On Sunday New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan took issue with the paper’s coverage of Amazon and Hachette’s ongoing terms dispute, opining that the paper (and primarily its Amazon beat reporter, David Streitfeld) “has given a lot of ink to one side” and painted Amazon as “a literature-killing bully.” Addressing one reader’s claims that the coverage amounted to “propaganda,” Sullivan said: “‘Propaganda’ is a stretch, and Mr. Streitfeld has done plenty of solid work. But it’s certainly true that the literary establishment has received a great deal of sympathetic coverage.” Streitfeld and his editor Suzanne Spector told Sullivan they “strived […]
