Posted on 06/04/2020 9:13:13 AM PDT by Libloather
New York (CNN Business) Staffers at The New York Times expressed dismay Wednesday over the newspaper's decision to publish an op-ed written by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton that called for the U.S. military to be deployed in cities across the country to help restore order.
The op-ed was published in The Times opinion section, but staffers from both opinion and the newsroom - which operate separate from one another - publicly dissented.
A parade of Times journalists tweeted a screen shot showing the headline of Cotton's piece, "Send In the Troops," with the accompanying words: "Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger."
New York Times Magazine staff writers Jenna Wortham and Taffy Brodesser-Akner and the paper's senior editor Kwame Opam were among the journalists who did that. National political reporter Astead W. Herndon tweeted his support for his "colleagues, and particularly the black ones."
A spokesperson for The Times did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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Well, buhyeeee.
Unless the troops are going there to shoot every looter and every rioter on sight then what will they do that the police and National Guard can’t?
So open minded.
RE: New York Times staffers revolt over publication of Tom Cotton op-ed
Yep, all the news and opinions that’s fit to print, except the ones we disagree with. That’s the NY Time’s REAL motto.
Turns out that the NYT is non-essential.
Let them shut themselves down.
It’s a beautiful thing.
So the NYT staffers are revolting. Tell us something we didn’t know.
Pansies gotta wilt.
You said it. They stink on ice.
The New York Times runs a dead newspaper in a dying city... other than that this story’s a yawn.
As old regimes and bureaucracies are confronted by change and lose their supremacy, they do not become more open — they become less so. their ideology and thinking turn more concentrated and toxic. Purists, traditionalists and reactionaries who remember past glory come to the fore. They intellectually “circle the wagons” in the face of their impending doom.
this is exactly what we will see with the American main stream media.
What he said is that there are so many places that people are rioting that there aren’t enough police and NG to cover everything.
The US Military has the most advanced “active denial” capabilities on the planet. They are fully capable of dispersing unruly mobs using non-lethal means. Definitely unpleasant for those on the receiving end, but non-lethal.
Perhaps, instead of “Send in the Troops”, we should “Send in the Clowns”, as a measure of restoring peace and prosperity.
I am sure the clowns would do so much better of a job at creating order and fairness throughout society than the troops. < /sarcasm >
Why don't the police have that capability if it exists?
Apparently the NYT is not ideologically pure enough for them.
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