Our one-party journalism system suffers no dissent from within. Here are some who do it anyway. - Tablet Magazine

Our one-party journalism system suffers no dissent from within. Here are some who do it anyway. - Tablet Magazine - BYJACOB SIEGEL

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"On June 3, a week after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, New York Times employees took to Twitter en masse, claiming that the paper had “put Black staffers lives at risk” by publishing Sen. Tom Cotton’s call to use the military to suppress riots. 

That same day, Lee Fang, a reporter for the Intercept, tweeted a short video from a Bay Area protest that showed a young man named Max questioning the movement under whose banner he appeared to be marching.

• “When I as a Black person look at the Black Lives Matter movement, I have questions,” Max said through a gray face mask. 
• “Like I always question, why does a Black life matter only when a white man takes it.”

The full interview was 2 minutes and 6 seconds long. 

On June 6, with his job reportedly at risk for posting the video, Fang was forced to issue a public apology.

 The following day, a top editor at the Times responsible for publishing the Cotton op-ed resigned under companywide pressure.
What had Lee Fang done wrong?...