Times newsroom staffers and the publication’s readers were critical of the Cotton op-ed. The elder Sulzberger remained chairman of the New York Times Company until the end of 2020.ĪG Sulzberger is the great-great-grandson of former Times owner Adolph Ochs.īennet told Semafor that Sulzberger and the Times “want to have it both ways” - being an “old school” publication that allows for airing of diverse viewpoints while at the same time catering to its hardcore liberal readership. In 2018, he succeeded his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., as publisher of the newspaper. Sulzberger, 42, is chairman of the New York Times Company and publisher of the daily broadsheet. “That was a huge mistake and a missed opportunity for him to show real strength.”īennet added: “He still could have fired me.” “My mistake there was trying to mollify people,” he said.īennet said Sulzberger “blew the opportunity to make clear that the New York Times doesn’t exist just to tell progressives how progressives should view reality.” Cotton wrote an op-ed for the Times calling for a military response to widespread rioting and looting in the aftermath of the fatal arrest of George Floyd. “One more thing that sometimes gets misreported: I never apologized for publishing the piece and still don’t,” he said.īennet told Semafor on Tuesday that he should not have attached an editor’s note to the Cotton op-ed. He then resigned.īut Bennet told Semafor that reports he apologized were false. R.Umar Abbasi for NY Postĭays after the op-ed was published, Bennet reportedly apologized in the face of overwhelming pushback from readers and other Times journalists. “One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers,” Cotton wrote in the guest op-ed, which was titled “Send In the Troops.” James Bennet resigned in June 2020, days after he green-lighted a controversial op-ed by Sen. In the aftermath of the fatal arrest of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in Minneapolis more than two years ago, Cotton was invited to write a guest op-ed in which he called for a forceful military response to the resulting nationwide unrest. The Post has sought comment from the Times. He said his colleagues treated him “like an incompetent fascist” in the wake of Cotton’s op-ed. James Bennet, who resigned from the Times in 2020 after 19 years at the newspaper, told Semafor on Tuesday that Sulzberger “set me on fire and threw me in the garbage” in order to “mollify” his readers and gain “the applause and the welcome of the left.”īennet accused Sulzberger of kowtowing to the newspaper’s subscribers whose “expectation … is that the Times will be Mother Jones on steroids.” Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) blasted the newspaper’s publisher, AG Sulzberger, for not having his back. The former New York Times opinion page editor who resigned from the Gray Lady after the newsroom erupted in anger because he greenlighted an op-ed by Sen. Musk is right about Soros, libs’ trouble with truth and other commentary NY Times reporter claims iconic NYC wine store stiffed him out of $6,300 in pricey wines The Times tries to soft pedal Biden’s age, but the details are damning Justice is hardly blind in the federal case going against Trump
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