Times opinion editor: Bret Stephens column was edited

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Source: Politico

New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet says that a controversial column advancing a race-based theory of “Jewish genius” was fully edited and scrutinized prior to publication.

“All our columns are fact-checked and edited,” he said in a statement to POLITICO.

Bennet did not discuss specifically how references to claims about Ashkenazi Jews having superior intelligence made it through the Times’s editing process, which has been called into question since the publication of Bret Stephens’s much-criticized column and the subsequent addition of an editor’s note.

The Times has historically given significant autonomy to its editorial-page staff columnists so as not to stifle those writers’ views or voice. But that tradition has been slowly changing, as editors apply more scrutiny to the columnists, though there is some inconsistency in how much editing each individual columnist receives.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/03/bret-stephens-new-york-times-column-093596

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