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James Bennet’s Firing Was Just One of Many Illiberal Errors

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Stop being afraid to speak out against the madness.

Nov. 1, 2022 save d Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Comment Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Last week, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote a column revisiting the New York Times’ sacking of its opinion editor James Bennet in 2020. Bennet had made some mistakes during his tenure, but he was fired in response to demands by Times staffers angry that his page had published an op-ed by Republican senator Tom Cotton advocating for the National Guard to be used to prevent

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