James Bennet – the former New York Times editorial page editor pushed out after running a column by a top Republican senator – said he was urged to attach “trigger warnings” to op-eds written by conservatives before he was dumped by the Gray Lady.
Bennet accused the so-called “paper of record” of having an “illiberal bias” in a blistering 17,000 word cover story for the Economist titled “When the New York Times lost its way,” which was published Thursday.
“The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether,” wrote Bennet, currently a columnist and senior editor for The Economist.