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The New York Times changed a sub-headline on Tuesday after liberal readers complained that the paper referred to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner as “refugees,” as woke critics feel the Trump administration “all but criminalized being a refugee” so the term shouldn’t be used to describe the first family.
A story headlined, “As Their D.C. Days Dwindle, Ivanka and Jared Look for a New Beginning,” originally featured the term in the subhead.
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White House senior advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner wait to depart for President Trump's campaign travel to Pennsylvania from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 22, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
“The end of President Trump’s time in office leaves his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as well-to-do refugees — but they appear to have plans in New Jersey,” the Times wrote.
Former New York Times reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis noticed her previous employer’s article and took to Twitter to complain.
“I have a lots of thoughts about this story but using the word ‘refugee’ in the dek when they were part of an administration that all but criminalized being a refugee... is a choice,” Pierre-Louis wrote, using the industry term “dek” to describe the copy underneath the main headline.
Others piled on, condemning the paper for referring to President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law as refugees, often blasting the administration’s immigration policies in the process.
“This entire article is a white-washing of Kushner/Ivanka's culpability in this administration,” one person responded, while another wrote: “Sanitizing monsters is not an honorable profession.”
The article was eventually changed, with the new subhead being simply, “The end of President Trump’s time in office leaves his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, looking for a new home — but they appear to have plans in New Jersey.”
The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is hardly the first time that the liberal paper has caved to social media pressure. Former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss even wrote in her scathing resignation letter in July that Twitter was becoming the "ultimate editor" of the paper.
Weiss wrote that “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times,” but social media acts as the ultimate editor.
“As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history,” Weiss wrote. “Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
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Earlier this year the Times published an op-ed written by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., that sparked a major backlash from its own staff. At the time, Weiss claimed that a "civil war" was brewing within the paper.
Editorial Page Editor James Bennet eventually stepped down after the Cotton op-ed sparked a revolt among Times journalists.
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