{"id":12428,"date":"2020-06-17T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12428"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:50:23","slug":"the-nyt-and-the-cotton-op-ed-opinion-or-party-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-nyt-and-the-cotton-op-ed-opinion-or-party-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYT and the Cotton op-ed: Opinion or party line?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see things clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) ranks as a fiercely independent newspaper, much like the Swiss people themselves. The high-quality Zurich newspaper is no fan of Donald Trump<\/a>. It is, therefore, noteworthy that the NZZ views<\/a> with alarm for the journalism profession recent events at the New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its opinion piece, the NZZ wonders whether we are seeing the \u201cend of the newspaper as a place of free thought and the beginning of a moralistic culture of denunciation.\u201d In doing so, it contends that the New York Times would be no different than the \u201cright-wing media\u201d that it often criticizes as being overly partisan instead of purely objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NZZ\u2019s case in point: The forced resignation of James Bennet<\/a>, the opinion editor of the NYT. His sin, apparently, was publishing a guest commentary<\/a> by Sen. Tom Cotton<\/a> (R-Ark.) entitled \u201cSend in the Troops.\u201d Cotton\u2019s piece endorsed a military intervention against the sometimes violent protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Cotton cited the Insurrection Act, a federal law dating to 1807, as the legal basis for such a military intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Sometimes it takes an outsider to see things clearly. The Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) ranks as a fiercely independent newspaper, much like the Swiss people themselves. The high-quality Zurich newspaper is no fan of Donald Trump. 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