Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sought to inspect records from The New York Times on Aug. 10, claiming the newspaper’s pattern of admitted mistakes covering the Israel-Hamas war threatens the state’s pension fund.
Uthmeier, representing the pension fund and the thousands of shares it holds in company, sent a 28-page letter to The New York Times seeking to scrutinize six years’ worth of internal records, board documents, and meeting minutes, dating back to January 2020, and asking the company to prove it was operating smoothly.
“The Times tells investors that its brand and reputation are its most important assets and that if people see its journalism as unreliable or biased, the company can be hurt,” Uthmeier said in a video on X. “We want to exercise our rights under New York law to review the company’s internal board documents, meeting minutes, reports, and other materials, to see what the directors know….
Florida Seeks NY Times Internal Documents Over Errors in Israel-Hamas War Coverage
