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Slack.com slash DHQ. The nearest thing that the New York Times had to a writer hired to

be a sort of kind of centrist conservative liberal after the 2016 election, after the New

York Times completely botched it, has resigned from the New York Times. That's it. Couldn't

take it a letter from Barry Weiss. Barry Weiss writes, it is with sadness that I write to

tell you I'm resigning from the New York Times. The paper's failure to anticipate the outcome

of the 2016 election meant that it didn't have a firm grasp of the country that it covers.

So she details why and how she was hired. I'm going to skip around a little bit to just

the juiciest lines. A new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this

paper. The truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to

an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. Couldn't be true. Twitter is not

on the mass-tet of the New York Times, but Twitter has become its ultimate editor. I always

was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history.

Now history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined

narrative. There are terms for this, unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and

constructive discharge. I'm no legal expert, but I know that this is wrong. This is a new

McCarthyism. Ideas cannot win on their own. They need a voice. They need a hearing. Above

all, they must be backed by people willing to live by them. That opinion is no longer

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