Op-Ed Sections, Threat or Menace?

You are correct.

 

Makes great sense to have smart, avid conservative / libertarian voices on the NYT Op Ed page.

Not sure Stephens or Weiss have lived up to the promise of the platform.

 

How does an average 'thinker' at best begin a career at the Wall Street Journal as a deputy editorial editor? I'll hang up and listen.

 

Weiss leaves. She resigned. She posted the letter to her Web site under a heading called "Resignation Letter." Sounds like she might, uh, sue.

Resignation Letter — Bari Weiss

My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.

There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I’m no legal expert. But I know that this is wrong.

I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public. And I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.

Part of me wishes I could say that my experience was unique. But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times. Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher, when we can assure ourselves of job security (and clicks) by publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country and the world? And so self-censorship has become the norm.

What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity. If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.

 

another centrist

 

Sounds like a real snowflake

 

The headline to that... "Maybe she deserves them"...is, man, I think there'd be a better choice.

 

good thread here explaining the Op Ed page under Bennet



a great deal of this will change under Mary Suh.

 

Every line of Weiss's letter makes it sound as if she's someone both her co-workers and bosses are desperately glad she'll be gone.

 

I know the following is incredibly lazy, but can someone give me the synopsis on what to make of Bari Weiss?