Bari Weiss Resigns from The New York Times

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• This week, Bari Weiss, a high-profile editor and writer for the New York Times opinion section, announced her resignation from the paper. Weiss published a 1,500 word letter to Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger outlining her reasons for departure.
• The letter was highly critical of Times employees and leadership, describing a “hostile work environment” where co-workers had insulted her or called for her removal.
• Weiss also described the Times opinion section as a place where intellectual curiosity had become a liability, adding: “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor.”
• “Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher, when we can assure ourselves of job security (and clicks) by publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country and the world?” Weiss wrote.
• Weiss has been known to question some aspects of social justice movements that have taken root in recent years. Recently, she described the staff unrest following the Times’ publication of a controversial Tom Cotton op-ed as a “civil war between the (mostly young) wokes and the (mostly 40+) liberals.”

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