The New York Times remains haunted by the Tom Cotton op-ed almost 4 years later
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Ex-New York Times staffer Adam Rubenstein's tell-all about the drama that unfolded over the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed has renewed criticism over the Gray Lady's liberal partisanship.
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What followed was an unprecedented backlash from within the paper. Dozens of Times employees rushed to social media in a coordinated campaign, many of them echoing the phrase "Running this put Black @nytimes staff in danger."
Days later, the Times updated Cotton's piece with a lengthy editor's note declaring it "fell short of our standards and should not have been published." Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, who initially defended the op-ed's publication, later reversed himself, blaming "a rushed editorial process." Two members of the Times Opinion staff, James Bennet and Adam Rubenstein, were pushed out at the Times as a result. Another staffer, James Dao, was reassigned to a different department.
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