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AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File Earlier this week, writer and former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss revealed in a podcast with Senator Tim Scott that an editor at the paper wanted to send his op-ed to Chuck Schumer for approval.
The Times immediately denied the claim in a statement to the New York Post , saying in no uncertain terms that the paper would never ask for approval from an outside source before running an op-ed. They also tweeted out their statement. . @nytopinion does not seek outside approval or consultation before publishing anything. This is simply not how journalism works. Times Opinion publishes a wide spectrum of diverse voices, and we always welcome hearing from more. pic.twitter.com/QatH3f7unV — NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) August 12, 2022 Here is the exchange between Weiss and Scott, where the writer explains to the Senator what happened when the op-ed was submitted, though we never find out why the op-ed didn’t run. Weiss: Here’s what happened. I was at the New York Times and you or your staff sent in an op-ed about the bill, and why it fell apart. And this is the part I’m not sure if you know — there was a discussion about the piece, and whether or not we should run it, and one colleague, a more senior colleague, said to a more junior colleague who was pushing for the piece, ‘Do you think the Republicans really care about minority rights?’ Scott: Wow. Weiss: And the more junior colleague said, ‘I think Tim Scott cares about minority rights.’ And then — and here’s the pretty shocking part — the more senior colleague said, ‘Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it.’ Scott: Wow. Weiss: And the colleague, the younger one, refused. Because he said — because that colleague said […]
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