E-Pluribus+: Reactions to the NYT Editorial on Free Speech
A collection of some fair and . . . out there takes on today's New York Times editorial on free speech.
First, some fair criticisms of the NYT’s argument:
Click through to this thread from Ken White (Popehat):
Greg Lukianoff, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
David French, The Dispatch
Now for the “enlightened” takes from journalists and blue checks:
Keith Olbermann with the completely wrong “yelling fire in a crowded theater” take:
Adam Davidson, The New Yorker
Jeff Jarvis, Professor, CUNY Newmark Journalism School
Chip Goins, GBH News Contributor
Atima Omara, Democratic Political Strategist
Jacob Brogan, Washington Post Outlook Editor
Dan Froomkin, PressWatchers
Noah Schactman, Editor in Chief, Rolling Stone
Ishmael Daro, Digital Editor, Democracy Now
Tami Sawyer, Shelby County Commissioner (TN)
Scott Nover, Quartz
Abdallah Fayyad, Boston Globe
Ernest Owens, Philadelphia Magazine Editor-at-Large
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, Center for American Progress
Brandon Farmahini, Podcast Host
Jeremy Yoder, Biologist
Finally, some point out the NYT’s hypocrisy:
Glenn Greenwald
Noam Bloom, Tablet Magazine
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Sonny Bunch, The Bulwark
Pradheep Shanker
Michelangelo Signorile, Host, Signorile Show
Paul Thacker, X Games Medalist
Buck Sexton, Radio Show Host