James Bennet, a former New York Times editor, has publicly criticized the Times' handling of 'L'Affaire Cotton' and its commitment to liberalism. His Economist apology has sparked discussions on the Times' coverage of incipient fascism. The Times has been criticized for publishing an essay portraying Donald Trump as a moderate and for a conservative columnist's comparison of Trump supporters to slave owners. The controversy has sparked deep discussions and debates on the Times' editorial decisions and the portrayal of political figures.
David French wrote in the New York Times yesterday that "MAGA men and MAGA women" will be looked back on in history as worse people than slave owners. https://t.co/T8CLdrTBNO
David French wrote in the New York Times yesterday that "MAGA men and MAGA women" have less of an excuse for supporting Trump than people did for owning slaves and passing the Chinese exclusion act. https://t.co/vnPfAepQIN
This is what David French wrote in the New York Times yesterday: "One of the persistent debates in American life centers on how strictly we should judge the sins of our national past. Were those people who owned slaves or broke faith with Native Americans or passed the Chinese… https://t.co/aPfO0wH14X
NYT Columnist Says Trump Support Less Excusable Than Slavery. Read more: https://t.co/SPpN2X1Tpt The New York Times's so-called "conservative" columnist David French has claimed in a new opinion editorial that supp...
NYT Columnist Says Trump Support Less Excusable Than Slavery. Read more: https://t.co/4ZZMZqUJ8g The New York Times's so-called "conservative" columnist David French has claimed in a new opinion editorial that supp...
Today on The Powers That Be, @JonKelly2 and I go deeeeeep on the James Bennet revenge manifesto against The New York Times: https://t.co/N21qUEU1cj @PuckNews
The New York Times, an absolute tire fire of a newspaper, publishes a guest essay portraying Donald Trump as a moderate, written by a guy who is promoting the essay by saying it would be undemocratic to hold Trump legally accountable for his many crimes. https://t.co/AvkHs52DW0
This sentence, from James Bennet's Economist apology, explains exactly why the @nytimes has often failed to cover incipient fascism accurately: it always platforms powerful voices, simply because they're powerful, even when they're explicitly anti-democratic. 1/n https://t.co/gZ6sAfEsn5
I finally read this bloated apologia from James Bennet. It is a near-perfect expression of reactionary centrism -- all the instincts, tropes, & blind spots familiar to that ideology. Lord you could do a dozen dissertations just picking this apart. https://t.co/09UsXBNGV4
It’s a Timesian melodrama for the ages: James Bennet’s damning and extremely discursive indictment of his former employer, and his now-public battle with A.G. Sulzberger, over L’Affaire Cotton and the Times’ commitment to liberalism. From @DylanByers https://t.co/EY2cBc3i0d