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Former NYT staffer describes the freak-out following the publishing of Tom Cotton's op-ed

Let us take you back to the summer of 2020. We know we’ll be shamed by the left if we say that cities were burning, so let’s just say it was the height of the fiery but peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd. You might remember that there was a bit of a freak-out at the New York Times after it decided to publish an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton called “Send in the Troops.”

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Editorial page editor James Bennet was blasted on the Times’ Slack channel with the repeated message, “Running this puts black @NYTimes staff in danger.” Dozens of staffers called in sick in protest. Bennet tweeted that it was the job of the paper to present different opinions, but the Times quickly walked that back and reported that Bennet didn’t read Cotton’s op-ed before it went to print. For his part, Cotton took apart the “woke, deeply unserious mob” at the Times in a Twitter thread. Bennet was sent packing.

Mediaite has obtained excerpts of Steve Krakauer’s new book, “Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People,” which includes an interview with former Times staffer Shawn McCreesh, who said it was like a murder scene in the office.

Mediaite reports:

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McCreesh said that Charlie Warzel, a White tech writer, started to cry because “none of his friends wanted to talk to him anymore because he worked for this horrible evil newspaper that would print this op-ed.”

“It was just so bizarre what was happening,” said McCreesh. “It was like a Maoist struggle session.”

“The worst part was that a lot of the people who were stabbing James in the front were the ones that he hired and brought to the newspaper,” McCreesh added. “It was like Caesar on the floor of the Roman Senate or something. Just this sort of horrible moment, and I remember closing my laptop and pouring a huge glass of wine, even though it was at like noon. Because I was so fucking freaked out by what we had just witnessed.”

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