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Well the Tom Cotton op ed drama was literally this.
by ReptileMan 6y ago
Well the Tom Cotton op ed drama was literally this.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoTom Cotton is a sitting US Senator. Denying him op–ed space is in no way tantamount to "silencing" him.
- jeffbee 6y agoAlso they didn't deny him anything. His idiotic vomit ran above the fold online. The Times admitted the opinion editor didn't even read the piece, they just ran it automatically out of deference to the senator.
- PhineasRex 6y agoAlso worth noting that Bennett actually reached out to Cotton to write the piece
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoAnd Bennett lost his position because of it.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agobecause of the article? Or because the entire process for handling it failed to meet NYT process standards for op-eds, and because Bennett himself was at best misleading and at worse lying about his own role and behavior in that process?
- ponker 6y agoThere are 100 Senators, chosen by the same types of processes that put Donald Trump in the White House, why is being a Senator an automatic qualification for publishing in the NYT? Such a famous newspaper should be more exclusive than that.
- krrrh 6y agoNeither was publishing it an endorsement. Nor was it an endorsement when they published an editorial from an ISIS leader or going back some ways, Hitler. It’s important to know what politicians think. He could have easily Had it published in the Federalist or Breitbart, but the average nytimes reader would never have had the opportunity to read it. Filter bubbles are a big problem, and getting Cotton on record in the paper of record is a valuable service.
- ReptileMan 6y agoThe editor was fired