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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
You keep focusing on the writer. She isn't the story. Nothing particularly bad happened to her, outside of having to experience some workplace bullying.
If you see no problem with an internal culture within news organizations that systematically eliminates dissent, treats disagreement with a very narrow conception of what is moral and right for society as intolerable and literally dangerous to other peoples' safety, and the transformation from a battleground of ideas into what was aptly described as an ideological warm bath for the people the Times imagines its readers to be, I'm not sure how else to explain it to you.
This quote from the letter says more or less everything:
These people are not journalists. They are preachers. And because the larger news corporations have systematically gobbled up local newspapers and news stations, there is an even smaller array of voices that the average person can hear now than there ever has been. But don't worry, as mentioned above, you can just pick the one that serves as an ideological warm bath for the sorts of people who believe what you also believe, and never have to think critically about anything. Apparently, we've reached a point where the outlets have decided that that's actually what they're supposed to be providing.
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I really think the whole thing is a false narrative. The New York Times still employs all kinds of op-ed writers. Maybe the other writers don't agree with her opinions, but welcome to life as an opinion columnist.
Don't get the bolded comment considering there are tons of news organizations out there that don't even pretend to not be tilted one way or the other.