Bennet recounts that Baquet was at first “taken aback” by the mounting criticism of the piece in the days after its publication, even going so far as to ask Bennet, “Are we truly so precious?” (“The answer, it turns out, was yes,” Bennet writes.) In a written statement to POLITICO Magazine, Sulzberger pushed back against Bennet’s characterization of the culture at the Times. But I could not disagree more strongly with the false narrative he has constructed about The Times. Over time, Bennet writes, more and more of his colleagues came to embrace an insular and openly ideological approach to the Times’ reporting. “One of the glories of embracing illiberalism is that, like Trump, you are always right about everything, and so you are justified in shouting disagreement down,” Bennet writes.

Source: New York Times December 15, 2023 09:26 UTC