Revolt at the New York Times
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 0:03.0 | And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 0:05.3 | And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod. |
| 0:09.9 | And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share, |
| 0:14.1 | tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show. |
| 0:20.2 | In the course of one weekend, two major American newsrooms are in golfed in crisis, |
| 0:25.5 | and top editors are forced to resign. |
| 0:28.5 | At the New York Times, James Bennett, the editor of the editorial page, |
| 0:32.4 | steps down after a newsroom uproar over an op-ed by Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, |
| 0:39.8 | that ran under the headline, Send in the Troops. |
| 0:43.0 | And in Philadelphia, the top editor of the inquire, Stan Wyshnowski, is booted out over a headline |
| 0:49.0 | that read, Buildings Matter 2. Both of people's are unexpected fallouts from the wave of nationwide |
| 0:56.2 | protests, growing out of the killing and Minneapolis of George Floyd in the outrage over police |
| 1:01.5 | harassment of African Americans. But they also raised profound questions for the media. |
| 1:07.2 | Is it the responsibility of newspapers to tell all sides of a story and reflect all viewpoints, |
| 1:13.0 | even when they might offend some readers and some might perceive as furthering and authoritarian |
| 1:19.0 | agenda? Are newsrooms in danger of censoring unpopular opinions for fear of rousing the woke |
| 1:24.9 | brigades? We'll discuss with David Fokonflick, the media correspondent for NPR, on this episode of |
| 1:31.7 | Skull Duggery. |
| 1:39.0 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of CROB. Well, I'm not a CROB. |
| 1:43.0 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions |
| 1:48.3 | still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have |
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