From New York Times town hall: op-ed team pitched the piece TO Tom Cotton. Not the other way around.

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

Ugh.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. So we have a

Mikael Schmidt Hillary E-Mail created type story once again..

Horse Race anyone.

[dhill926]

2. fuckers need to be fired...

[maxsolomon]

3. They're trying to buck up their non-partisan bona fides.

It won't work. There is no more bipartisanship. There's Rational, and there's Crazytown. Giving a voice to Crazytown won't convince them to believe anything else you print.

Cotton has as much business in the Senate as Rand Paul and Mike Lee and Ted Cruz and, well, I could go on and on...

[dalton99a]

4. All the Propaganda That's Fit to Print.

https://www.thewrap.com/nyt-pitched-tom-cotton-topic/

New York Times Pitched Sen. Tom Cotton on ‘Send in the Troops’ Op-Ed Topic
The paper had said Thursday that a “rushed editorial process” led to the op-ed’s publication and that the piece “did not meet” its standards.
Lindsey Ellefson | June 5, 2020 @ 11:00 AM

More details about the “rushed editorial process” that led to the New York Times’ publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s call to “send in the troops” to protests were revealed Friday in a phone call between Cotton’s staff and Times employees.

Business Insider’s Patrick Coffee tweeted a tidbit from the Times town hall, writing, “From New York Times town hall: op-ed team pitched the piece TO Tom Cotton. Not the other way around.”

National Review Online, a leading conservative publication, published a chat with a Cotton staffer Friday, too, which seemed to align with how Coffee characterized the editorial process.

According to NRO, Cotton pitched a different op-ed to the Times and, after some back-and-forth on Monday and Tuesday, agreed to the topic suggested by the paper, which was a piece focused solely on the Insurrection Act. The senator’s original proposal, per NRO, was one that packaged an argument on the Insurrection Act with “another proposal.”