[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Just for balance here......the link below takes you to an article written AUGUST OF 2017 when this lady was hired......

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/31/...int-diversity/

And this is a link to site that authored the article.....

The Intercept - Wikipedia

These are selections from the article.....

"CONTROVERSY ERUPTED on April 14 over the New York Times’s hiring of neoconservative climate-skeptic and anti-Arab polemicist Bret Stephens as the paper’s newest Op-Ed page columnist, hired away from the Wall Street Journal’s right-wing op-ed page. But just two days after it unveiled him, the paper’s op-ed page, with much less fanfare, announced that it had also hired a carbon copy of Stephens named Bari Weiss, also from the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, to “write and commissi

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Exactly as she was doing a decade ago as a “pro-Israel” activist at Columbia and thereafter at various neocon media perches, her formula is as simple as it is predictable: She channels whatever prevailing right-wing grievance exists about colleges, Arabs or Israel critics (ideally, all of those) into a column that’s supposed to be “provocative”on the kinds of quick-off-the-news pieces” that will “amplify the section’s already important voice in the national conversation.”

"In her short tenure, Weiss (pictured, right) has given the paper exactly what it apparently wanted when it hired her. She has churned out a series of trite, shallow, cheap attacks on already-marginalized left-wing targets that have made her a heroine in the insular neocon and right-wing intelligentsia precincts in which she, Stephens, and so many other NYT op-ed writers reside."

Thus it is no surprise that she is honored on this forum as a hero.

I read her letter of resignation and what she said certainly rang true to me.