The Times had endured many cycles of Twitter outrage for one story or opinion piece or another. Didn’t he think other Times readers should understand the sources of Trump’s support? The Opinion department is a relic of the era when the Times enforced a line between news and opinion journalism. I did not think to add, because I’d lost track of this truth myself by then, that opinion journalism that never causes pain is not journalism. That was our ambition for Times Opinion – or mine, I guess.

Source: New York Times December 14, 2023 20:03 UTC