The News staffers clearly believe their nutty politics trumps the Times’s claim to represent a reasonable range of opinion — a range that has included the thoughts of Vladimir Putin and various terrorists without inciting a staff revolt. The intolerant, expensively educated young lefties are converting the Opinion pages from a public square to a propaganda outlet — and they’re using their paper’s system against it.
Surely the Times has news meetings and surely the news budget is accessible to staffers. When I worked at The Inquirer I could find out what was going to be in the paper the next day. And while OpEd does just mean the page opposite the editorial page, it is traditional to have views differing from those on the editorial page, if only because it looks like the paper is open to a variety of viewpoints. Presumably, that’s why the Times has been running pieces by the likes of Tom Cotton.
I have nothing against the Times. I used to write for the book review section from time to time. But I cannot be alone in thinking that it is not the paper it once was. And the current management seems both timorous and incompetent.
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