WaPo Media Critic Explains Why Paper Didn’t Defend Fired NYT Editor After Tom Cotton Op-Ed Furor: ‘We Were Afraid’

Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote Thursday he and others at the newspaper lacked the “courage” to defend New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet when he resigned amid controversy in 2020. Bennett green-lit an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) during the summer of civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd […]