Article originally appeared on thepostmillennial.com.
On Monday, Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz claimed that her former employer, the New York Times , only allowed those on its payroll to espouse “right wing opinions.”She cited opposition to online harassment and doxxing as a “left wing opinions,” suggesting that she had been barred from speaking out about the topics during her time working at the iconic media company.
“Anyone who’s worked as a journalist at the NYT knows that journalists there are absolutely allowed to loudly espouse political opinions, you just have to espouse the *right* political opinions,” Lorenz wrote in a post on Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads app. “Right wing opinions are fine, left wing opinions are not.”
She went on to claim that during her time there, she “wasn’t allowed to express the ‘opinion’ that online harassment was a bad thing, in the midst of having my entire family harassed and …
She went on to claim that during her time there, she “wasn’t allowed to express the ‘opinion’ that online harassment was a bad thing, in the midst of having my entire family harassed and doxxed,” and “also once had to delete a tweet where I said I don’t like living in America lol.”
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