James Bennet, the editorial page editor at the New York Times, resigned on Sunday night amid backlash over the paper’s decision to publish Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) op-ed that called for militaristic force against the protests over police brutality rippling across the country.
Cotton is definitely next up on the list for terrible republican presidents
May even be co-front runner with Nikki Haley for 2024. That should be interesting…
Of course the key is the sentence that the editor did not even read the submission - absolutely falling down on his job.
And in a totally unrelated development, Bennet was just announced as Cotton’s new incoming press secretary and chair of his 2024 exploratory presidential campaign committee…
I’d like a list of all the other op-ed pieces he printed without reading them first.
I know it wouldn’t be a short list, but I’d look at it regardless.
Good. However the Times is a false liberal rag, that has always boosted right wingers giving them legitimacy, most often when it comes to making the case for a war or for capital over labor. The paper is obviously center right, don’t let the occasional “Hey wait a sec guys, is this really a good idea?” op-ed by Paul Krugman fool you.
OT. So, shitgibbon goes to a swab plant, refuses to wear a mask, contaminates all swabs manufactured that day have to be thrown out, calls our Governor a dictator, then saunters off. Those swabs may have saved lives by early detection.
ho gives a shit. The NYT got punked by Cotton and deserve whatever they get. NO ONE could read that screed they published and think it suitable for publication by any media…the NYT or Mad Magazine. Someone was looking appease the right when they opted to ink it. Pay for it assholes.
This is it for me. It the “not reading it” part
If he read it, and made the decision to publish then I would still disagree with his decision to publish, but not feel he would need to resign.
Look, everyone on TPM already knew Cotton was a Fascist, now a whole lot more people know.
I cancelled my subscription the day it came out and made sure to explain very clearly why I was cancelling to the woman who took my call. Voting with dollars. It matters.
An editor who doesn’t read the pieces he publishes should be fired. Resigning isn’t good enough.
My thoughts exactly! Just emblematic of NYTimes failure to find their spine.
What I find surprising is that he apparently told someone he hadn’t read it.
Once it was known – that he had said so – his resignation was predictable.
So how did it become known? Did someone speak about it because they thought it would provide a mitigating factor?
True but Cotton gets elected in Arkansas where where dissing the NYT is a the stuff of heroes. He’s already joking about how successful he was on Twitter. If we want Cotton gone handing him a victory like this is not the way. Everyone involved in it should be gone.
Must appease fascists, so they don’t hurt me and maybe even like me…
He is Senator Michael Bennet’s brother.
Then again there’s Frankfurter’s famous dictum about sunlight–now in new and improved injectable form for internal use only!
Jeebus, what a putz.
Caption of taken aback guy behind him:
My god, he really is an imbecile, like on TV!
