James Bennet is the former NY Times editor who was cast off for sin of publishing an op-ed by a sitting Senator. That was in the summer of 2020 and ever since then we’ve gotten glimpses of what went on behind the scenes that led up to that firing. The gist is that a bunch of younger staffers, led by Black@NYT and given support by Nikole Hannah-Jones (author of the 1619 Project) demanded Bennet’s scalp and the paper capitulated.Read More
Ex-NY Times staffer: ‘It was like a Maoist struggle session’
