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Where would anyone get the idea that a columnist shouldn't criticize other writers at a paper? Everyone who works there is supposed to have the same ideas about everything?

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One writer wrote the 1619 project, which was publicly called out for lying about American history to advance a racially divisive narrative in times of racial sensitivity. They had to issue corrections, and followed up recently with a round of unacknowledged stealth edits. That was fine.

These folks didn't criticize the writer whose agenda piece embarrassed the paper. But they criticize a writer for criticizing that article?

How can a guild that makes this kind of bizarre decisions, which are clearly agenda-drive and divorced from any commitment to objective truth, be trusted with the newspaper of record?

Neither the paper nor the guild can be trusted at all.

Of course! Just like the graduate school always block papers that criticise pre-existing work. /s

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