Posted on 06/07/2020 1:43:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York Times editorial page director James Bennet resigned Sunday, the newspaper announced, following the newspaper’s decision to publish a controversial op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) that sparked backlash.
The Times said Bennet’s resignation is effective immediately. He had been in the position since May 2016.
Jim Dao, the deputy editorial page editor, is stepping off the masthead and will be reassigned to the newsroom, the Times said.
Katie Kingsbury, who joined the Times in 2017, will be named acting Editorial Page Editor through the November election.
“The journalism of Times Opinion has never mattered more than in this time of crisis at home and around the world, and I’ve been honored to be part of it,” Bennet said in a statement. “I’m so proud of the work my colleagues and I have done to focus attention on injustice and threats to freedom and to enrich debate about the right path forward by bringing new voices and ideas to Times readers.”
The newspaper’s announcement did not mention the controversy over the Cotton op-ed, titled "Send in the Troops." But Bennet's resignation comes after the publication of the op-ed, which called for the president to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to deploy the military to quell nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, sparked an internal revolt at the newspaper.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
No free speech for you!
The Pravda Times...
That sums up the problem quite nicely. They should stick to 'news' and quit trying to pontificate political morality. That's none of their business, that's for people to decide for themselves.
Cotton said in an interview that they should be adults and just report the news and not act like children working in a social justice office.
Insane.
Mustn’t upset the black people.
Journalism is dead.
They’re eating their own at a more rapid clip.
Unless it's the explicit goal of "journalism schools" to become social engineers rather than reporters.
A local news outlet boasts, "We change laws, we change lives." A far cry from "We report, you decide."
The specific goals of journalism schools is to create hordes of Leftist drones.
They’re currently working on their 3rd or 4th generation.
I think we are past the point of return. Way past fail safe.
First Amendment prevents media reform from without. It must occur, of at all, from within. Ethics and standards be damned long ago, if the ever really existed.
This is true across many industries. Medicine (cloning humans?), Business (spying for trade secrets), on and on.
“In response to the decision, Times staff editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss said the “civil war” at the newspaper “between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country.”
The Bolsheviks never appreciate the Mensheviks who put them in power. Ask Al Franken and Garrison Keillor, for instance, since this all originated in Minnesota.
***The Pravda Times...***
This brought to mind another incident years in which George Jessel referred to the NYT as “Pravda”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jessel_(actor)
“[1] His outspokenness regarding his political opinions sometimes caused a scandal.[9] In 1971, while being interviewed by Edwin Newman on The Today Show on NBC, he repeatedly referred to The New York Times as Pravda (the house organ of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union), and he was ejected from the show.[9]
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