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ok let's go back to david here we have the last few days barry weiss a bit energy are over at the new york times. and she left with a very strident resignation letter. and she's getting some praise i don't praise her i think she's part of the problem of this cancel culture and this very strident artist's. media and i am an x. . basically your character is is destroyed because you have a different political view and it seems to me that she's. the platform because the mob was coming after her and she knew when to get out how do you feel about it is the revolution itself in the area police and people tend and this is where i see the pendulum is going to swing when people say hey but i like that person or he but that person was actually nice i know that i was reading an article i will not remember the name of it but as a left wing the left wing writer saying that but this individual that they're now accusing of racism i know him personally is not racists and that's invariably when people start to realize it's easy to pick on the characterized individuals like alex jones like miley not lis

watershed moment for many people vab the collapse of free speech and stead thought, the resignation of barry weiss, in her departure intellectual curiosity is now a liability at the times, standing up for principles puts a target on your back does the "new york times" really stand up for great journalism still? >> i believe it does barry was an opinion writer, and she's certainly got opinions the obviously, in our news pages, online as well as in the paper, the times always striving to be objective. as for opinions, this is an incredibly polarized time in this country and the world, and some of that polarization and some of those arguments inevitably happen inside our building i think it would be rather weird if "new york times" opinion department was entirelies insulated from the anger and tension that's there honestly i have agreed admir for our outgoing head of opinion, and a.g. salts burger our publisher i believe are all passionately implied to expressing a broke broad range of views, perspectives from the right as well as the left, and from every kind of diverse walk of life. i still believe