms authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop)
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“After a year in which climate change has ravaged every corner of the planet and resulted in the hottest year on record, I call on a room full of CEOs, diplomats, and NGO leaders to increase the urgency and do something truly drastic. I beg you to start considering political and economic intervention,” Gelles wrote in the post, which she also shared on her Instagram profile. according to to the New York Post. Mr. Gelles also said that it is “a time to start imagining what a truly transformed society would look like” and that “it is time to start imagining what a truly transformed society would look like,” adding that “it is time to start imagining what a truly transformed society would look like,” adding that “it is time to start imagining what a truly transformed society would look like,” adding that “it is time to start imagining what a truly transformed society would look like,” adding that “it is time to start imagining what a truly transformed society would look like,” adding that “it is time to start imagining what a truly transformed society would look like,” adding that “there are times when disrupting the status quo is uneconomic, impractical, or politically untenable.” It's time to start identifying the hurdles that make you think you don't exist.”
“It's too late and it's incumbent on those with the money and influence to start putting all their resources towards the climate crisis,” Gelles added in the post.
Gelles' post on climate policy is the latest example of NYT staff pushing the boundaries between objective reporting and overt political advocacy.
In the first half of 2023, internal conflict within the station escalated after 200 staff members wrote an open letter criticizing the NYT's sometimes critical coverage of young people's gender transitions and transitions. Many other staffers, including some of the news organization's most prominent reporters, defended the NYT's reporting on that particular issue.
A NYT spokesperson said: “David's reporting approach has always been fair, unflinching and incisive, as he has produced some of the Times' most important and wide-ranging journalism on politics and the global impact of climate change. '' he told the New York Post. . “He brought the same spirit to his role speaking at the World Economic Forum event, but his subsequent social media posts about the event could have been misinterpreted as conveying anything other than impartiality, and his subsequent Deleted.”
The NYT did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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