The president complained about the Times' decision to alter a controversial headline on a story about his response to the weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio
The initial five-word headline, which was a banner first published Monday night describing a news story and a separate analysis piece, was quickly
by national Democrats and White House candidates as too conciliatory toward the president — whose divisive immigration rhetoric has been accused of playing a role in inciting the shooting Saturday morning in El Paso, Texas, that left 22 people dead.white supremacy, violent video games and the “dark recesses” of the internet, but retreated from a legislative proposal tying changes to background checks for firearm sales to immigration reform.
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said senior editors quickly recognized problems with the original headline Monday and rewrote it, and he insisted the adjustment was not a reaction to scolding from Democratic presidential candidates. “I don’t need the entire political field to tell me we wrote a bad headline. It was evident,” Baquet said in an interview Tuesday.
Trump is expected Wednesday to visit El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, where a gunman murdered nine people early Sunday morning before he was shot and killed by police.
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