Right-Leaning Out Journalists Bari Weiss, Andrew Sullivan Leave Posts
New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss resigned this week, and New York magazine columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan announced that Friday will be his last day in that position.In a resignation letter posted on her website Monday, Weiss said the Times has become an “illiberal environment,” intolerant of anything that doesn’t fit a left-wing “orthodoxy.” Twitter has become the paper’s “ultimate editor,” she wrote, adding that she has encountered hostility within the Times as well as on social media.“My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views,” she wrote. “They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m ‘writing about the.
