Journalist James Bennet, formerly of the New York Times and once considered the “heir apparent” to run the paper, before being forced out amid a left-wing staff revolt in 2020, recently gave a talk for The Point, a Chicago-based scholarly magazine, titled “Is There a Mainstream Media?”
Bennet garnered the attention of media-bias mavens in 2023 with his 17,000-word essay for his current employers at The Economist magazine. Bennet, who is no conservative, discussed the intolerant illiberalism that has infected his old paper in recent years and that forced him out of his job as Editorial Page Editor in 2020. That came after a staff revolt triggered by Bennet running 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 George Floyd’s…
