NYT Reporters-Turned-Censors Pick a Perilous Path | RealClearPolitics
Initially, Times editors held the line, and Publisher A.G. Sulzberger defended publishing Cotton s op-ed in a letter to the paper s staff Thursday. But by the end of the day, the paper had surrendered and issued a statement saying the op-ed did not meet our standards and promising to examine long term and short term changes. If the paper can t withstand the pressure to censor a U.S. senator expressing an opinion held by a majority of Americans, riots may end up destroying The New York Times after all.
Kind of a “Fourth Turning” moment.