TALKING POLITICS What Just Happened at the New York Times?
In an extra episode, we're back with last week's guest Jonathan Shainin, Head of Opinion at the Guardian, so he can talk us through the big blow-up at the NYT. What has it taught us about about the new battlegrounds in newspaper opinion? Where does power now lie in newspaper offices? And where does Jonathan draw the line between what can and can't be published? In our next episode, voices on the ground in the US.
Further Reading:
The Tom Cotton Op-Ed from the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html
Michelle Goldberg in the NYT
Tom Cotton Op-Ed under review:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/business/new-york-times-op-ed-cotton.html
The creation of the NYT "op-ed" page, which was launched in 1970
The history of the "objectivity norm" in American journalism