{"id":55723,"date":"2020-06-07T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55723"},"modified":"2020-06-07T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:56:10","slug":"55723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55723","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ny-times-editorial-page-editor-resigns-tom-cotton-op-ed-george-floyd\"><em>NY Times<\/em>\u00a0editorial page editor James Bennet resigns amid staff fury over Tom Cotton op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times announced Sunday that Editorial Page Editor James Bennet is resigning \u2014 amid reports of anger inside the company over the publication of an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton about the George Floyd unrest last week.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet had apologized late last week after previously defending the piece, titled, \u201cSend in the Troops.\u201d Cotton, R-Ark., called for the government to deploy troops to help<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He was fired for publishing the *wrong* opinion.<\/p>\n<p>And think about this: It was *news reporters* at the Times who muscled management into this. Which means the wall between news and editorial is completely gone over there. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zau31fZWAk\">https:\/\/t.co\/zau31fZWAk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Martosko (@dmartosko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dmartosko\/status\/1269732969515712521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times\u00a0editorial page editor James Bennet resigns amid staff fury over Tom Cotton op-ed. The New York Times announced Sunday that Editorial Page Editor James Bennet is resigning \u2014 amid reports of anger inside the company over the publication of an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton about the George Floyd unrest last week. Bennet had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55724,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723\/revisions\/55724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}