The New York Times is no longer a news outlet with a liberal slant, but has morphed into one with an “illiberal bias,” wrote James Bennet, the former editorial page editor, who was infamously cast out in 2020.
“The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether,” Bennet wrote in a lengthy essay for The Economist’s 1848 Magazine headlined, “When the New York Times lost its way.”
“All the empathy and humility in the world will not mean much against the pressures of intolerance and tribalism without an invaluable quality that [Publisher A.G.]
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