The New York Times spent years telling investors its brand and reputation were its most valuable assets.
Now Florida wants to see exactly how that brand was managed.
Florida AG James Uthmeier just took the Times to court for stonewalling four months of requests for internal documents showing what the board knew about 72 admitted pro-Hamas corrections.
The Times Admitted 72 Errors – All Favoring Hamas
Between October 7, 2023, and June 2024, the Times corrected 72 errors in its Israel-Hamas coverage.
Not random errors spread across topics.
Seventy-two corrections in one coverage area in eight months – and most of them ran pro-Hamas.
One October 17, 2023, headline blamed a deadly explosion on an Israeli strike based entirely on a Hamas claim.
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Six days later, the Times published an editor's note admitting the coverage "relied too heavily on claims by Hamas."
That's the paper of record – caught running Hamas propaganda, then burying the correction six days later.
A September 15 article called Sharif Labad a "Civil Defense rescue service worker" while ignoring that the IDF had identified him as a Hamas Nukhba force member – one of the terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7.
That story was never updated.
The same day, a Times caption misstated bomb weights by a factor of twenty – writing 40,000 pounds when the weapons weighed 2,000 pounds.
The Times was also forced to retract language suggesting the deaths of 1,200 Israelis and the taking of 250 hostages were merely a matter of "perception."
Florida Manages 1.2 Million Retirees Who Deserve Better
Florida's State Board of Administration holds 160,000 shares of New York Times stock – managing retirement funds for over 1.2 million state employees.
Uthmeier isn't just the AG.
He's a trustee whose job is protecting those investments.
The Times told its own investors – in SEC filings – that its brand and reputation are its most important assets, and that "perception of unreliable or biased journalism" is a material risk to those assets.
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Then it refused to produce the internal board documents showing what directors knew and when.
"As investors, we have a legal right to these corporate governance documents, so we ask for them," Uthmeier said. "We didn't get any."
So he filed suit.
A whistleblower who worked inside the Times – a Jewish former employee who raised antisemitism concerns more than a dozen times between 2019 and 2026 – is now prepared to testify about how the paper "manufactures the news when Jews or Israel are involved."
That's not a critic on the outside.
That's someone who sat in the meetings.
The Left Used This Same Weapon Against Fox News
Here's what the Left doesn't want you to notice.
This exact legal mechanism – shareholders using corporate governance law to demand accountability for editorial failures – is the same weapon the left deployed against Fox News after the Dominion settlement.
New York City pension funds and Oregon's AG sued Fox Corporation in 2023 arguing the board failed shareholders by letting false election coverage generate defamation liability.
The Left cheered that lawsuit.
Now Florida is using the same legal theory and the same shareholder standing – applied to the Times' Hamas coverage – and suddenly corporate accountability is a threat to press freedom.
The Times responded by citing the First Amendment.
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The First Amendment protects what a newspaper publishes.
It does not protect a publicly traded company's board from its own shareholders, and Uthmeier knows it.
The Times Built Its Own Trap
Israel's UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan formally accused the Times of running "libelous narratives" that were "actively contributing to the growing hatred" of Jews worldwide – and sent that charge directly to the paper's executive editor in writing.
The Times dismissed it.
Now Florida has them in court demanding the documents they promised investors they were entitled to receive.
Uthmeier's argument is straightforward: a company can have a bias or an agenda.
But when you're publicly traded, you disclose it.
The Times sold investors on neutrality, reported as a Hamas mouthpiece, and then stonewalled the shareholders who noticed.
That's not a journalism problem.
That's a securities problem.
Sources:
- Hannah Knudsen, "Florida AG James Uthmeier Sues The New York Times for Biased Anti-Israel News Coverage," Breitbart News, September 23, 2026.
- "Florida AG seeks years' worth of New York Times records, cites shareholder impact," TNND/Fox affiliates, September 2026.
- "Florida AG demands access to New York Times internal documents amid biased coverage report," KATU, September 2026.
- "Prospective Lawsuit Could Provide New Avenue for Accountability at the Times," Washington Free Beacon, September 2026.
- "New York City's pension funds and state of Oregon sue Fox Corporation over 2020 election lies," ABC News, 2023.
- Gilad Erdan, letter to New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn, Israel Mission to the United Nations, 2023.
