Ted Johnson Bari Weiss, staff editor and writer in The New York Times’ opinion section, resigned on Tuesday, descrying what she said was “constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views” and an environment where she said “self-censorship has become the norm.”“What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity,” she wrote in a lengthy resignation letter, which she posted to her personal website. “If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized.
Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.” Her resignation follows that of James Bennet, the editor of the Opinion section, who.
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