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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020

      3. Faux-objectivity & both-sidesism always ran into problems with politics expanded beyond elite quarrels and started to include the broader public (as in the 1960s and in our current age of protests).

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020

      4. One curious feature of the current strife between the newsroom & the opinion section is that both sides are smart enough to realize the age of faux-objectivity & both-sidesism is over. They just have different solutions to the problem.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020

      5. As @benyt's excellent article from yesterday made clear, the newsroom solution to faux-objectivity has come from a cohort of mostly African-American reporters battle-hardened at Ferguson who have pushed for an end to old euphemisms and evasions in writing about racism.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020

      6. The newsroom solution is greater bluntness and diversity of experience (i.e. bringing marginalized groups into the writing of stories), then the op ed solution was expansion of political spectrum (good) combined with hot take nihilism (the source of trouble)

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020

      7. I want to be clear here that I'm not a hater. There's much that happened in @JBennet tenure as opinion editor that I admired (notably bringing on board Jamelle Bouie & @michelleinbklyn). Bennet was smart enough to know the old elite consensus was dead & need to move beyond it

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020

      8. As an example of what Bennet's genuinely helpful expansion of the political spectrum inside the Times, it's hard to imagine the pre-Bennet Times running @Vinncent Vincent Bevins's piece on how the liberal world order is built on bloodpic.twitter.com/CBirUuOrRD

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020

      9. But Bennet has had a harder time expanding with right-wing voices, in part because it is harder to find Trumpists who can write non-batshit stuff (one exception is @ToryAnarchist, who the Times has been running). So paper settled back to Never Trumpists, mainly.

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    8. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 8 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @ToryAnarchist

      Yeah, they should have just hired DM straight out. Inform/expose/vehemently rebut.

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    10. Jordan Michael Smith‏ @WriterJMS 8 Jun 2020
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      Lind would be great. There is another desire at work here: to reach out to conservative readers, by having conservative writers. This conflicts with the reality of what the conservative movement is, which is about white grievances. There's a direct, irresolvable conflict.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2020
      Replying to @WriterJMS @SWGoldman and

      Yep, that's the problem.

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        1. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 8 Jun 2020
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          Basically, you can do high minded racial/ethnic anxieties—so intellectuals like Caldwell and McCarthy speak for the base. If you *want* writers to speak for the base. Actually, I do. I want to read their vile stuff in one place. I guess I want to read Carl Schmitt in 1932 as well

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