[InTheArena]

I think as shown by similar scandals at NYT and WSJ, that the media press do not accept feedback, and instead will rally around extending and furthering their ideological anti-liberal (authoritarian) monoculture, and instead get rid of dissenting voices.

see James Bennet at NYT (who was fired for publishing a op-ed from a sitting American senator) or even Kevin D. Williamson at the Athletic.

[dekhn]

I can't see why everybody got so worked up about the op-ed you're referring to. The Times has traditionally been a venue for voices that are not in its constituency, and in this particular case, Cotton wrote such a crazy article that it reduced his credibility significantly in front of the nation. He proposed using the military to quell protests, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...

[eej71]

The Atlantic ran an interesting piece about the details of how that op-ed came together.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton...

[dekhn]

I think if all op-eds published in the Times were inspected for factual accuracies, they'd find plenty in the ones that align with the Times's employees (the Cotton op-ed has a long preface which basically says "we shouldn't have published this because facts")

[faeriechangling]

Never look NPR or NYT to have an anti-liberal monoculture, I thought they were mostly liberal.

[InTheArena]

liberal as in leftist, yes. liberal as in anti-authoritarian, pluralistic, pro-democracy and freedom of speech? Not so much anymore.