Why I’m cancelling my subscription after 10 years as a subscriber

Dear Arthur (AG) Sulzberger,

You may not remember me, but we were in the same class in college, and we have friends in common.

I have been a subscriber to The New York Times for 10 years. I grew up in Los Angeles, but my parents were devoted NYT readers; they have each subscribed to both the NYT and LA Times for as long as I can remember-I’m 36 now-and they still do.

During the 2015–2016 election season, I was concerned about the quality (or lack thereof) of coverage the NYT was giving to the grave risks Donald Trump posed to our democracy. Throughout it all, I continued subscribing.

Then, about six months ago, some friends and I began a deep dive into your “star reporter,” “Trump Whisperer” Maggie Haberman. We grew increasingly concerned about her lack of journalistic objectivity and her familial/financial conflicts of interest with the Trump and Kushner families.

We put our greatest effort into researching and writing our latest article, Maggie Duranty. What we found shook us to the core.

Though we are not professional journalists, the three of us are professionals with expertise in other areas. We spent a year researching Donald Trump’s mafia ties. Much of what we found and wrote about in our first article, Poke The Bear, came from THE ARCHIVES OF THE NEW YORK TIMES. Yet during the election season, your paper never reported on Trump’s mob history. And now, with Dianne Feinstein’s release of the Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS’s Senate Interview Transcript, the whole world will know about Trump’s mob ties. Which you, effectively, hid by not reporting. And which you are STILL HIDING.

Your paper is repeating its gravest mistake from the 20th century. Your “star reporter’s” puff-piece coverage of Trump means you are enabling a would-be dictator. Your lack of reporting on Trump-linked Russian mafia figures Sater and Mogilevich, both mentioned BY NAME in the Simpson testimony is you effectively running interference for transnational organized crime.