Bari Weiss to Bill Maher: New York Times Is Shutting Out Half of the Country Now
1st August 2020
On the July 31 Real Time with Bill Maher, former New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss described her fear of how our nation’s so-called paper of record has now seemingly banned the opinions of half of America from its editorial pages.
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Weiss said mere criticism is “kosher,” it’s the word that journalists do. “What cancel culture is about is not criticism. It is about punishment. It is about making a person radioactive. It is about taking away their job,” Weiss told Maher. “The writer Jonathan Rauch called it social murder. And I think that’s right.”