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I think as shown by similar scandals at NYT and WSJ, that the media press do not accept feedback, and instead will rally around extending and furthering their
by InTheArena 2y ago
I think as shown by similar scandals at NYT and WSJ, that the media press do not accept feedback, and instead will rally around extending and furthering their ideological anti-liberal (authoritarian) monoculture, and instead get rid of dissenting voices.
see James Bennet at NYT (who was fired for publishing a op-ed from a sitting American senator) or even Kevin D. Williamson at the Athletic.
- dekhn 2y agoI can't see why everybody got so worked up about the op-ed you're referring to. The Times has traditionally been a venue for voices that are not in its constituency, and in this particular case, Cotton wrote such a crazy article that it reduced his credibility significantly in front of the nation. He proposed using the military to quell protests, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...
- eej71 2y agoThe Atlantic ran an interesting piece about the details of how that op-ed came together. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton-new-york-times/677546/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton...
- dekhn 2y agoI think if all op-eds published in the Times were inspected for factual accuracies, they'd find plenty in the ones that align with the Times's employees (the Cotton op-ed has a long preface which basically says "we shouldn't have published this because facts")
- faeriechangling 2y agoNever look NPR or NYT to have an anti-liberal monoculture, I thought they were mostly liberal.
- InTheArena 2y agoliberal as in leftist, yes. liberal as in anti-authoritarian, pluralistic, pro-democracy and freedom of speech? Not so much anymore.