NY Times editorial page editor resigns amid fury over op-ed

[Eugene]

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Source: Associated Press

NY Times editorial page editor resigns amid fury over op-ed

7 June 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times’ editorial page editor has resigned amid outrage over an op-ed by a Republican senator who advocated using federal troops to quell protests — outrage that only grew when it was revealed the editor had not read the piece before publication.

The paper announced Sunday that James Bennet, who had overseen the Times’ opinion pages since 2016, had stepped down effective immediately.

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed, titled “Send in the Troops” and first posted online late Wednesday, caused a revolt among Times journalists, with some saying it endangered black employees. Some staff members called in sick Thursday in protest and the Times said a review found that the piece did not meet its standards.

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In the wake of Cotton’s op-ed, the Times announced several changes, including expanding its fact-checking operation and reducing the number of op-eds, which are opinion pieces written by outside contributors that it publishes.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/90fecc109c4c8bc2fa69021cfa6113cd

[msongs]

1. he may just have moved to a different job at the paper so not really a big deal nt

[Budi]

5. Probably moved him to oversee the new fact-checking operation

🙄

[jrthin]

11. LOL

[dem4decades]

2. Fuck the Times, I'm a Post guy now. Dropped the Times a while ago.

[pwb]

6. The post is a Murdoch rag.

You think that is better?

[dem4decades]

12. The Washington Post

[WePurrsevere]

7. I dropped the Times and switched to WaPo as well.

I don't know what's gotten into the Times but they need to get their sh'tuff together.

[mr_lebowski]

3. I guess ...

[Pantagruel]

4. "editor had not read the piece before publication."

There's your problem right there.

[pwb]

8. It did make republicans look very stupid.

They don't know that American troops can never be used in the 50 states against any American. That is what the national guard is for.

It is in the constitution so they wouldn't know.

There is a reason Tom Cotton left the service. This is it.

[catrose]

16. Tom Cotton was laughing at how he owned the libs, getting the nyt to print his editorial

So I guess both sides feel like they won.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He didn't fucking *read* it?

He deserved to be sacked just for that.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Tom Cotton, the writer of this editorial, needs to be elected out of office. He's the one that...

wrote the damn thing advocating violence against our own citizens to quell their protests. A first amendment right. No wonder so many journalists revolted and called in sick. I'm sick that there is a US Senator advocating violence against his own citizens, which in my opinion, would have resulted in inflaming the situation further than calming nerves down, etc. Idiot. Cotton just proved that he's fully incapable of governing by the Constitution and its amendments.

These scumbags such as Barr and rump are stating that protests are violent, when in fact, the vast majority of them aren't. Look at the evidence when rump had the church area cleared out violently, prior to his 'bible act', when in fact, the protesters were peaceful (and I bet there was tons of evidence to prove that they were peaceful).

[sinkingfeeling]

14. He's unopposed.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Now only if Cotton had the decency to resign as well.

[awesomerwb1]

15. Cotton will be the "next hope"

of the republican party (what's left of it). Like Lil Marco once was.