[delichon]

A lot of her credibility and name recognition stem from her being popular at the NYT and then being ejected for ideological conflict. "First get famous as an archangel evicted from heaven" is not an easily replicable path to success.

[TimorousBestie]

She was not ejected, she left of her own volition.

[delichon]

True. She claims a hostile work environment. That's a sort of constructive ejection when it gets intense. A better word is ostracized.

[benzible]

If you buy her framing, sure. But the New Republic's analysis at the time called it "auto-cancellation: quitting, then blaming her peers for driving her out" - noting her resignation letter was "long on invective and just plain long, [but] short on evidence." She was alone in her characterization of a NY Times staff meeting shortly before her departure as a "civil war"; numerous Times staffers who were actually there publicly contradicted her, calling it just a normal editorial conversation.

She'd spent years building a cancel culture narrative, then positioned her dramatic exit as living proof of her own thesis. Pretty straight line from there to her $150M exit. There's a lot of money in catering to the worldview of billionaires who see themselves as victims.

https://newrepublic.com/article/158535/self-cancellation-bar...