President Donald Trump used a quote from former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson to support yet another attack on the newspaper - but she wasn't having any of it.
Abramson, who took the helm of the Times in 2011 and was fired in 2014, criticizes the paper in her forthcoming book 'Merchant of Truth', writing that many of its news articles are 'unmistakably anti-Trump', according to excerpts published by Fox News.
Trump seized on those words in a tweet on Saturday, quoting the Fox headline: '"Former @NYTimes editor Jill Abramson rips paper’s 'unmistakably anti-Trump' bias."
'Ms. Abramson is 100% correct,' Trump wrote. 'Horrible and totally dishonest reporting on almost everything they write. Hence the term Fake News, Enemy of the People, and Opposition Party!'
Abramson hit back swiftly, replying: 'Anyone who reads my book, Merchants of Truth, will find I revere @nytimes and praise its tough coverage of you.'
President Donald Trump quoted former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson's criticism of the newspaper for being 'mistakenly anti-Trump' as he launched yet another attack on the publication - but Abramson (right) made it clear that they aren't on the same page
Trump tweeted a Fox News headline from earlier this week - when the outlet released excerpts from Abramson's forthcoming book - and ripped into the Times himself on Saturday
Abramson quickly retweeted the post with a comment distancing herself from Trump's words
Abramson's book, which will hit the shelves on February 5, is 'the definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade', according to publisher Simon and Schuster's website.
'With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution in technology, economics, standards, commitment, and endurance that pits old vs. new media.'
Abramson on Friday said that the reports about her criticism of the Times - where she worked for 17 years - were taken 'totally out of context'.
Abramson's book 'Merchant of Truth' is scheduled to be released on February 5
In the book she writes that the Times' slanted political coverage has grown its audience by leaps and bounds while damaging its credibility.
'Given its mostly liberal audience, there was an implicit financial reward for the Times in running lots of Trump stories, almost all of them negative: they drove big traffic numbers and, despite the blip of cancellations after the election, inflated subscription orders to levels no one anticipated,' Abramson writes.
But 'the more anti-Trump the Times was perceived to be, the more it was mistrusted for being biased.'
Abramson's ouster from the Times in 2014 followed a dispute with her eventual successor Dean Baquet over a high-level personnel decision that weakened his position.
Baquet, she now says, is presiding over an erosion of the Times' standards as America's most enduring newspaper brand embraces the label of an 'opposition party' arrayed against Republicans.
'Though Baquet said publicly he didn't want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump,' Abramson writes, lumping The Washington Post into the same category.
'Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis.'
Abramson worked at the Times for 17 years, taking over as executive editor in 2011 before being forced out by her successor in 2014. She is pictured right in the newsroom in 2013
Abramson is a strident liberal herself. She argued in February 2018 for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, claiming that he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his 1991 confirmation hearings about still-unproven sexual harassment allegations.
She calls Trump's 'fake news' rebranding a 'cheap way of trying to undermine the credibility of the Times’s reporting as something to be accepted as truth only by liberals in urban, cosmopolitan areas.'
Baquet, too, has said Trump’s attacks on the press corps are 'out of control.'
Abramson suggests in 'Merchants of Truth' that most of the Times' veterans tried to maintain their objectivity, but attributes some of the Times' leftward evolution to millennials on the paper's editorial staff.
'The more "woke" staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump’s presidency obviated the old standards,' she writes.
Trump commonly refers to the Manhattan institution as 'the failing New York Times' and classified it as a leader of the 'fake news' movement he loves to hate.
Still, the paper added 600,000 digital subscribers in the first six months of his presidency by aligning itself against the new administration, bringing that audience past the 2 million mark.
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Abramson, who took the helm of the Times in 2011 and was fired in 2014, criticizes the paper in her ...
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