We Need to Talk About the New York Times with Tuck Woodstock
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The New York Times's Internal Message to Staff
The executive editor and the opinion editor at the New York Times sent out a message internally to staff, which immediately gets leaked. It claims that New York Times journalist signed the glad letter, which is false. They also say that their ethics policy prohibits journalists quote from attacking one another's journalism publicly or signaling support for such attacks. So again, this is an internal message that's basically saying we saw you sign a letter. We're actually going to pretend that you signed a different letter written by an advocacy organization. And we're also going to call this an attack on your poor defenseless colleagues that have been experiencing harassment and threats.
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