Wednesday, July 15, 2020

‘Intellectual Curiosity … Is Now A Liability’: Bari Weiss Writes Scathing Resignation Letter From The NYT Amid Its Woke ‘Civil War’

Daily Caller  . . . "The former NYT writer brought up Cotton’s op-ed in her resignation letter, pointing out that “op-eds that would have easily been published just two years ago would now get an editor or a writer in serious trouble, if not fired.”
"She also noted that “Twitter is not on the masthead of” the NYT, but said she feels it “has become its ultimate editor.”
“ 'As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space,” according to Weiss. “Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions… What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity.”
"Weiss wrote that she still feels that many at the publication don’t agree with views the NYT is pushing, but have been “cowed by those who do.' ” 
“The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people,” according to Weiss. “This is a galaxy in which, to choose just a few recent examples, the Soviet space program is lauded for its ‘diversity’; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.”
“America is a great country that deserves a great newspaper.”

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