6. But even under Nixon, Times instinct is to try to act as mediator between competing elite factions. When Agnew complained about press bias, Times responded by hiring Safire.
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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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Slow down with the mega threads, Seth Abramson
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@SethAbramson Nothing wrong with megathreads.... one just has to collate them... I use the@ThreadReaderApp reply to one of Seth's Megathread tweets with the word "unroll" and the bot assembles all the tweets into one page. it is free too. - Show replies
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How do you see their position vs. that of the WaPo, which seems to have taken a more aggressive stance?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Jeet this is hands down the most myopic wrongheaded thread you’ve ever produced. You’re wrong on basically every point.
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Then write a point by point rebuttal
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I don't think you're wrong in general, but this isn't explaining Quinn Norton. Quinn Norton isn't a random Trump voter.
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Nor is she any kind of political elite. On the contrary, she defines herself, personally and politically, as a transgressive person.
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