Media mavens may remember, from the early years of the Covid era, the blow the New York Times already crippled reputation for fairness took when James Bennet was forced out of his Editorial Page Editor slot at the paper.
It came in June 2020, days after the paper ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas that called upon President Donald Trump to use troops to quell violence connected to Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of George Floyd in police custody. The offending opinion piece, “Send In the Troops,” was quickly weighed down with a pathetic five-paragraph Editor’s Note, stuck at the front like a warning sign, emblematic of the paper’s hyper-caffeinated ideological lurch even further to the left.
Bennet, now a columnist at The Economist, has just released a damning autopsy of his former paper, “When the New York Times…
