Response from NYT journalists on two complaints about Iran coverage

The New York Times is more influential and dominant than ever. After the diminishment of CBS News and The Washington Post, the threats to CNN, the precipitous decline of regional newspapers, the ever-stronger Times seems too big to fail.

But surely, not too big to criticize.

Given that the Times no longer has a public editor (the role of reader representative and internal critic that I held for four years until 2016), I appreciate it when journalists there respond to criticism, whether from me or from other observers.

Here are two examples, and you, readers, can decide about the responses and the thinking behind them.

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