It damages the NYT’s reputation to have a key reporter on the most important story of the year say a valid news angle shouldn’t be discussed because it has “racist roots.” Aren’t they supposed to be in the news business?
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1397624206687457284
But basically reporters at the NYT are allowed do whatever they want on social media, however damaging to the paper’s reputation, so long as they have the right politics.
The core issue here is that management at the NYT is cowardly. They are afraid of their young, noisy, leftist reporters. So they don't manage, and insubordination is rampant. And it's very damaging to the product.
This is how you ended up with Donald McNeil getting canned -- he was unpopular with the committee of junior employees that actually runs the paper -- while Taylor Lorenz can carry on in whatever embarrassing way she likes without apparent consequence.
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