2. I like ribbing the Times as much as anybody but I'm also inclined to cut them some slack because covering the Trump era is hard to cover for a paper like the Times.
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13. One possible silver lining is the break-up of consensus politics should allow Times to be more open to voices on left as well as right -- one sign of that is hiring
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14. If I were editing the Times (ho ho ho) I'd get someone whose job it is to follow white nationalist right & report regularly on what they are thinking. Stop pretending that reasonable Never Trump conservatives are the real GOP.
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15. Also, I'd open up Times op ed to the more paleo-cons and also people on the Democratic Party left (feminists, BLM, DSA etc).
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16. For more on the Times & its troubles, this is an excellent piece by my colleague
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17. Well, that didn't last very long:https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/963612619163750400 …
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18. Honestly, James Bennet & Bari Weiss should just call me. I can really advise them on how better to cover fractured opinions in Trump era America.
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19. The Times both hired & fired Quinn Norton too quickly. If they had researched her background more, they could've offered her a more appropriate position & wouldn't have been blindsided backlash.
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20. Hiring Norton to write about tech under her own byline makes sense (she's good at it & you can separate her dubious opinions from her writing for paper). Having her write anonymous editorials was wrong choice.
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Indeed. It feels like the times is incompetently trying to "average out" something that defies this type of journalistic technique. They seem to attempt to appease the exact same people who dismiss them as "fake news". The results are a bit absurd.
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