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I provided examples of high-level resignations with detailed explanations as to their reasons. A famed founder of the paper leaves it because he's stopped from publishing a major election story. A decidedly left-wing opinion writer is attacked by peers as if she's some sort of right-wing extremist and decides to resign. Both say this sort of thing couldn't happen just a few years ago. If you claim that this was commonplace since 1996, where are your examples of such occurrences?

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Sure, all of these are examples of journalists leaving for ideological or ethical disputes with their employer.

For her frustration with liberal bias: https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/03/sharyl-attkisso...

For a feeling that the paper is blocking his investigation: https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/paul_watson_may_be_the.php

For disagreement about Israel: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/cnn-anchor-resigns-after-c...

For concerns about corporate interests: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/why-i-have-...

For feeling that he cannot write about Sheldon Adelson: https://www.salon.com/2016/04/27/journalist_resigns_after_ba...

I didn’t go too far back, but heres one from 1998, for disagreement about revealing personal details: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-30-mn-27898...

A lot of these examples have nothing to do with political ideology. Some that do point in the direction of the problem I was talking about.

2014: Sharyl Attkisson worked for CBS for two decades, heavily criticized Obama administration and yet left on "amicable" terms (according to that article).

2020: Bari Weiss (who isn't exactly a pro-Trump Republican) faced "constant bullying" from colleagues at NYT, attacks from them on Twitter and on internal Slack. Less you think it's her personal problem, James Bennet was forced to resign from NYT for allowing a republican senator to publish an OP-ED.

Does it not seem like there was a shift of some sort? Well, apparently Attkisson herself published several books claiming that things have changed:

https://www.amazon.com/Sharyl-Attkisson/e/B001IYXCFM/ref=dp_...

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