UPDATE - a reader commented with what actually happened. More complex than the Reuters report.
Two weeks ago, President Trump asked Federal Agencies to drop their New York Times subscriptions (and The Washington Post). Now a library in Florida is doing the same - from Reuters:
Florida county to revisit rejection of digital New York Times for libraries
Responding to a public furor, a Florida county board on Tuesday said it would revisit its decision to reject its library system’s request for a digital subscription to the New York Times, whose reporting one member had called “fake news.”
The Oct. 24 decision by the Citrus County commissioners drew sharp opposition as well as national attention when it came to light in a local report late last week.
“One of the most, if not the most, disappointing aspects of all of this has been the vitriol that has come about so quickly,” said Jeff Kinnar, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. “I have gotten more foul language in my emails in the last 48 hours than I have gotten in the past three years.”
Of course the deep state apparatchiks respond with venom when the sacred narrative is being questioned.
The libraries are not dropping their NYT subscriptions (4 total for for branches, each about $2/day). They wanted to spend $8000 on a contract in addition to those subscriptions for an online-subscription deal that would allow county residents free access to NYT's online "Digital Access". This would be the first online newspaper subscription contract for the library system, and the commission did not approve the expenditure.