Silverstein said Hughes also violated the policy earlier in the year, when she signed an open letter protesting the Times’s coverage of transgender issues. “She and I discussed that her desire to stake out this kind of public position and join in public protests isn’t compatible with being a journalist at The Times, and we both came to the conclusion that she should resign,” he wrote in the email.

It seems having a spine isn't compatible with being a journalist at the Times.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, "anywhere where they expect their journalists to present a neutral point of view or the appearance of it" would be more appropriate than saying it's something that only applies to The Times... Journalists know they're risking their career by doing something like what happened here. 8t might lead them to become columnists instead, as happened with a local TV journalist that decided to write a letter criticizing a controversial bill and to submit it for publishing in a journal, she lost her job and started writing books and opinion pieces instead.

[–] gastationsushi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You believe the right wing op ed writers at the times could ever get fired for their opinions? Bari Weiss was making mid 6 figures posting trash on the NYT before she accused her employer of discrimination to jump start coverage of her new substack.

Everyone is biased, it's how the brain operates. Some biases try to reflect reality while others try to manipulate people to believe propaganda. The Times is perfectly fine employing propagandists.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Op Ed is the opposite of journalism, I was talking about journalists.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Op Ed writers literally write opinion pieces. That’s not journalism.