At one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. domestic political history, news organisations are struggling with key questions about both their internal practices and their purpose in a changed world. This weekend, James Bennet, the senior opinion editor at the New York Times, resigned as a result of an inflammatory op-ed authored by conservative U.S. Senator Tom Cotton under the initial headline “Send In the Troops.†Bennet at first defended the column, which he later admitted he had not read.
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