James Bennet, now a columnist at The Economist, excoriated his former employer, The New York Times, in a damning tell-all about his exit from the Gray Lady.
Bennet told his side of the story of his June 2020 exit from The New York Times in a column published in The Economist on Thursday. The 16,000-word article detailed the Times’ shift away from what Bennet describes as traditional journalistic principles toward a new and “illiberal” news philosophy.
“The Times’s problem has metastasised from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favour one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether,” Bennet wrote.
The article features critical portrayals of the Times’ publisher A.G. Sulzberger and former executive editor Dean Baquet, both of whom Bennet says sacrificed him instead of standing for principles they had previously claimed to…
