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The saga of Bari Weiss’s tortured tenure at The New York Times neatly encapsulates a much broader problem. Donald Trump’s election has indeed proven to be a turning point for the press. The industry, however, pivoted 180 degrees in the wrong direction and lost all ability to turn back.

Media bias long predates Trump’s political career. Conflicted about his presidency, I remember waking

Many liberal journalists shrugged off the fiery exit of New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss, some even mocking the writer over the open letter she had penned to the paper's publisher.

While many conservatives rallied behind Weiss after she released the letter detailing the abuse she faced from her Times colleagues and how the Twitter mob "has become its ultimate editor" of the

Normally, an opinion editor/writer resigning from The New York Times would be newsworthy mostly in just media circles. The fact that it was controversial writer Bari Weiss who stepped away on Tuesday made the news more notable.

It became a blockbuster story once her resignation letter became public. In a scathing criticism of the Times, Weiss laid out both personal and professional

Not only is the political media biased, but it’s sending consumers searching for “news that is accurate, opinions that are vital and debate that is sincere,” according to a new survey that polled on a quote pulled from the resignation letter of the New York Times’s Bari Weiss.

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey found continued dismissal of the media as biased, twice as much by