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Yet other times, the paper platforms bad-faith arguments for conservative/Republican political projects that are designed to purposefully obscure reality from readers.

Yes, the paper will sometimes make dumbfounding decisions that cater to its progressive staff, as it did when it fired Bennet. The truth about the Times op-ed page is actually worse. How can you fire an editor for running an op-ed by a United States senator? ”īennet was an editor at the Atlantic who went to the NYT to run the paper’s op-ed page and was fired for running a piece by Tom Cotton that called for the use of the Insurrection Act.īennet’s experience is shorthand for liberal-echo-chamber, information-silo complaints: Look at the NYT-they are so militantly progressive that they refuse to engage with both sides. James Bennet has written a long piece for the Economist about “ When the New York Times Lost Its Way.