The NY Times let itself become hopelessly slanted.

An excerpt from “Slanted: How the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson:

There’s no more exemplary sign of the death-of-the-news-as-we-once-knew-it than the public unraveling of the New York Times, once perhaps of the most well-respected news organizations on the planet. The newspaper’s series of unfortunate, self-inflicted events, highlighted in a disastrous summer of 2019, led one insider to refer to the publication as “The New Woke Times.” A leaked transcript of a staff meeting following a string of public embarrassments punctuated the point. …

If … you remember a dominant narrative on the news and the Internet being President Trump as a racist and divisive leader in a divided America, you know it is at least partly the result of a plan executed by the New York Times. …

U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, [wrote an op-ed] for the Times titled “Send in the Troops.” It advocated for dispatching military assistance to US cities wracked by violence amid protests against police brutality. Sending in the troops is a position that has plenty of both supporters and de- tractors. This is typical of topics tackled in op-ed pieces. Most people would argue that’s the point: to present diverse views. …

New York Times employees pen a letter to Times management demanding the newspaper publish a refutation of Cotton’s position. … As demanded by the mob of staff, the Times adds an editor’s note to Cotton’s column. It says the op-ed had been approved in a “rushed” editorial process that did not meet its standards. [Publisher] Sulzberger emails employees, “Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we’ve experienced in recent years.” Days later, [the editorial page] chief is finished. The Times announces he has resigned. …

Attkisson’s Bottom Line: “It is a strange place, indeed, where news reporters can editorialize but op-ed editorials cannot.” 

Source: The New Woke Times | RealClearBooks