Argument against Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed was he'd been calling for "no quarter," which would mean state violence against protestors, and NYT shouldn't promote that. After 3.5 years, we learn the reason wasn't the oft-stated "Cotton didn't call for that," but that NYT changed the piece so it didn't.
This is a far bigger journalistic scandal than people accusing an anecdote of being fake on Twitter. Did a Senator propose invoking the Insurrection Act against peaceful protestors and the Times softened his language?
March 2, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Argument against Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed was he'd been calling for "no quarter," which would mean state violence against protestors, and NYT shouldn't promote that. After 3.5 years, we learn the reason wasn't the oft-stated "Cotton didn't call for that," but that NYT changed the piece so it didn't.