
Jill Abramson: NYT Publisher Drafted Letter Apologizing to China for Damning Report
via www.breitbart.com
A panicked Sulzberger flew to China to convince its government to unblock the paper's site, but officials were unmoved by the publisher's in-person plea.
The 2012 report, titled "Princelings' in China Use Family Ties to Gain Riches", eventually won a Then Abramson claims that, "without her knowledge," the publisher drafted a letter with input from the Chinese embassy "all but apologizing" for the original story. She brought the draft to a tense meeting with Sulzberger at a nearby Starbucks. When she showed him the letter, he "seemed startled that I had it and he kept saying, 'I didn't do anything wrong.' He tried to slip the letter into his folder, but I snatched it back," she writes.