That’s a pretty rich comment coming from the New York Times, controlled by different, equally troubling oligarchs, with both known and whispered-about baggage of its own.
The fact of the matter is, all of these jobs where others pay you to write can be a bummer if you end up deciding something/someone connected to your workplace is a juicy target for a story. Hence the long-standing tradition of outsiders becoming insiders, and so on, as it has been for all of eternity.