1. What the hell is happening at the New York Times? I think the larger crisis, going well beyond the argument over the Cotton op ed, is the crack-up of the elite consensus that dominated from 1939 until 1991 (and had a strong afterlife until around 2014).
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11. In short, the fracturing of the New York Times is symptomatic of the larger fracturing of America (or rather the reality of a fractured America becoming more obvious in an age of protests). More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/society/racism-new-york-times/ …
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"We get clicks with hot takes and trolling," you mean
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Right—that’s was a really bad hire. He’s not good at the job, he doesn’t write smart polemics. But again, the fired coach thing obtains—that was a bad move for sure, but MG/JB/MA/EB were good moves. Fix process, don’t grovel for posting stuff by important pol, even if grotesque.
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I just can’t get over how the Times being impulsive/feckless/disorganized/ass covering after the fact/absurd in its *proccess* (“it was too harsh” or whatever—as if that wouldn’t delete 80% of op Ed’s) became the argument, *rather than Cotton’s repellent argument!** That on NYT.
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It was bad enough when David Brooks represented my alma mater on the
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and generate clicks. don't underestimate the clicks.
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If only Bret were entertaining.
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"Entertain with hot takes and trolling." This is the direction WaPo took much more aggressively in the early part of the decade, with a a bevy of right-wingers whose takes were mostly in the digital version and existed to drive clicks and replies in the garbage comments section.
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@NYTimes, taking itself more seriously, put these hot takes in the paper, which also gave them much more identification with the organization. Rubin works for WaPo, but no one really blamed WaPo editors for the stuff she was writing in her blog. NY Times path was more fraught.
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Except that Bennet wasn’t “lead” to this. The Atlantic has been doing that kind of thing for a while, and Bennet was likely hired BECAUSE this was the editorial environment he cut his teeth in
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