Remember, this is the paper that has chased nothingburgers on the Clintons for decades. It does not surprise me that whatever standards are in place get routinely broken.
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I lived elsewhere during most of his reign, but wasn’t the NYT very pro-Bloomberg, which fits with its centrist and in some ways center-right stance, which only seems liberal when compared to the WSJ and NY Post and because their headlines don’t scream?
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Forget it, @ronbyers, it’s the NYT.
Everyone is “grateful for his contributions.”
Which is understood to mean:
“If I were to say anything more openly critical, it could lead to an awkward moment the next time I bump into him and Sarah at Masa.”
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This.
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And they don’t lynch POC in “liberal” NYC? Happens all the time, only they usually get the police to do it. Plus the non-lethal version of lynching in the way cops treat young POC here, in large part to make closeted fascists like Bennet and Central Park dog lady feel safe.
I’d like a list of all the other op-ed pieces he printed without reading them first.
“All of them, Katie.”
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Lets say they do it everyday at the noon hour. How does that change who and what Cotton is? Whataboutisms don’t belong here.
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I don’t mean to defend the editor, however, think about where we are now. The idea that an Op-ed by an influential senator is not fit to print in the NYT is pretty amazing in itself.
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Why are you obsessed with Cotton? Bloomberg ordered similar tactics during OWS protests, by NYPD paramilitaries. He’s just more out with his fascism than Bloomberg, kind of a country cousin. You’re making a mistake in trying to isolate the fascist strain in US politics to rural and red America.
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Could not agree more.
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The only meaningful difference between many NY Post and NY Times readers is that the latter tend to have better educations and be more socially refined and sophisticated. But the same vile prejudices and human tendencies exist in both in similar degrees. Every now and then the veil is dropped.
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On a related note, it is slightly less than one Friedman Unit to Donnie’s Day of Defeat.
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Swabs are us, the imbecile continues
Ed. I don’t know who the guy is on the left of the photo, but look at his eyes, he is laughing.
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No. No more terrible Republican presidents ever!
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Mother said it was OK and promised me milk, cookies and the “good stuff”.
They weren’t punked. Bennett solicited the piece.
Earlier, he published Cotton’s arguments, such as they were, in favor of buying Greenland. Given that Greenland was not available for purchase, running that piece was about as useful as running one on how to speak Martian.
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I suspect that your action, and the same from many, many others is the real reason by far for Bennett’s firing. All of the bullshit about offering opposing viewpoints and journalistic integrity and editorial breakdown is just smokescreen. Newspapers are struggling to retain readership and anything that diminishes that will get a reaction. If they had instead gained readership from the budding fascists who were thrilled to see Cotton’s editorial, we know how they would have handled it.
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Well…CNN new poll today has him dropping seven points – under 40 now at 38% approval. I dearly love imagining what his internal polling has been saying.
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