OPINION
Tom Cotton hysteria shows cowardice from The New York Times
By David Marcus
June 5, 2020 | 10:48pm
Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
AP
This week, The New York Times ran an op-ed by United States Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) urging that the military be used to quell the fires, looting and violence gripping the nation’s cities.
A Morning Consult poll from this week found that 58 percent of registered voters agreed with that idea. But apparently it’s an opinion forbidden in the Times.
Black staffers at the paper said the column made them feel unsafe. The day after it ran, the paper folded like, well, The New York Times, and apologized for it.
Once, the separation between the news and Opinion page — church and state — at the Times was held up as an exemplar of objectivity in journalism. Now, reporters are dictating what views the paper is and is not allowed to publish.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/tom-cotton-hysteria-shows-cowardice-from-the-new-york-times/
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Newspapers, of course, are allowed to decide what opinions they publish. There are liberal editorial boards. There are conservative editorial boards. But The New York Times can no longer haughtily pretend to be the public square of American life, to accurately represent the diversity of opinion of a nation. They are not a dispassionate paper; they are an advocacy group.
And if reporters can dictate what opinions the Times runs, how long before they start deciding what news is worthy of publication and not based on their own political beliefs?
That’s a trick question. They already do.
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