Departure of New York Times columnist puts a spotlight on the void of pro-Trump voices in its opinion pages
The paper of record doesn't have a representative for roughly half of the U.S. voting population — at least on its opinion pages.The New York Times has 12 featured columnists following the departure of its longtime conservative writer Ross Douthat, who was poached by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss last week as a new "60 Minutes" correspondent.According to a drop-down menu on the Times' homepage, the remaining columnists are Jamelle Bouie, Maureen Dowd, David French, Thomas Friedman, M.
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The paper of record doesn't have a representative for roughly half of the U.S. voting population — at least on its opinion pages.The New York Times has 12 featured columnists following the departure of its longtime conservative writer Ross Douthat, who was poached by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss last week as a new "60 Minutes" correspondent.According to a drop-down menu on the Times' homepage, the remaining columnists are Jamelle Bouie, Maureen Dowd, David French, Thomas Friedman, M. Gessen, Michelle Goldberg, Ezra Klein, Nicholas Kristof, Carlos Lozada, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Lydia Polgreen and Bret Stephens.NYT COLUMNIST SAYS SHE 'DEEPLY' REGRETS PRAISING SENATE HOPEFUL AFTER RAPE ALLEGATIONOf the Times' 12 columnists, only two of them, David French and Bret Stephens, are self-described conservatives but have spent the past decade opposing President Donald Trump, so much so that they both declared their support for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.Douthat's new boss notably was formerly a Times colleague of his. Weiss resigned from the Gray Lady as an opinion editor in 2020 after being ostracized and bullied by far-left staffers, famously declaring at the time that "Twitter has become [the Times'] ultimate editor." Her resignation followed the debacle at the paper after publishing the now-infamous Tom Cotton op-ed in 2020 about using federal troops to quell civil unrest.
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- The paper of record doesn't have a representative for roughly half of the U.S. voting population — at least on its opinion pages.The New York Times has 12 featured columnists following the departure of its longtime conservative writer Ross Douthat, who was poached by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss last week as a new "60 Minutes" correspondent.According to a drop-down menu on the Times' homepage, the remaining columnists are Jamelle Bouie, Maureen Dowd, David French, Thomas Friedman, M.
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