Too late. It’s already been printed. The fact that it shouldn’t have been is irrelevant.
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God: "Missed by THAT much!
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NYT no longer provides oversight over its opinion pages; Of course no one bothered to read this bullshit before it was published.
Even the headlines above news articles ( rarely matching the article) aren’t vetted; they’re churned out by a stable of Copy Editors based in Florida; I get job postings for NYT Copy Editors in my Linkedin Inbox regularly.
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NYTimes in another CYA moment…
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How could they know it didn’t meet their standards when Bennet didn’t even read it?!
He’s obviously overpaid for the job he’s doing. 
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So, after admitting this, did they yank it??
Methinks, no.
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If the editor didn’t even read the piece before publishing, then what exactly is their job?
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Screwing up the articles written by the paid staff.
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Jumbo shrimp. Clean coal. Senator Cotton.
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I am actually happy that the NYT published Cotton OP-Ed. Cotton basically is calling for the deployment of active-duty troops against the civilian population of cities in blues states against the consent of the state and local authorities. The most important thing from me is the lack of reaction from “conservative” circles. Even the “libertarians” are fine with. Cotton is probably see a huge surge in popularity, because at the end he is advocating war against blue states and cities, and that is what red state residents want. The riots and the “antifa terrorist” is only a excuse.
I think this country is fractured beyond repair and the best thing to do is to break it up.
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I agree.
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Er … well … that may not be quite sufficient, either!
As for this (as conveyed by TPM):
“This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards.” … James Bennet, the [opinion] editor [says] he hadn’t even read Cotton’s op-ed prior to publication.
Does the Times have an ear it can blow this out of?
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Journalistic integrity and pandering for clicks don’t mix.
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Even doing that, they could have published an opposing view at the same time.
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Cotton delighted in the Times’ fiasco, tweeting he was “enjoying the @nytimes meltdown” and responding with a laughing emoji in response to a Slate report that his essay had caused the highest number of subscription cancels to the Times in a single hour.
Tom Cotton is dunking on you, morons.
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That’s what they said about Judith Millers bullshit that occupied A1 above the fold for 6 months. One of their top guys recently said “perhaps we over-hyped HRC’s emails”. Did they ever apologize for Whitewater?
I quit reading the rag long ago.
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Look, I totally understand that working in a newsroom on an insanely tight deadline can lead to mistakes. My first “real” job in my early 20s was working in the newsroom of a small local paper, and that could get nuts on any given night. I can only imagine that working for the New York Times is 1000x more nuts on a slow day than my old newsroom was on our craziest day.
BUT…
This wasn’t an “oh gee wiz, the editorial page editor was so busy he never even read Tom Cotton’s article!” error. No. The error was in assuming any article written by Tom Cotton, whom I assume can only get aroused whilst emptying the clip of a semi-automatic rifle into the air, would meet your “editorial standards.”
I can forgive mistakes in journalism, but bad editorial policy is harder to forgive. Especially when that policy is to knowingly give a platform to people with a hard-on for fascism.
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Folks let’s remember what the standards are at the New York Times!
- They hate Bill Clinton
- They especially hate Hillary Clinton
- They lied any lie about Al Gore to put Dumbya in the Presidency
- They lie any lie given to them by Republicans to start a war…that killed my son…
- They will endlessly suck up to Trump
- Their “Gold Standard” for Op-Eds is Maureen Dowd.
- No matter what evil Republicans commit, “Both Sides Do It”.
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Meanwhile, Cotton who wrote the damn thing, delights in the Times’ meltdown. Here’s a clue NY Times: people like him are not your friends. Publishing stuff like this will not win you new readers interested in honest factual reporting. You just got trolled.
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If they could even imagine such a move, they wouldn’t be making the mistakes they’ve been making since at least the end of WWII.
Obviously I’m not saying their reporting and editorials are uniformly bad – only that the good stuff is often produced despite their “system.”
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