Former NYT Editorial Page Editor James Bennet Pens Scathing Essay: The Times “Has Metastasized From Liberal Bias to Illiberal Bias”
James Bennet, former editorial page editor of The New York Times
The former editorial page editor of The New York Times, James Bennet, wrote a scathing column criticizing the paper for a “shift away from its previous journalistic principles.”
In the piece “When the New York Times lost its way,” written for the British-based The Economist, Bennet also shares details on his departure.
He is critical of both Times’ publisher A.G. Sulzberger as well as former executive editor Dean Baquet. Bennet accuses both of sacrificing him when they came under some pressure rather than standing for the principles they claim to believe in.
Bennet writes, “The Times’s problem has metastasised from liberal bias to illiberal bias,
